In the teaser, schoolchildren sing to Rogers on the subway and we see Tom Hanks dressed as the children’s television host on the set of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The film is loosely based on a 1998 Esquire article by Tom Junod, about the effect […]
But tree cover in US cities is shrinking. A study published last year by the US Forest Service found that we lost 36 million trees annually from urban and rural communities over a five-year period. That’s a 1% drop from 2009 to 2014. […]
On Friday, police raided a nondescript warehouse in an industrial area of the city, seizing a large cache of high-powered explosives, petrol bombs and other weapons. Three men, all in their twenties with alleged links to a pro-independence group, have been arrested in connected with […]
The summer of 1964 was both a triumphant and turbulent time for Black America. Just two weeks after the Civil Rights Act was enacted, a race riot erupted in Harlem, spreading over to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. On July 16, 1964, a white off-duty NYPD officer shot […]
Johnson notes his campaign slogan — “Deliver, Unite, Defeat” — had an unfortunate acronym, so he adds an ‘E’ at the end for “energize.” “I say to all the doubters — ‘Dude, we’re going to energize the country,” Johnson says, to an audible mix […]
Poet Danez Smith lives in Omar’s district and voted for the representative. They told CNN the poem speaks to a lot of the struggle black women face in the country, who still have to carry on with grace and style. “I think you see […]
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