https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210621/actor-colman-domingo-radical-love/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/OsdqnIVp/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Colman Domingo Generosity begins with the self, and Colman Domingo is so at ease that he has extra grace to spare. In a politically and emotionally precarious world, where people seem to have stopped caring for one another, those molecules of grace are like gold. “Everything I do is about radical love,” Domingo says, over a coffee at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. “It's about seeing each other. What am I doing as a creative? It's about getting people to think, maybe helping people think differently. You know, that's all I can do. The macro I can't take care of. But I can take care of the micro.” https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/OsdqnIVp.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/OsdqnIVp 210 2025-02-04T15:54:07+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210599/percival-everett-james-literary-canon/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/NAormfnp/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Percival Everett Percival Everett claims he is not as brilliant as his fans know him to be. He deeply researches the worlds in which his novels are set, yet swears that everything he learns falls out of his head as soon as each book is published. “So I’m no smarter at the end than I was at the beginning,” he says, shrugging his shoulders. Years ago, sick of his writing students asking him if they were good enough to be published, he took a class to a bookstore in Middlebury, Vt., to prove he was not unique. “Look around,” he told them. “Anyone can be published. ‘Are you good enough to make a difference?’ is the question.” https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NAormfnp.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/NAormfnp 136 2025-01-28T21:15:16+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210591/gabby-thomas-olympic-medals-plan-la2028/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/yTrdjLIM/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: What Is a Leader? TIME asks Colman Domingo, Danessa Myricks and Emily Anadu, "What Is a Leader?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/yTrdjLIM.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/yTrdjLIM 72 2025-01-31T15:09:09+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210597/emily-anadu-the-lay-out-black-joy/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GFc2J0WT/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Emily Anadu Emily Anadu arose one Saturday morning in 2020 and grabbed a dustpan and broom, ready to take on what she assumed would be a daunting task after racial-justice protests swept through New York City the night prior—cleaning her block. “This was a night where someone threw a Molotov cocktail into a police van that exploded,” says Anadu, the Brooklyn-based CEO and founder of The Lay Out, a community platform that centers Black joy. But despite all the pain and chaos just hours earlier, she says, “it was like nothing happened.” Everyone seemed to have moved on. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GFc2J0WT.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/GFc2J0WT 224 2025-01-28T20:41:03+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210611/sara-sidner-cnn-talks-breast-cancer/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jYWPoxt4/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Sara Sidner Sara Sidner, an anchor and correspondent for CNN, has reported live from war zones, political uprisings, and natural disasters. But putting herself in the headlines was far more nerve-wracking. Staring straight into the camera, Sidner announced during a January 2024 broadcast that she had been diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. She urged women—and particularly Black women, who she noted are roughly 40% more likely than white women to die from the disease—to get screened and “catch it before I did.” https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jYWPoxt4.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/jYWPoxt4 157 2025-01-30T17:18:45+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210613/tara-duncan-disney-onyx-collective/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/yTrdjLIM/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: What Is a Leader? TIME asks Colman Domingo, Danessa Myricks and Emily Anadu, "What Is a Leader?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/yTrdjLIM.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/yTrdjLIM 72 2025-01-31T15:09:09+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210615/danessa-myricks-beauty-industry-makeup/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6hfS4s60/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Who Is Your Role Model? TIME asks Danessa Myricks, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and Eugenia Millender, "Who Is Your Role Model?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6hfS4s60.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/6hfS4s60 106 2025-01-31T15:09:03+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210623/troy-millings-rashad-bilal-podcast-earn-your-leisure/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6hfS4s60/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Who Is Your Role Model? TIME asks Danessa Myricks, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and Eugenia Millender, "Who Is Your Role Model?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6hfS4s60.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/6hfS4s60 106 2025-01-31T15:09:03+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210593/eugenia-millender-health-care-for-all/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/gRh8dPbv/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: How Do You Avoid Burnout? TIME asks Elaine Welteroth, Danessa Myricks and Eugenia Millender, "How Do You Avoid Burnout?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/gRh8dPbv.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/gRh8dPbv 119 2025-01-31T15:08:57+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210607/elaine-welteroth-birthfund-maternal-health-care-midwives/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Kv0cHzUd/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Elaine Welteroth When Elaine Welteroth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would give birth in a hospital, like her mother and grandmother had. But she struggled to find a doctor who made her feel safe and comfortable, often leaving appointments in tears. After going through eight, she found an alternative: Kindred Space LA, a Black-owned birthing center staffed with midwives. “[They] completely changed my perspective on birth, on my body, on my agency, and they really changed my life,” says Welteroth, now 38. Midwives, she explains, typically spend more time with an expectant family during appointments, and take a more holistic approach, such as by asking about stress levels and work life. Research also suggests that midwifery care can reduce maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Kv0cHzUd.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Kv0cHzUd 129 2025-01-29T21:36:44+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210595/lachanze-broadway-vision-future/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/d8v8ceui/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: LaChanze When LaChanze was publicizing the play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding during the 2023 season, she approached it a little differently than most Broadway producers. Instead of relying on the traditional avenues of theatrical publicity—the New York Times, Playbill.com—LaChanze decided to go directly to the audience she wanted to reach. She drove to Harlem with a stack of flyers, going from one Black hair salon to another, inviting owners and their customers to see the show with a special discount code. Then she invited 25 salon owners to join her for dinner at the famous Harlem restaurant Melba’s to talk to them about the show. “I knew it was going to be difficult to get the women who own these salons to even know that they’re invited to this space, and to feel welcomed,” she said. “I told them, ‘We’re doing a story about your lives on Broadway.’” https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/d8v8ceui.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/d8v8ceui 224 2025-01-31T21:11:39+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210601/senator-raphael-warnock-equity-america/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/LF1DbYQm/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Raphael Warnock Every day when Sen. Raphael Warnock rushes into the gilded, fourth-floor office suite overlooking the U.S. Capitol, he has to take a moment to check if he is sleepwalking. After all, when he was born, there had been just one Black Senator elected since Reconstruction, his state of Georgia had never sent someone who looked like him to the upper chamber, and, as the 11th of 12 children born into a family of Head Start, Upward Bound, and public-housing participants, he is not your typical legislator. Plus, on the way to his suite, the first-in-his-family college grad usually walks by a statue of the namesake of the office building, an avowed segregationist from his home state. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LF1DbYQm.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/LF1DbYQm 204 2025-01-30T15:13:27+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210603/dorothy-roberts-author-cps-reform/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jsbpl1xx/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Dorothy Roberts Dorothy Roberts is an academic, 2024 MacArthur “genius” grantee, and author who is advocating for what, at first blush, seems like a really crazy idea: the abolition of child-protective services. CPS is a catchall term for the system of government agencies that step in when they deem children to be in danger, sometimes removing them from their homes. But after decades of study, Roberts, 58, has concluded that this system of what she calls “family policing” is doing far more harm than good, especially for Black families. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jsbpl1xx.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/jsbpl1xx 158 2025-01-31T21:09:11+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210631/elizabeth-yeampierre-uprose-civil-rights-environment/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6hfS4s60/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: Who Is Your Role Model? TIME asks Danessa Myricks, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and Eugenia Millender, "Who Is Your Role Model?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6hfS4s60.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/6hfS4s60 106 2025-01-31T15:09:03+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210625/rujeko-hockley-hank-willis-thomas-art-inclusivity/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/yTrdjLIM/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: What Is a Leader? TIME asks Colman Domingo, Danessa Myricks and Emily Anadu, "What Is a Leader?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/yTrdjLIM.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/yTrdjLIM 72 2025-01-31T15:09:09+00:00 no no https://time.com/collections/closers-2025/7210629/monique-couvson-grantmakers-for-girls-of-color-g4gc/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/gRh8dPbv/poster.jpg?width=720 The Closers: How Do You Avoid Burnout? TIME asks Elaine Welteroth, Danessa Myricks and Eugenia Millender, "How Do You Avoid Burnout?" https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/gRh8dPbv.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/gRh8dPbv 119 2025-01-31T15:08:57+00:00 no no https://time.com/7212675/tariffs-canada-american-state-backfired/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/rJbv1IN2/poster.jpg?width=720 Trump Imposes 25% Steel and Aluminum Tariffs in Latest Trade Escalation President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/rJbv1IN2.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/rJbv1IN2 152 2025-02-11T19:14:52+00:00 no no https://time.com/7213378/should-federal-workers-accept-trumps-buyout/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/SMkQhNDD/poster.jpg?width=720 Can He Do That? What Legal Experts Say About Trump’s Most Radical Moves The second Trump Administration has wasted little time in testing the boundaries of executive authority. While many of the President’s supporters are cheering him on, some legal experts see a constitutional crisis unfolding, as many of Trump’s moves raise urgent legal and constitutional questions that could take years to fully unravel. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SMkQhNDD.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/SMkQhNDD 213 2025-02-05T21:43:35+00:00 no no https://time.com/7208007/two-state-solution-history/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/UfzB8tiH/poster.jpg?width=720 World Leaders React to Trump Proposing U.S. Take Over Gaza, Level It and Build Resorts World leaders react to Trump proposing that the U.S. should “own” the Gaza Strip, “level the site” and develop it, explicitly calling for displacing 2 million Palestinians from their homeland as the region’s leaders struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UfzB8tiH.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/UfzB8tiH 229 2025-02-05T18:17:03+00:00 no no https://time.com/7213150/apple-cider-vinegar-scammer-shows/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/UmnFwiog/poster.jpg?width=720 Apple Cider Vinegar | Official Trailer | Netflix https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UmnFwiog.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/UmnFwiog 145 2025-02-06T17:11:39+00:00 no no https://time.com/7213488/trump-dismantle-department-of-education/ https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/SMkQhNDD/poster.jpg?width=720 Can He Do That? What Legal Experts Say About Trump’s Most Radical Moves The second Trump Administration has wasted little time in testing the boundaries of executive authority. While many of the President’s supporters are cheering him on, some legal experts see a constitutional crisis unfolding, as many of Trump’s moves raise urgent legal and constitutional questions that could take years to fully unravel. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SMkQhNDD.m3u8 https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/SMkQhNDD 213 2025-02-05T21:43:35+00:00 no no