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In the autumn of 2017, just a few months after Grenfell Tower had gone up in flames and Labour had robbed Theresa May of her majority, the rapper Dave (real [...]

As a scholar, Laurence Ralph specialized in youth violence. Then a relative was killed. ''Sito'' tells the story. SITO: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him, by Laurence [...]

I remember the first time I heard the words 'ethnic minority'. A family just a few doors up had made racial harassment of the one black family on the street--us--a [...]

When the United States joined the Second World War and planned to bring its troops to Britain, the British asked if they could either leave the African Americans at home [...]

Elizabeth is not alone in this split personality: Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, and Prince Charles all have to wrestle with the lives of ceremony and futility assigned by their specific roles. BOOKS & the ARTS I WAS IN BARBADOS, VISITING RELATIVES, when Princess I met Diana an Englishwoman died. Their support is important more than ever", and see Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, insult the local dignitaries. In previous seasons, Queen Elizabeth agonized over her structural obligations and personal life - but Prince Charles, who dominates the final season, doesn't. [Extracted from the article]

In the early hours of Wednesday 6 January, Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church--Martin Luther King's former congregation--was elected as one of two senators for Georgia. [...]

The election of the president is a cause agitation, but not ruin,' wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in his 19th century classic, Democracy in America (1835). 'Nevertheless,' he continued, 'one may [...]

I had been spending a fair amount of time reporting from the Caribbean when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in August 2005. Making my way to the Crescent City from [...]

With Joe Biden's resurgence, an establishment moderate is pitted against a socialist in the Democratic primaries. The battle is now between those who aspire to transform the US politically--and those [...]

CHILDREN UNDER FIREAn American CrisisBy John Woodrow Cox At the National School Safety Conference in an Orlando hotel in 2018, the Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox surveyed the wares [...]

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City Andrea Elliott Hutchinson Heinemann, 624pp, 16.99 [pounds sterling] In 2010 the Dallas Morning News won a Pulitzer prize for a [...]

'Every year approximately 12,000 white skinned Negroes disappear,' Walter White, the former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), wrote in 1947. 'People whose absence [...]

While Bill Mayblin, the novelist Andrea Levy's widower, was gathering her things for the British Library archive, he came across a red Moleskine book containing a handwritten tale that he'd [...]

As the shadow Brexit secretary, Starmer had been the face of Labour's call for a second Brexit referendum, a policy that proved deeply unpopular with Leave voters in the Midlands and northern England, where the party hemorrhaged seats. Starmer has resolved not to "oversteer" away from Corbyn's policies of taxing high-income earners and increasing public spending and nationalization, and he has eschewed gratuitous criticism of Corbyn in favor of party unity. Under ordinary circumstances, given the hole Labour is now in, Starmer would be expected to lead the party back to viability rather than government. With just a 5 percent swing, 56 seats could go to Labour - or 55 could go to the Tories, consigning Labour to the same fate as other European social democratic parties, from France to Greece, which are now effectively defunct. [Extracted from the article]

The author examines the diminished status of Great Britain. He describes several changes that have occurred in Britain, including declines in the number of schools due to low birth rates and emigration induced by its withdrawal from the European Union, in the quality of public infrastructure and in welfare payments. He also discusses the implications of the prediction that the Labour party will win for the first time in twenty years in the election due before January 28, 2025.

The article discusses failures of the gun-control movement in the U.S. and the lack of lobbying from Black American citizens in low-income communities. Topics include the #BlackLivesMatter initiative, acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin as well as fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson. Also mentioned are annual convention of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Charlotte, North Carolina as well as the Mother of Murdered Offspring organization.

In 1955, Emmett Till was fished out of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi with a bullet in his skull, an eye gouged out and his forehead crushed on one side [...]

The Critics: Books Hilary Mantel On the brink of the Second World War, before the bombers came over, the poltergeists of Britain were smashing glass and breaking the furniture. Ray Monk Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow (Allen Lane) is a very fine book indeed. And then an astonishing book about books: Edward Brooke-Hitching's The Madman's Library (Simon & Schuster). This profusely illustrated book is a bibliophile's dream: massive books, tiny books, coded books, books of fathomless eccentricity - they are all here. [Extracted from the article]

The author discusses the "I Have a Dream" speech that was delivered by the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963 in Washington, District of Columbia, arguing that the speech is misunderstood on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2013. According to the author, King advocated U.S. government involvement in the ending of economic disparities as well as segregation. The U.S. president Barack Obama is mentioned.

In the article, the author presents the empty plinth at Trafalgar Square in London, England to discuss the opinions of Britons on the relationship of public art to history, race, culture, sex, class, celebrity and royalty. Also cited are a brief history of the square, the proposed national memorial to British Admiral Horatio Nelson, and the works of artists like Mark Wallinger, Bill Woodrow, and William Wilkins.

Articles I had been spending a fair amount of time reporting from the Caribbean when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in August 2005. "We have heard the virus does not discriminate between individuals but there's no doubt there appears to be a manifest disproportionate severity of infection in BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] people and doctors. A Guardian data analysis in April revealed that a high proportion of BAME residents was found to be the strongest predictor of a high Covid-19 death rate: for every 10 per cent increase in ethnic minority residents there were 2.9 more Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 people. A group of BAME public figures have already called on the government to produce a "Covid-19 race equality strategy". [Extracted from the article]

Re "After Corbyn, After Covid" by Gary Younge [June 1/8 ]: As an ex - Labour MP and ex-minister for Europe, I would like to qualify the conventional wisdom from him that the UK chose "to leave the European Union in a referendum. But in Labour seats in the North - and I represented one for 18 years - while the totality voted for Brexit, most identifiable Labour voters did not. The fact is the Remain campaign was poorly run, and Labour voters backed Remain by the same margin as Scottish National Party voters. [Extracted from the article]

This article comments on the agenda of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the country's exit from the European Union (EU) in 2019. It explores the dispute between the British Parliament and Johnson over reaching a Brexit deal with the EU. The prime minister is criticized for being a habitual liar, citing cases wherein he lied in his job.

'So long as you have a society with lots of guns--and America has more guns per capita than any other country in the world--children will be at risk of being [...]

This article is the final one in a series looking at swing states, and swing constituencies, in the 2004 presidential election.--The Editors Driving down Michigan Avenue in Dearborn, a woman [...]

Arab immigrants and men from other countries regarded as potential sources of terrorism that do not possess green card, are registered, fingerprinted and photographed by the immigration services of the US, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The United States Justice Department's inspector general criticizes this round up, as the officials are failing to distinguish innocent immigrants and persons connected to terrorism.

The author discusses the conduct of George Zimmerman following his 2013 acquittal in the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. He looks at the debate over whether Zimmerman's actions should be considered racist. He argues that the case is the result of societal and institutional racism in the U.S., citing the stop-and-frisk police policies in New York City, "stand your ground" self-defense laws, and racial disparities in law enforcement, education, and income.