Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian Dame Laura Kenny believes women athletes can struggle to get pregnant because of their lifestyle. Kenny, 31, won five gold medals and one silver across three Olympic Games at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The mum-of-two is targeting a fourth Games in Paris next year. Kenny says…
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1 hour ago About sharing Martin Lewis received a CBE last year for services to broadcasting and consumer rights By Sam Gruet Business reporter, BBC News Martin Lewis has opened up about the “horrendous” pressure he feels giving advice on personal finance. The financial journalist and “Money Saving Expert” told BBC Radio 4’s the Media…
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10 years after the Dayton agreement that officially ended the conflict, Hazira’s brother Merfin stepped on a landmine near a refugee camp and died. Hazira later framed his obituary photograph in a broken frame and tapped over it with the only tape she had: an orange safety tape with German printed on top of it. The warning, among others,…
Books & the Arts / December 13, 2023 What About Black Life? The art of everyday Black experience. Christina Sharpe and the Art of Everyday Black Life In Ordinary Notes, Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.” Omari Weekes Ad Policy The author’s mother, 1927. (Courtesy of Farrar, Straus…
Feature / December 13, 2023 How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business Once upon a time, six companies controlled the media in this country. That, it turns out, was the good old days… Thomas Schatz Illustration by Brian Stauffer. This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue, with the headline…
The Front Burner / December 13, 2023 The Invisible Victims of Anti-Black Policing Racist policing is also deadly for Black women and girls—a reality that is far too often ignored or dismissed. Kali Holloway Ad Policy (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / AP Photo) This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue, with the headline…