The Front Burner / October 30, 2023 Solidarity Between BLM and Palestine Has Deep Roots Black liberationists have long found kinship with the Palestinian cause, seeing a common desire to live free of violence. Kali Holloway Ad Policy (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) During the racial justice uprisings of 2020, multiple murals of George Floyd…
Books & the Arts / October 30, 2023 Dissolve Into Nothing The enigmatic science fiction of Djuna. The Enigmatic Science Fiction of Djuna The radical visions of South Korea’s mononymous, pseudonymous, and officially anonymous sci-fi novelist and film critic. E. Tammy Kim Ad Policy Illustration by Lily Qian. This article appears in the November 13/20,…
44 minutes ago About sharing Yahel, left, with mother Lianne, centre, and sister Noiya By Sammy Jenkins, Nathan Heath & Fiona Lamdin BBC News The parents of a British-Israeli woman killed in her home by Hamas alongside her two children say they were found “all cuddled together”. Bristol-born Lianne Sharabi, 48, and her two teenage…
Fans gather to mourn Adam Johnson, who was fatally injured by a skate blade during a match.
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49 minutes ago About sharing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance 16 years ago remains unsolved Portuguese police have apologised to the parents of Madeleine McCann for the way they handled the three-year-old’s disappearance. Madeleine went missing from a holiday complex in the Algarve in May 2007. A delegation of senior officers travelled from Lisbon to London earlier…
1 hour ago About sharing By Aoife Walsh BBC News Parts of the UK are poised for heavy rain and flooding over the next few days ahead of the arrival of Storm Ciarán later this week. Flood warnings are in place across parts of England, Scotland and Wales, while there are also yellow rain warnings…
4 hours ago About sharing Lilie James’s death has sparked conversations about women’s safety By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News On Thursday, as Australia woke to the news a body had been found inside the bathroom of an elite Sydney private school, horror rippled around the country. Police had turned up at St Andrew’s Cathedral School…
1 hour ago About sharing By Tom Odula in Nairobi & Tamasin Ford in London BBC Africa Eye Caleb Mwangi was beaten so severely at his school in Kenya after he took extra food at breakfast that he was put into an induced coma and spent 11 days in an intensive care unit. “When I…
32 minutes ago About sharing Leonie Ward says she feels “vulnerable” living in the tower block By Laurence Cawley & Simon Dedman BBC News, Essex Lone parent Leonie Ward was fast asleep in her tower block flat when a neighbour spotted a person dressed in dark clothing pushing at her window from the outside. The…