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The U.S. government will host a two-day Defense Industrial Base Conference on December 6th – 7th to convene U.S. and Ukrainian industry and government representatives to explore opportunities for co-production and other industrial cooperation in Ukraine. The conference is part of the U.S. government’s efforts to significantly increase weapons production to support Ukraine’s fight for freedom […]
Piper Kelly and Samuel Watson won the speed climbing events at the Pan American Games to become the third and fourth American climbers to clinch a 2024 Olympic spot. Kelly, a 24-year-old from Indianapolis, earned her spot when she beat 17-year-old countrywoman Sophia Curcio in Saturday’s semifinals in Santiago, Chile. In each climbing event at […]
This article is part of The Athletic’s series celebrating UK Black History Month. You can find the full series here. Outside a cafe in Shawlands, Glasgow, there is a badly damaged mural of Pele on the wall of a poorly-lit walkway. Opposite the Brazilian great is another piece of artwork, completed three years ago — by graffiti artist and illustrator […]
Mega On the one-year anniversary of the “This Is Us” finale on NBC, some key cast members have reunited to remember the magic. Mandy Moore, who played Rebecca Pearson on the . . .
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Larry Watson, a 1974 SUNY Oswego graduate and renowned performer, will present an admission-free evening of emotional music, exploration and recollections at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6, in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre and via livestream. Titled “American Fruit With African Roots: A Black Swan Song by an Affirmative Action Baby,” the show will spotlight […]
He made history more than a century and a half ago! According to the National Records of Scotland, Andrew Watson was the first Black soccer player to play at an international level. Born in 1856 in Georgetown, Guyana . . .
Andrew Watson is one of the most important figures in football history, considered to be the first black international footballer, the first black player to captain his country, and the sport’s first black administrator. And on Tuesday, exactly 138 years after he first played for Queen’s Park, the pivotal figure – who featured for Scotland […]
Norma Moya Black was born on Marguerite Park off the Lisburn Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In her earliest memories, she recalled the 12th of July parade, during which the family put out chairs on the sidewalk to watch the marchers with their colorful banners of orange, green, and white, and pictures of William of […]
The public release of the first-ever U.S. Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent, and Respond to Atrocities, along with the 2022 Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 5 of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018, reaffirms the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to atrocity prevention as a core national security commitment and core moral responsibility […]