The Untold Story of Breonna Taylor...11 hours ago  · icon, her silhouette a symbol of police...

C M Y K Nxxx,2020-08-30,A,001,Bs-4C,E2

Jackson Heights, Queens: 180,000people, 167 languages. PAGE 5

ARTS & LEISURE

Walking the American Dream

The urban elites in Belarus, above,were apolitical until the pandemic and ablatantly falsified election. PAGE 8

INTERNATIONAL 8-12

The Breaking Point

There’s a little bit of summer left, andwe’ve got seven ways for you to step upyour leisure game on this last unofficialweekend of the season. PAGE 5

AT HOME

Mr. Sun, Stay a While LongerIn Lafayette, La., frustration and fa-tigue have set in after storms, a pan-demic and a fatal shooting by the policethat some residents believe is beingovershadowed. PAGE 13

NATIONAL 13-23

‘We’re Hurting Right Now’

Oscar-nominated filmmakers spentyears with the subjects of “Honeyland.”Now, it’s hard to leave. PAGE 12

Movie Drama in the Balkans

President Trump, his family and hisstaunchest supporters dominatedscreen time at the convention, a graphicanalysis shows, with the party estab-lishment much less evident. PAGE 20

The Stars of the G.O.P. Show

Moises Velasquez-Manoff PAGE 4

SUNDAY REVIEW

Many young people were blindsided bythe economic crisis. These financial tipscan help them stay afloat. PAGE 4

Life Preserver for Millennials

Armed with divinity degrees, spiritualconsultants are making space for thesoul in the workplace. PAGE 1

SUNDAY BUSINESS

Businesses Get Religion

U(D547FD)v+@!,!/!$!z

Thousands of students return-ing to the Rochester Institute ofTechnology in New York thismonth are being asked to wearmasks in public, register theirhealth status online each day andelectronically log classroom visitsfor contact tracing if a coronavirusoutbreak occurs. But the mostnovel effort at the school to meas-ure and limit virus spread will re-quire little effort and come quitenaturally.

Students need only use thebathroom.

At more than 15 dormitoriesand on-campus apartment build-ings, sewage is being tested twiceweekly for genetic evidence of vi-rus shed in feces. This provides akind of early-warning system ofan outbreak, limiting the need totest every student for Covid-19. Ifthe disease is found in sewage, in-dividual tests can be administeredto identify the source.

“It’s noninvasive,” said EnidCardinal, senior adviser to thepresident for strategic planningand sustainability at R.I.T. Theschool is among a half-dozen col-leges in upstate New York adopt-ing similar technology, which wasfirst introduced by Syracuse Uni-versity. At the University of Ari-zona, officials said such tests ledto the discovery that several stu-dents in a dorm were infected.

“Wastewater,” Ms. Cardinal

quipped. “My new favorite topic.”The fall of 2020 will go down as a

period of profound experi-mentation at colleges and univer-sities transformed into hothouselaboratories. They are trying outwastewater tests, dozens ofhealth-check apps and versions ofhomegrown contact technologiesthat log student movement andexposure risk. And they are ex-perimenting with different testingmethods that might yield fasterresults and be easier to adminis-ter, such as using saliva instead ofnasal swabs.

Like small island nations withdiscrete populations, many uni-versities are using methods thatcities, states and nations oftencannot. The colleges have someauthority over relatively captive

Colleges, Yearning to Reopen, Become Labs for Covid Safety

By MATT RICHTEL

U.N.C. Charlotte’s system tosample dorms’ wastewater.

PETE KIEHART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page 5

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylorhad just done four overnight shifts at thehospital where she worked as an emer-gency room technician. To let off somesteam, she and her boyfriend, KennethWalker, planned a date night: dinner at asteakhouse, followed by a movie in bed.

Usually, they headed to his apartment,where he lived alone and she had left atoothbrush and a flat iron. But that night,they went to the small unit she shared withher younger sister, who was away on a trip.It was dark when the couple pulled into theparking lot, then closed the door to Apart-ment 4 behind them.

This was the year of big plans for the 26-year-old: Her home was brimming with

the Post-it notes and envelopes on whichshe wrote her goals. She had just bought anew car. Next on the list: buying her ownhome. And trying to have a baby with Mr.Walker. They had already chosen a name.

She fell asleep next to him just after mid-night on March 13, the movie still playing.“The last thing she said was, ‘Turn off theTV,’” he said in an interview.

From the parking lot, undercover offi-cers surveilling Ms. Taylor’s apartment be-fore a drug raid saw only the blue glow ofthe television.

When they punched in the door with abattering ram, Mr. Walker, fearing an in-truder, reached for his gun and let off oneshot, wounding an officer. He and anotherofficer returned fire, while a third began

blindly shooting through Ms. Taylor’s win-dow and patio door. Bullets ripped throughnearly every room in her apartment, theninto two adjoining ones. They slicedthrough a soap dish, a chair and a table andshattered a sliding-glass door.

Ms. Taylor, struck five times, bled out onthe floor.

Breonna Taylor has since become anicon, her silhouette a symbol of police vio-lence and racial injustice. Michelle Obamaand Kamala Harris spoke her name duringtheir speeches at the Democratic conven-tion. Oprah Winfrey ceded the cover of hermagazine for the first time to feature theyoung Black woman, and paid for bill-boards with her image across Louisville.

A tribute to Breonna Taylor in Washington Square Park in Manhattan in June during a march against racism and police brutality.TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Untold Story of Breonna TaylorHer Life Was Changing. Then the Police Came to Her Door.

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

Continued on Page 16

WASHINGTON — MarilynCortez, a retired cafeteria workerin Houston with no health insur-ance, spent much of July in thehospital with Covid-19. When shefinally returned home, she re-ceived a $36,000 bill that com-pounded the stress of her illness.

Then someone from the hospi-tal, Houston Methodist, called andtold her not to worry — PresidentTrump had paid it.

But then another bill arrived,for twice as much.

Ms. Cortez’s care is supposed tobe covered under a program Mr.Trump announced this spring asthe coronavirus pandemic wastaking hold — a time when mil-lions of people were losing theirhealth insurance and the adminis-tration was doubling down on try-ing to dismantle the AffordableCare Act, the law that had ex-panded coverage to more than 20million people.

“This should alleviate any con-cern uninsured Americans mayhave about seeking the coro-navirus treatment,” Mr. Trumpsaid in April about the program,which is supposed to cover testingand treatment for uninsured peo-ple with Covid-19, using moneyfrom the federal coronavirus reliefpackage passed by Congress.

The program has drawn littleattention since, but a review byThe New York Times of paymentsmade through it, as well as inter-views with hospital executives,patients and health policy re-searchers who have examined thepayments, suggests the quicklyconcocted plan has not lived up toits promise. It has caused confu-sion at participating hospitals,which in some cases have mistak-enly billed patients like Ms. Cortezwho should be covered by it. Few

FOR UNINSURED,RELIEF PROGRAMIS FALLING SHORT

COVID-19 BILLS PILING UP

Murky Rules, Backlogsand Mistakes Add to

Patients’ Anxiety

By ABBY GOODNOUGH

Continued on Page 6

The Republican convention lastweek marked an extraordinary ef-fort to recast President Trump’simage on issues of race and gen-der, with the party stretching tofind African-Americans whowould testify that Mr. Trump is notracist, and lining up women to de-scribe him as sensitive and empa-thetic — qualities he rarely dis-plays in public.

This vouching for Mr. Trump, ashe was nominated for a secondterm, was without precedent.Never before has a convention byeither major party felt compelledto call such a diverse array ofspeakers to defend the characterof a sitting president.

And it was done with a crucialpolitical goal in mind: making a di-visive leader appear more palat-able to white moderate voters,who have turned against theTrump-led G.O.P. in recent elec-tions, while also trying to peelaway some nonwhite voters fromJoseph R. Biden Jr., the Democrat-ic nominee.

Some polls indicate that Mr.Trump has made slight gainsamong minority voters over thepast three years. A shift of even asliver of voters toward him — or astrategy that dampens minorityturnout by demonizing Mr. Bidenand presenting Mr. Trump as ac-ceptable — could make a differ-ence in critical states like NorthCarolina and Arizona.

“Many on the other side love toincite division by claiming thatPresident Trump is a racist,” BenCarson, the housing secretary andthe only African-American in thecabinet, said at the convention onThursday night, shortly beforeMr. Trump delivered his accept-ance speech. “They could not bemore wrong.”

Herschel Walker, a former foot-ball star and longtime friend of thepresident’s, said he was offendedthat anyone might hold that nega-tive view of Mr. Trump. “I take itas a personal insult that people

Party StretchedTo Link TrumpWith Diversity

Intense Drive to RecastImage at Convention

By ADAM NAGOURNEYand SYDNEY EMBER

Continued on Page 19

Over three days in late July, athree-bedroom house in East Or-ange, N.J., was listed for sale for$285,000, had 97 showings, re-ceived 24 offers and went undercontract for 21 percent over thatprice.

On Long Island, six peoplemade offers on a $499,000 housein Valley Stream without seeing itin person after it was shown on aFacebook Live video. In the Hud-son Valley, a nearly three-acreproperty with a pool listed for$985,000 received four all-cashbids within a day of having 14showings.

Since the pandemic began, thesuburbs around New York City,from New Jersey to WestchesterCounty to Connecticut to Long Is-land, have been experiencingenormous demand for homes ofall prices, a surge that is unlikeany in recent memory, accordingto officials, real estate agents andresidents.

In July, there was a 44 percentincrease in home sales for the sub-urban counties surrounding thecity when compared with the pre-vious year, according to MillerSamuel Real Estate Appraisers &Consultants. The increase was 112percent in Westchester, just northof New York City, and 73 percent in

By MATTHEW HAAG

Continued on Page 15

Fleeing the CityCreates Frenzy

In the Suburbs

The young Black activists who chan-neled a nation’s outcry into a movement.

THE MAGAZINE

Galvanized by George Floyd

The problem with dignity is thatthere’s not much an actor can dowith it. Not when he’s playingJackie Robinson or ThurgoodMarshall, not when you’re the

leader of a made-upAfrican kingdom,like Wakanda.

For a performer,dignity can seemlike an anchor or avoid. What can he

show us of a baseball legend or atitan of jurisprudence that theyhadn’t previously revealed?

In playing dignity, ChadwickBoseman, who died Friday, at just43, of colon cancer, often seemedtasked to perform its burden. Butthere was always more to him inthese parts than heft. He pumpedin plenty of its opposite: lightness.In “Marshall,” instead of bearingdown on the man’s owlish bril-liance, Boseman turned the con-cept of what’s actionable intophysical action. He was light,quick, smooth, chic. He sprinkledthe truth with herbs and spices.

Amazingly, between his work asRobinson and Marshall, Bosemanalso played the great Americansuperstar James Brown in “GetOn Up.” Had any actor spent moretime in such enormous shoes in sobrief a span? (The Jackie Rob-inson film, “42,” came out in 2013;“Marshall” was four years later.)No one in the movies comes to

Infusing Lightness Into the Dignity of Kings

The actor, 43, dazzled audiences as the star of “42,” “Get On Up”and the groundbreaking film “Black Panther.” Obituary, Page 24.

MAGDALENA WOSINSKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

WESLEYMORRIS

ANAPPRAISAL

CHADWICK BOSEMAN, 1976-2020

Continued on Page 25

The Milwaukee Bucks returned to thebasketball court, and won, days afterstarting the league’s social justicemovement by refusing to play. PAGE 27

SPORTS 27-29

The N.B.A. Picks Up

The movie star and self-described“drama nerd person” was meant to hostthe MTV Video Music Awards. PAGE 1

SUNDAY STYLES

Keke Palmer’s Brazen Aplomb

Late Edition

VOL. CLXIX . . . No. 58,801 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2020

Today, partly sunny, seasonable,less humid, high 78. Tonight, partlycloudy, a bit cool, low 62. Tomorrow,mostly sunny, lower humidity, high77. Weather map is on Page 23.

$6.00