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Chicago Tribune
11 months ago
Chicago

Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at the center of the lynching of Black teen Emmett Till, has died

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows.Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office in Louisiana.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Boston police investigating reported kidnapping of 8-year-old boy

The incident reportedly happened around 1:10 p.m. near Boston University, at 700 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Teens allegedly attack two women in downtown Dedham

Two workers at the Horse Thieves Tavern in Dedham were allegedly attacked by a group of teenagers Saturday night.
The incident happened around 11:30 p.m., according to Dedham police.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

UK police criticised for not prosecuting woman who hit black boy with paddle

Police have been strongly criticised for not prosecuting a white woman who hit a 12-year-old black boy on the forehead with a paddle so forcefully he needed hospital treatment for a deep cut.
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www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow

I wrote you a note, but I didn't send it, Lana Del Rey sings on her rangy ninth album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd a 16-song, 78-minute collection as sprawling, hypnotic and incorrigibly American as an interstate highway.Many of the tracks have the run-on, handwritten feel of letters never mailed, and this particular one, the fluttering piano ballad Sweet, is addressed to a paramour who seems unwilling to go as deep as the 37-year-old Del Rey.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Books

'Benjamin Banneker and Us' traces generations of descendants of the mathematician

When poet and creative writer Rachel Jamison Webster attended a cousin's wedding, she was surprised to discover that her family is related to famed mathematician and naturalist Benjamin Banneker.This news was unexpected, not only because of Banneker's place in history as the first Black person in the U.S. to publish an almanac and for his role in surveying the boundaries for the District of Columbia but also because the author is white.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Meghan says she was only treated like a black woman' after dating Harry

The Duchess of Sussex has told how she only began to understand what it was like to be treated like a black woman when she started dating the Duke of Sussex.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Tech industry

Drew Afualo, TikTok Star, Goes On a New York Breakfast Crawl

A bagel, an iced latte, a berry tart and a conversation with the feminist firebrand about the ups and downs of online fame.
Nytimes
2 years ago
Sports

In Art and Tennis, Watch Out for the Backhand

Jane Campion's comment about Venus and Serena Williams reminded our critic of his own night of 'botched fanciness' and racial slights.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

I'd happily rape you': Shocking cases of Met Police misogyny and racism revealed

Messages declaring I would happily rape you and jokes about domestic violence are among the alarming cases of sexism, racism and misogyny that expose the shocking state of the Metropolitan Police.The examples were uncovered in the Casey report which called for a complete overhaul of the force and a new approach to restore public trust and confidence.
The Independent
1 year ago
UK news

Mariah Carey: Growing up I didn't fit in anywhere, I've always felt like other

Singer Mariah Carey told the Duchess of Sussex she did not fit in at school and has "always felt like other" during their podcast interview.
ProFootballTalk
1 year ago
Dallas Cowboys

Based on surveillance video, Michael Irvin's lawyer calls allegations against Irvin "nonsense" - ProFootballTalk

Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin and his lawyer are on the offensive.A day after attorney Levi McCathern had the ability to watch Marriott surveillance video of the alleged interaction between Irvin and the hotel employee who accused him of wrongdoing, McCathern called the allegations " nonsense" during a press conference, via Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

McCarthy's Tacit Vote of Confidence in Santos Is a True Sign of Trumpian Times

Representative-elect George Santos speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting on November 19, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada.Scott Olson / Getty Images Every so often a story emerges of a public figure who entirely fabricated their biography, or made-up intimate details of particular parts of their life, or constructed careers by stringing together one mendacity after the next.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Clarence Page: Emmett Till's story, despite new revelations, still needs the whole truth

Like a slowly unfolding detective story, the search for justice for Emmett Till keeps taking new and painful turns - and not always toward justice.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Editorial: Emmett Till, and Mamie Till Mobley, still await justice

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago whose body washed up in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi in the summer of 1955.
Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

Woman Pleads Guilty to Tackling Black Teen at SoHo Hotel

Miya Ponsetto admitted to committing a hate crime in the 2020 episode.That element of the charge will be dropped if she abides by the law for two years.
the Guardian
2 years ago
Gender

Missy Higgins: 'Women are endlessly disappointed by the men running Australia'

ast December, Missy Higgins appeared on Q&A and reflected on a turbulent political year.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Emmett Till and his mother honored with congressional medal

WASHINGTON - The House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.The bill, which passed the Senate in January, is meant to honor Till and his mother - who had insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing - with the highest civilian honor that Congress awards.
Consequence
1 year ago
Music

Kendrick Lamar goes to therapy with Helen Mirren in "Count Me Out" music video: Watch

Kendrick Lamar has a therapy session with Helen Mirren in the new music video for "Count Me Out" from his latest album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers.The song kicks off Volume 2 of the three-part album, opening with a collage of thoughts including, "Session ten, breakthrough."The new music video does away with that exposition, instead showing Lamar attempting to plumb his thoughts with the help of Mirren's therapist.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Writing

The best recent poetry review roundup

Embark by Sean O'Brien (Picador, 10.99) O'Brien's 11th collection comes in his 70th year, and has the elegiac, rueful tone of a poet looking back on a long life and career.These are poems stuffed full of the ghostly voices and tangled detritus of the past, that watch as seemingly firm structures, concepts and lives melt and give way to inevitable entropy: There is no home or resting place.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

20 Years Later, 'Home Alone 2' Is Way Better Than The Original For One Big Reason

30 years ago, on November 15, 1992, the seemingly unnecessary sequel to managed to do the impossible - be better than the original.Although many might disagree, the truth is that Home Alone 2 has aged way better than the original for one huge reason.It's more realistic, and reminds us of a time when New York City was changing, forever.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Theater Review: Even at Three Hours, Aaron Sorkin's "To Kill a Mockingbird" Is Riveting

It's no small feat to fill the Keller Auditorium's 2,992 seats, but the cast of To Kill A Mockingbird played to a nearly packed house Tuesday night-and for good reason.
Washington Post
1 year ago
DC food

Review | 'Till' lands a gut punch with the tale of Emmett Till's murder

The image, in his casket, of the murdered Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old lynched in 1955 Mississippi after reportedly wolf-whistling at a White woman, Carolyn Bryant, is said to have added urgency to the civil rights movement.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Mississippi attorney general has no plans to prosecute accuser in Emmett Till lynching

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi's top legal official has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, an aide said Friday following revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Anti-Karen law? Berkeley ordinance would outlaw racially biased 911 calls

Berkeley could make discriminatory and racially biased 911 calls illegal in a new ordinance being considered by the City Council.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Education

Opinion | These 12 College Students Don't Like the System They're In

Describe how it feels to be in college right now.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

The woman who called 911 on a Black bird watcher wasn't wrongfully fired, judge rules

Video of Amy Cooper calling the police Monday on a man has gone viral on social media.
The man says he asked Cooper to put her dog on a leash in New York's Central Park.
BBC News
1 year ago
London

Owami Davies: Met Police rejects racial bias claims over handling of case

The Met Police has rejected claims of "racial bias" over its handling of the Owami Davies disappearance case.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Aubrey Plaza plays a fraudster in the mostly engrossing 'Emily the Criminal'

Audrey Plaza plays a an art-school dropout who resorts to credit card fraud in Emily the Criminal.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Bird-watcher wrongfully accused in Central Park video gets a bird-watching TV show

Christian Cooper watches distant shorebirds at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in California.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Bird-watcher wrongfully accused in Central Park video gets a bird-watching TV show

Christian Cooper watches distant shorebirds at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in California.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Dining

Diana Kennedy's Complicated Relationship With Mexican Cuisine

Critic's Notebook
The brilliant and opinionated author, who died on Sunday, chronicled the recipes and culinary traditions of Mexico.Our critic considers her legacy.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Cyraina Johnson-Roullier: Juneteenth must be a celebration - and a fight. Here's why.

I didn't know until I was much older that growing up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, would forever unfit me to be a Black person in America.
kvue.com
1 year ago
Austin

Police searching for suspect, victim after aggravated assault at southeast Austin apartment complex

Police said a woman ran into the apartment complex office bleeding from the head as a man chased and threatened her.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Bristol police reclassify paddle attack by white woman on black boy as racist

Police in Bristol are treating an incident in which a white woman hit a 12-year-old black boy on the forehead with paddle as racially motivated after initially deciding not to prosecute.
East Bay Times
1 year ago
Parenting

Harriette Cole: Should I say something about my friend's messy divorce?

DEAR HARRIETTE: I'm a grown child of divorced parents.The messiness of my parents' divorce definitely impacted me well into my adulthood.
I'm currently watching my friend go through a divorce.
Boston.com
2 years ago
Boston

Racially motivated East Boston crime garners probation sentence; civil rights group laments leniency

"To be in the room when the court failed to denounce this level of violence and hatred made me fear for the security of my community."
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