Listening from the side of the store, Angelou reflected on the Klansmen. “The ‘boys’? Those cement faces and eyes of hate that burned the clothes off you if they happened to see you lounging on the main street downtown on Saturday. Boys? It seemed youth had never happened to them. …

Tony Avelar | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brad Smith, president and chief executive officer of Intuit Inc. Intuit reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ expectations on Tuesday. Here’s how the company did compared to what Wall Street expected: EPS: 20 cents vs. 17 cents expected, according to Thomson …

Yuri Gripas | Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, U.S., August 22, 2017. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday welcomed what he called the restraint North Korea has shown recently with its nuclear weapons program and said …

Photo Sujata Mohapatra performed in the Drive East festival on Monday night. Credit Photographs by Andrea Mohin/The New York Times The child Krishna, playing, has filled his mouth with mud. Yashoda, his mother, rebukes him. He winces, and when she orders him to open his mouth, he refuses. Finally, however, …

Lucas Jackson | Reuters Snap cofounders Evan Spiegel (C) and Bobby Murphy ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with NYSE Group President Thomas Farley shortly before the company’s IPO in New York, U.S., March 2, 2017. Wall Street may finally be warming a bit to …

SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images President of China, Xi Jinping. The United States should “immediately correct its mistake” of imposing unilateral sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals to avoid damaging bilateral cooperation, a Chinese embassy spokesman said on Tuesday. Washington announced new North Korea-related sanctions on Tuesday, targeting …

It was the perhaps the grandest night of the summer at the grand Salzburg Festival, the Davos of classical music, which is known for attracting not just leading artists but also impresarios, managers, agents, recording-industry honchos, television and streaming executives, and journalists (more than 600 this year) to this small, …

Chevron chief executive officer John Watson will step down, according to The Wall Street Journal, with an official announcement expected next month. Unnamed sources told The Wall Street Journal a successor to Watson is yet to be finalized by Chevron’s board and could change. Michael Wirth — Chevron’s vice chairman …

What attractions are planned for the district? The amphitheater and music hall will be venues for music concerts by both famous and lesser-known artists and also for touring Broadway shows. The cabaret restaurant will host performances by cabaret acts from around the world and also have comedy shows. Photo Terry …

The Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration policy is contributing to a slowdown in Hispanic consumer spending, according to a recent Wall Street report. “Numerous consumer companies flagged weak spending from Hispanic consumers this earnings season,” wrote Wall Street researchers at Jefferies. “Weakness doesn’t appear to be a result of a …