Parallels
Residents hold a remembrance ceremony during the 90th anniversary of a great famine known as the Holodomor, at a museum in Drohobych, Ukraine, on Saturday. Carol Guzy for NPR KYIV, Ukraine — As bells rang out at a centuries-old monastery, Ukrainians stepped out into a cold, misty night to light candles in memory of the […]
Visitors to the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide look though a book with some of the names of the 4 million or more Ukrainians who died in the 1932-33 famine. In the background is a photo of one of the victims of that period. Ievgen Afanasiev/NPR hide caption toggle caption Ievgen Afanasiev/NPR KYIV, Ukraine […]
Brittney Griner may be used as a political pawn in negotiations between Russia and the U.S., but America’s weed policies have been similarly punitive. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Of course, Brittney Griner deserves leniency, just as her lawyers . . .
Ketanji Brown Jackson closed her remarks at the White House ceremony for her Supreme Court nomination by paying tribute to Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman federal judge in U.S. history. Jackson, 51, who would make history as the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice, noted she and Motley share a coincidental connection: They […]
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