Aswad Thomas’ dream of pursuing a career in basketball was disrupted about a decade ago when he was shot twice in the back during an attempted armed robbery in Connecticut. In…
August 2020 saw no soca floats sliding along West London’s Ladbroke Grove. No pink feathered wings or giant plumes of headwear. The Notting Hill Carnival was canceled, like all mass gatherings in…
HOUSTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Sally strengthened off the west coast of Florida on Sunday and was poised to become a hurricane, bringing the threat of dangerous storm…
As the NFL prepares to raise the curtain on a season that promises to be unprecedented in so many ways, a new Washington Post poll reveals some striking changes on Americans’ attitudes…
In a cove in Bamfield, a coastal community in British Columbia, Canada, Louis Druehl steers his boat, The Kelp Express, a mile along the mountainous coastline. For 51 years, this boat has…
Handing out title deeds is not enough Builders are busy outside Louisa Qangiso’s house in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. The 49-year-old is putting up eight studio…
Instead of standing, kneeling or making some other gesture, the Miami Dolphins are going to “just stay inside” during the national anthem ahead of their season opener against the New…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Voters can't try to abolish an embattled Georgia police department that was wrapped in controversy even before the department oversaw the initial investigation into the fatal…
The evangelist who is usually proselytizing on the corner of 24th Street and Mission Street in San Francisco has something new to say today. “Mira al cielo!” he yells. Look at…
One only has to wish for a juicy novel about admissions to a fancy private school and it appears, in the middle of a year in which the school system…