Ezekiel Kweku

1 month ago | messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com | Ezekiel Kweku

Opinion special projects editor Times Opinion is using today's newsletter to stay on top of President Trump's moves, putting a spotlight on areas that Americans can't afford to turn away from. Ioulex for The New York Times Trump's Campus Clampdown: The Trump administration announced that it is canceling $400 million in grants and contracts with Columbia University over what it described as the university's failure to protect Jewish students during last fall's protests about Gaza.

Jan 18, 2025 | nytimes.com | Ezekiel Kweku

I'm a Black millennial, I write about politics, and I love music. Yet for reasons too complicated to puzzle through, I recently found myself in San Francisco's Orpheum Theater watching "Hamilton" for what was only the first time. It was an amazing, immersive journey into a past so distant that dramatizing it now requires elaborate stylings and gymnastic lyrics - and not just the era of our nation's founding, but the Obama era, too.

Jul 13, 2024 | pressdemocrat.com | Ezekiel Kweku

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and don’t necessarily reflect The Press Democrat editorial board’s perspective. The opinion and news sections operate separately and independently of one another.

May 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Ezekiel Kweku

A few weeks ago, as I watched the Golden State Warriors submit to a humiliating defeat by the Sacramento Kings, my main feeling was not frustration, anger or embarrassment. Rather, it was resignation: One day I will die. The Warriors' three core players - Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green - have been together since 2012. I remember watching their first playoff run end at the hands of the dynastic San Antonio Spurs machine and reveling in their unbounded potential.

Jan 5, 2022 | nytimes.com | Ezekiel Kweku