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Recent Cronkite graduate Athena Ankrah won a 2023 national student Edward R. Murrow Award in the Audio Feature Reporting category for a story highlighting the challenges encountered by Black farmers. Ankrah’s podcast, “Black farmers concerned about new loan program,” delved into the impact of the 2021 American Rescue Plan for Black farmers. The plan aimed […]
Edward E. Russell, 91, of Philadelphia, retired judge in Philadelphia’s Family Court and Court of Common Pleas, longtime parliamentarian, attorney, and former adjunct professor at Temple University, died Saturday, Sept. 16, of a stroke at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden. Judge Russell ascended to the bench in 1988 and heard thousands of […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Twenty years ago, Arian Simone was a college student in Tallahassee, Florida, trying to scrape together money for a small mall-based boutique called Fabulous. “I started to notice that a lot of investors didn’t look like me,” Simone, a Black woman, tells Rolling Stone. “I made a promise to myself to not […]
From Moscow, former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden addresses a technology conference in Portugal in 2019. Snowden fled the U.S. in 2013 and revealed highly classified U.S. surveillance programs. He’s been living in Russia for the past decade, and received Russian citizenship last year. Armando Franca/AP hide caption toggle caption Armando Franca/AP From […]
Army Sgt. 1st Class Edward Allen Carter Jr. dealt with a lot of discrimination during World War II, but his determination to be part of the fight kept the pain of that at bay. His heroics in Germany in 1945 were downplayed for years, and he was even discharged unceremoniously for reasons he later […]
Two-time Woolmark Prize Winner Edward Crutchley took us to the exclusive inside of Sadler’s Wells Theatre for a monochromatic trip — the Crutchley way. Inspired by the work from illustrator Richard Breton’s The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565), the English label’s Fall/Winter 2023 range offered drama, energy and refined craftsmanship. The absence of color in […]
Edward Gustavus “Gus” Black, age 64, formally of Frierson, La was born March 14,1958 in Leesville, La. He joined his heavenly father on January 22, 2023. Gus was preceded in death by his Grandfather Leon Washington Powell and father Rudolph Edward Black. He is survived by his Wife Donna Faye Black, Mother Mona Ruth Rutledge, […]
Even among the many seismic changes that the New York art world has experienced in the past seventy years or so, the legendary gallerist Linda Goode Bryant stands out. The founder of Just Above Midtown, or JAM, the historic gallery that played host to an incredible range of artists of color from 1974 to 1986, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, the former security consultant who leaked information about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs and is still wanted by Washington on espionage charges. The decree signed by Putin covered 72 foreigners, but Snowden was the most prominent. Russia granted him asylum in 2013 after he fled […]
Edward A. Feiner, who brought style and prestige to the once shabby design of federal office buildings, overseeing the construction and renovation of agency headquarters, border stations and courthouses across the country as chief architect of the U.S. government, died July 1 at a nursing home in Falls Church, Va. He was 75. The cause […]