When NASA needed a lunar spacesuit for the Apollo astronauts, they turned to the International Latex Corporation, and a cadre of women who normally sewed latex bras and girdles, to create a softer, more flexible spacesuit. Tracy Smith talked with some of the seamstresses who fashioned protective wear that would mean life or death for men in space, and with Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt who was the last man to walk, and jump, on the lunar surface. Source

A recent New York City art exhibition, now at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, explores the importance of black models as key to the development of 19th and 20th century art, through their representations by French and American artists (including Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Frederic Bazille and Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault). Nancy Giles talks with curator Denise Murrell about how the Harlem Renaissance influenced painters such as Henri Matisse, and with Brooklyn artist Mickalene Thomas about black figures in art at a time of social and political transformation. Source

The matchup in 2019 finals at the All England Club is all we could have hoped for Source

The winner advances to Friday’s big final Source

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Sal Johnson has called the Masters and PGA Championship already this year Source

In his latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Underground Railroad” recounts stories from a notorious boys’ reform school where many went missing, or never left alive Source

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The storm flooded roads and knocked out power for tens of thousands Source