On New Year’s Eve, a pair of Black couples choose our little Montrose nail salon for a session of manicures and pedicures. They all request nail art, a service that only three of us nail technicians ...
This guest essay reflects the views of Jim Smith, who worked for Newsday from 1966 to 2014. I locked myself in the bathroom of my parents' Albertson Cape Cod home and slumped to the floor. Blood ...