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Because of an editing error, an article on Friday about New Yorkers whose houses were flooded with sewage in 2019 misstated the percentages of homeownership among New Yorkers of different ethnic and racial groups in 2018. The percentages given referred to homeownership within those communities, not to homeownership in the city over all. That year, 44 percent of Asian households and 43 percent of white households owned their homes, while the same was true for just 27 percent of Black households and 17 percent of Latino households.

An article on Friday about a noose being removed from the logo of Placerville, Calif., misstated the given name of the man who discovered flecks of gold in a streambed in early 1848, touching off the California gold rush. He was James Marshall, not John Marshall.

An article on Sunday about the professor Carl L. Hart referred incorrectly to his position at Columbia University. Jennifer Manly, a professor of neuropsychology, was the first tenured African-American science professor granted tenure at Columbia, not Professor Hart.

An article on Friday about a former alt-right YouTuber misstated the name of the group that the video producer Caolan Robertson runs. It is Future Freedom, not Future of Freedom.

An article on Friday about the acquisition of the basketball player Charli Collier by the Dallas Wings misstated the first Finnish player in the W.N.B.A. It is Taru Tuukkanen, not Awak Kuier.

An article on Page 15 this weekend about play reading groups describes incorrectly the type of work that donors to the Playwrights Realm could pay to act in. They could commission new plays or pay a smaller fee to act in a previously written play.

An article on Page 46 this weekend about Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Vincent van Goghs sister-in-law, misstates the surname of an artist. He is Richard Roland Holst, not Roland-Horst.

An article on Page 30 this weekend about the use of informants in terrorism-related cases misstates the filing date of a lawsuit about the constitutionality of Communications Management Units brought by several prisoners against the Justice Department. It was 2010, not 2011.

An article on Page 19 this weekend about drying your laundry in the sun misstates Joe Wachunass position at an electric-transportation advocacy group. He is a program manager, not a program director.

One of the covers for this weekends Culture issue misspells the surname of the singer featured with Elton John. She is Rina Sawayama, not Sawayawa.

A picture caption with an article on Page 56 this weekend about friends who create together misspells the surname of a model and journalist. They are Trey Gaskin, not Gaskins.

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Corrections: April 17, 2021 - The New York Times