Messages of resilience and healing, mixed with the virtues of teamwork, dominated the rhetoric Monday as the mayor and city council formally launched new terms.
How the right is trying to censor critical race theory. Kimberlé Crenshaw, a pioneering legal scholar who teaches at both U.C.L.A. and Columbia, has watched with alarm the attempts to suppress an entire intellectual movement. It was Crenshaw who came up with the name “critical race theory” when organizing a workshop in 1989. (She also coined the term “intersectionality.”) “The