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The iced tea is flowing, and the women of Parsons High School’s class of 1969 are on a roll. A handful of them are circled up at a table in the increasingly crowded fellowship hall of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where yearbooks from 50 years ago are spread out at the front of the room and laughter.... |
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As the investigation into the fatal police shooting of Rodney Levi continues , there are expressions of anger and disbelief from those who knew him in Metepenagiag First Nation. With tears running down her face, Indigenous artist Pauline Young said: "They shot an Indian. My blood," as she pointed to an RCMP cruiser sitting in the roadway. |
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The forthcoming fall of the values of capitalism in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a recipe of progress for the Arab and Islamic worlds, and the obstruction of enlightenment and the quest to reach it are among the ideas explored in this interview with Mahmoud El-Werwary. |
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HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE. 1167 - The city of Copenhagen's official birthday, marking a dated document mentioning the city for the first time. 1215 - King John signs the Magna Carta, granting his barons more liberty, at Runnymede, England. 1381 - The three-day-old Peasants' Revolt ends in Britain with its leader Wat Tyler being killed. |
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With a shelter-in-place order in effect the last 12 weeks, I got a jump on some of the books that would have been pushed to my summer reading list. Here are a few that have jumped to the fore. When everything shut down in March, I went straight for John Kelly’s “The Great Mortality — an intimate.... |
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So indelible were the pictures that night outside the White House that Lafayette Square has come to represent Trump’s inability to meet the moment. The layers of black fencing erected to close the park and surrounding streets became Fortress White House — a physical manifestation of the president’s distance from Americans’ cries for racial justice. |
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Two new moderators - Reverend David Bruce of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and the Reverend Tom McKnight of the Methodist Church in Ireland - have been speaking to Sunday Sequence about the impact of coronavirus on their vocation. Rev Bruce said churches are "reeling with reinvention". |
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Image copyright Presbyterian Church in Ireland Image caption The Reverend David Bruce has been installed as moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. The new Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has compared racism to sectarianism in Northern Ireland and said it must be "rooted out". |
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is watching – as we were in the 18 years the groundbreaking reality series was on the air. On its 20th anniversary, and as Big Brother: Best Shows Ever launches on E4 tonight remembering some of the more iconic moments, now’s as good a time as any to check in on the winners. |
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Instead, the photo op proved calamitous. The episode caused an extraordinary breach between the commander in chief and the military. The Pentagon's top general, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley, and Defence Secretary Mark Esper, both of whom flanked Trump that day, scrambled to distance themselves from the spectacle. |
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Eithne Noonan (née Bannon), Rath, Abbeyshrule, Longford The death occurred, surrounded by her loving family at her home, in her 90th year, on Saturday, June 13 of Eithne Noonan (née Bannon), Rath, Abbeyshrule, Longford. Predeceased by her beloved husband William, brothers Bernie Joe, John P, and James and great-grandson Owen. |
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