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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “Let Us Descend” (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of Paramount Global), the latest novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward, is thick with ghosts, history and searing poetry, in its dramatic story about …

NEW YORK — New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov has been charged after openly carrying a firearm at a protest Thursday in Brooklyn.  The City Council is now investigating her actions.  As students gathered outside Brooklyn College Thursday for dueling protests, pro-Palestinians on one side and pro-Israelis on the other, Vernikov made her …

SAN FRANCISCO — On a good day, you might find Antonio Yepez and his family and friends cruising down the street, chrome shining in the afternoon light, as his crew rides low and slow. One Sunday in San Jose earlier this month, thousands of people took to the streets on …