EditorialSara Porkalob, center, as the pro-slavery Edward Rutledge in “1776,” in which the performers identify as female, transgender and nonbinary, at the American Airlines Theater in New York, Sept. 15, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialThe statues of John Calhoun of South Carolina, left, the former vice president who led the pro-slavery faction in the Senate, and Charles Aycock, the former governor of Delaware and an architect of a violent coup d’état in Wilmington led by white supremacists, in the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)