1 hour ago About sharing The painting by Giuseppe Cesari was put before pupils in the first year of high school By Ido Vock BBC News French Education Minister Gabriel Attal has visited a school where pupils refused to look at a 17th-Century painting portraying nude women. Several first-year high school students said they were…
3 minutes ago About sharing On the scene of fatal Coedely crash By Catherine Evans & Miriam Barker BBC News Three teenagers have died following a crash between a bus and an Audi A1 car, police have confirmed. Two young men aged 18, and one aged 19, were declared dead at the scene. Two other…
4 minutes ago About sharing By Lauren Turner & Tom Symonds BBC News An asylum seeker on board the Bibby Stockholm barge, which houses migrants off Dorset, has died. Several sources have told the BBC that the man who died is thought to have taken his own life. The death happened in one of the…
Culture / Books & the Arts / December 12, 2023 More Than a Natural Function The politics of birth. The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement Though it responds to a justified distrust of the medical establishment among women, it also subtly partakes of an insidious mythology. Moira Donegan Ad Policy (Corbis / Getty)…
Feature / December 12, 2023 One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter We always suspected that whatever magazines and newspapers for white folks weren’t telling us, Black newspapers and magazines would. Gene Seymour Days of yore: Workers at the Chicago Defender in the 1960s. The paper chronicled the Jim Crow era and…
Feature / December 12, 2023 Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It. A plan to build back better. John Nichols Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue, with the headline “Build Back Better.” Over the past decade, the most useful construct for explaining…
Class Notes / December 12, 2023 Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead The new biopic about the socialist organizer stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out? Adolph Reed Jr. Ad Policy Bayard Rustin at the Citywide Committee for Integration headquarters at Silcam Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York City. (Patrick A. Burns…
Deadline Poet / December 12, 2023 The Death of Henry Kissinger Calvin Trillin Ad Policy Secretary of State Henry Kissinger make a statement in the State Department briefing room after receiving the Nobel Peace prize. (Wally McNamee / Corbis / Getty Images) This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue. When somebody…
57 minutes ago Comments About sharing By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Phone, TV and broadband customers must be told about any mid-contract price rises at the point of sale and “in pounds and pence” under new plans. Telecoms regulator Ofcom said it was concerned contracts were not providing “sufficient certainty” to customers due…
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