Month: June 2020

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Bill Cosby is allowed to appeal two key issues in his 2018 conviction on sexual assault charges. Cosby, the 82-year-old actor and comedian, is less than two years into a 3-to-10-year sentence at a prison outside Philadelphia for drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee at his

The home of Martin Luther King Jr., capital of the New South and “the city too busy to hate” is again in the spotlight of protest and change related to the country’s race relations, from Black Lives Matter to the presidential election. Recent violence will lead to grieving in a historic location Tuesday in Atlanta.

Celebrity chef José Andrés has mobilized his charity World Central Kitchen to set up camp for Kentuckians voting in today’s closely-watched primary election. “Our team is here today in Louisville to ensure that people coming to vote have food and water both while they wait and to take home with them after voting, if needed,”

Large parts of the world are emerging from months of coronavirus lockdown, but a surge in global Covid-19 cases shows that the pandemic won’t be over any time soon. Data shows global cases are rising at record levels, many of them in Latin America and Asia, in countries that never really got a grip on

Seattle’s mayor told protesters Monday “it’s time for people to go home” and leave the Capitol Hill neighborhood they have established as an autonomous zone. Demonstrators will not be removed by force, Mayor Jenny Durkan said, but the city will be working with Black-led community organizations to speak with leaders of the “Capitol Hill Organized

For the University of California, San Diego, the key to returning to some in-person education on campus during the pandemic may be testing — but not the academic kind. Beginning in the fall, the university plans to test its students, faculty and staff — roughly 65,000 people — regularly for Covid-19 on a regular basis.

It was a moment that captured national attention and revealed an important lesson about police reform. A Fort Lauderdale, Florida, policeman, facing off against a line of yelling demonstrators, sticks his finger in the face of a protester. He then turns toward a kneeling woman, her hands raised in protest. The officer suddenly lunges and

As Minneapolis recovers from nights of unrest following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died under the knee of a white police officer, damaged local businesses are finding help from a community with a unique skillset — theater production. Members of the Minneapolis theater community are leveraging their love of set