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Harry Belafonte, the award-winning singer, actor and civil rights activist who died today at 96, made enormous contributions to society that continue to inspire our fight for the freedom and liberation of Black and Brown people. Belafonte broke down racial barriers as the first Black man to win a Tony . . .
DeAndre Matthews was joyful and too trusting, according to his mother. February 20, 2023, 2:50 PM ET • 5 min read When DeAndre Matthews, a gay 19-year-old, went missing on Feb. 7, his mother knew something was wrong. Danielle Matthews used her SUV’s tracking function and located the vehicle on a Brooklyn, New York, street […]
He was a symbol, the face of a campaign, a subject of songs and an inspiration for an entire city. But P-22 – the most famous mountain lion in Los Angeles, and quite possibly the world – was also just a cat, and the cat had gotten very old. In the end, he was undone […]
Chinese newspapers turned their front pages black on Thursday and flags were put at half mast in mourning for the death of former president Jiang Zemin, while well-wishers laid piles of bouquets outside his childhood home. Jiang died in his home city of Shanghai just after noon on Wednesday of leukaemia and multiple organ failure, […]
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine, June 28 (Reuters) – War crimes investigators on Tuesday inspected the charred remains of a shopping mall devastated by a Russian missile strike as Ukraine mourned the victims of what the Ukrainian prosecutor general called “crimes against humanity”. A day after the attack in which at least 18 people were killed, the city […]
HOUSTON (AP) — For a brief moment in 2012, it seemed like a national stalemate over guns was breaking. Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old gunman, had forced his way into a Connecticut elementary school and massacred 26 people, mostly children, with an AR-15-style rifle. Flags flew at half-staff. A sporting goods chain suspended sales of similar […]
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