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Aug 21, 2023 | nytimes.com | Kassie Bracken |Bron Moyi |Caroline Kim |Alexandra Eaton

new video loaded: ‘We’re Not Covered’: Californians Face High Bills After Rare Stormtranscripttranscript‘We’re Not Covered’: Californians Face High Bills After Rare StormA majority of Southern California households lack flood insurance. In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hilary, older residents of a mobile home community in Cathedral City must now find a way to pay for damages. Well, it hit. This was our neighborhood. There hasn’t been a storm here for 84 years.

Aug 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bron Moyi

Katy Morlas Shannon, a Louisiana historian who used property and census records to find a name for the black youth who was covered up in a 19th-century painting, in New Orleans. Thanks to her efforts and others, the once-obscure “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” now has a prominent, permanent home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Bron Moyi/The New York Times)

Aug 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Bron Moyi

Jeremy K. Simien, a Baton Rouge art collector, who rescued from obscurity “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a painting attributed to Jacques Amans, a 19th-century French portraitist of Louisiana’s elite. Simien’s efforts to research the black youth Bélizaire, who had been painted over some time around 1900, led to the restored painting landing a prominent, permanent home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Bron Moyi/The New York Times)

Aug 14, 2023 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Eaton |Caroline Kim |Elliot deBruyn |Bron Moyi

new video loaded: Exclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MettranscripttranscriptExclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MetThe Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over a 100 years, the image of an enslaved child was erased. This is his story. For over 100 years, this family portrait held a secret: a fourth figure that had been painted out.

Aug 14, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Alexandra Eaton |Caroline Kim |Elliot deBruyn |Bron Moyi

new video loaded: Exclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MettranscripttranscriptExclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MetThe Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over a 100 years, the image of an enslaved child was erased. This is his story. [CELLO PLAYING] For over 100 years, this family portrait held a secret: a fourth figure that had been painted out.