In the Sunday Styles section of today’s New York Times, Margaret noticed the announcement that this year’s 68th Debutante Cotillion in Manhattan had included the first African-American debutante in its history, Ms. Lauren Ashley Grayson. (This story seems to appear in the only column from the Sunday styles section that’s not online.) Your print edition should have a photo in section 9, page 5.
One could take this unheralded development in a number of ways; putting the best possible light on all of them, I suppose we should congratulate the Debutante Cotillion for noticing that not all the upper-class families in Manhattan are white.
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