Coaching and management roles in major U.S. sports leagues have mostly gone to white candidates in the past 30 years, according to our analysis.
Despite initiatives meant to increase diversity, the findings call into question the policies’ effectiveness. nyti.ms/34EyIHs
In North America’s major sports leagues in the 1990s, players were mostly people of color, but the coaches, managers and team owners were nearly all white.
The NFL once had as many as eight nonwhite head coaches: That number was half that at the beginning of this season, meaning 13% of the league’s head coaches were people of color — 74% of its players were. nyti.ms/34EyIHs
The WNBA also had a large disparity between the percentage of players and head coaches who were nonwhite.
But 25% of the league’s head coaches were Black, compared with 13.4% of the U.S. population — the best mark among the leagues we analyzed. nyti.ms/34EyIHs
Major League Soccer had a higher share of head coaches who are people of color than any of the leagues we studied: 41% in 2020. It also had the smallest disparity between head coaches and players of color. Its players are among the most diverse. nyti.ms/34EyIHs
The NBA, similar to the WNBA, has a share of Black head coaches (23%) that outpaces their share of the U.S. population (13.4%).
But as of July, about 30% of NBA head coaches identified as people of color, while 83% of players identified as nonwhite. nyti.ms/34EyIHs
Major League Baseball is by far the whitest of the sports surveyed. It has the smallest share of players (40%) and the second smallest share of managers (20%) who identified as people of color as of January 2020. nyti.ms/34EyIHs
Many U.S. pro leagues have made declarations co-opting the causes of their athletes, namely pledging to combat systemic racial injustices. But these leagues have mostly shown little progress in diversifying their leaders.
New Delhi has some of the world’s most polluted air. But how harmful it is can depend on how wealthy you are.
@dwtkns explains how The New York Times documented how much polluted air two children from different backgrounds were exposed to in one day. nyti.ms/3nNT5d1
The resulting story aimed to strike a balance between science and journalism. It used hard measurements to back up more traditional, on-the-ground reporting to take a visual look at how an often invisible threat affects two children’s lives. nyti.ms/34HQV70
The team included @dwtkns, a Times graphics editor, and involved more than a dozen journalists working closely with @gettleman, The Times’s South Asia bureau chief. nyti.ms/3nNT5d1
The number of hospitals with full or nearly full ICUs has doubled across the U.S. since the beginning of October, according to a New York Times analysis. See where the beds are filling up. nyti.ms/38yeLmW
More than 40% of U.S. hospitals with intensive care units reached average occupancy levels of 85% or higher in the week ending Dec. 17.
In early October, just a quarter of U.S. hospitals’ ICUs were that full. nyti.ms/38yeLmW
Most patients who are hospitalized for Covid-19 do not require intensive care, but those who do tend to stay awhile, meaning additional patients can overwhelm an ICU particularly fast. nyti.ms/38yeLmW
The winter solstice arrives in the depths of the pandemic. But the season of darkness also offers ancient lessons of survival, hope and renewal. nyti.ms/38l3xCg
The undeniable hardship of this winter is a reminder that for much of human history, particularly in colder climates, winter was a season simply to be survived. nyti.ms/38l3xCg
For millennia, during these months of darkness, humans have turned to rituals and stories to remind one another of hope and deeper truths. All over the world, celebrations of light dot the winter darkness like stars. nyti.ms/38l3xCg
Our analysis of Thanksgiving travel shows that many Americans stayed home and limited family gatherings — possibly avoiding a worst-case scenario for coronavirus outbreaks.
But regional and isolated outbreaks still hit many who gathered. nyti.ms/37CeUGD
In 93% of U.S. counties, people had fewer contacts this Thanksgiving than they did during the holiday last year.
But in parts of Texas and California, for example, recent surges in coronavirus cases have been attributed to activity during the holiday. nyti.ms/37CeUGD
Epidemiologists in communities in and near Los Angeles are linking current surges to families who held small gatherings during Thanksgiving.
Covid-19 hospitalizations there spiked 156% in the three weeks after the holiday. In the prior three weeks, they increased by 108%.
A New York Times analysis of voting in 28,000 precincts in more than 20 U.S cities found that while President Trump lost ground in white and Republican areas — ultimately leading to his election loss — he gained new votes in immigrant neighborhoods. nyti.ms/3rfAoB3
Areas with large populations of Latinos and residents of Asian descent, including ones with the highest numbers of immigrants, had something in common this election: a surge in turnout and a shift to the right, often a sizable one. nyti.ms/3rfAoB3
In Cook County, home to Chicago, President-elect Joe Biden won by 50 percentage points over President Trump. But we found 2,158 precincts that have shifted right since 2016 compared to the 1,508 that have shifted left. nyti.ms/3rfAoB3