Roxanne Scott, independent journalist working on a series with the NY Amsterdam News about climate change in Southeast Queens, talks about how St. Albans, a majority-Black neighborhood where residents have long complained of neglected infrastructure and services, is dealing with a pest exacerbated by climate change: mosquitos. Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, historian and author of the forthcoming Autocracy Inc. (Penguin, 2024), talks about her Atlantic cover story, “Democracy Is...
Former first lady Hillary Clinton attacked the Supreme Court on Thursday for preventing the Donald Trump criminal trials from being decided before the election.
David DePape, the illegal alien who in October 2022, entered the Napa Valley home of CA Rep. and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and bludgeoned Pelosi's husband Paul with a hammer, has been sentenced to
It’s been nearly six years since the Kavanaugh hearings rocked the nation. We got a crash course in MeToo, political tribalism and how the media treats abuse allegations against GOP figures. Current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wasn’t the only one who got dragged through the mud in that process. His high school chum Mark Judge, now 59, watched his life implode as a key part of the narrative. It wasn’t pretty, and Judge insists it wasn’t fair....
After reviewing a newspaper article, I believe the jury made a good decision to convict Ruben Gutierrez for execution. He is scheduled for execution for murdering 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison. The decisions Ruben Gutierrez made were only to target this person to get her funds. But there were complications, so they murdered her so it would not interfere with their plans. Ruben Gutierrez acknowledged being involved in the robbery but has argued DNA testing would prove his innocence that he was...
In August 1920 in Munich, a young Adolf Hitler delivered one of his first public speeches before a crowd of some 2,000 people. During his speech, which lasted nearly two hours and was interrupted nearly 60 times by cheers, Hitler touched on a theme he’d repeat in future speeches, stating he did not believe that
Locals and friends of Roșia Montana are meeting on Sunday, May 12, at 10:00 a.m., in the Central Square, for the first of the five campaigns to green the banks of the waters in the area this year. The campaign carried out together with the organizers of the Roșia Montană Marathon, is part of the […]
Environmental Protection Not A Major Issue For Majority In a survey of 38 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 21 and 44 percent of respondents said that they considered environmental protection a major issue for their country. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, respondents in Brazil were the most concerned about the environment, with those in Mexico and Colombia also rating environmental protection as more important than most countries in the...
Monday, May 13 at 10 Using his camera as a “weapon against injustice,” Chinese American photographer Corky Lee’s art is his activism. His unforgettable images of Asian American life empowered generations. This film’s intimate portrait reveals the triumphs and tragedies of the man behind the lens.
Maha Hilal Twenty years later, the unforgettable images of torture at Abu Ghraib serve as a continuous reminder of the nature of American brutality in the War on Terror that has not ended.
A three-day Sabz Journalism Environmental Reporting training workshop,
Gov. Jim Justice (R) Friday issued a proclamation calling for a Special Session of the West Virginia Legislature to convene on Sunday, May 19 at 5 p.m.