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Year: 2022

Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of early American settlers. But in 1956 it paved over Black history to make a parking lot

By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Beneath the asphalt parking lot of America’s largest living history museum, gravesites linked to one of the nation’s oldest Black churches remained hidden for decades until last year. Archaeologists in Williamsburg, Virginia, are now excavating three burials at the original location of the historic 18th century First Baptist Church, launching a

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He was shot and killed playing the sport he loved. Now this Ohio 15-year-old is one of the country’s latest victims of gun violence

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Ali Jeylani knows you shouldn’t pick favorites when it comes to family members, but of his seven siblings, he’s always had a soft spot for his younger brother, Issa. Maybe it’s their shared love of soccer, their admiration for Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo, or maybe it’s simply that the pair

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Tiffany’s sells out custom Cryptopunk ‘NFTiff’ pendants for $50,000 each

Zoe Sottile, CNN On Friday, Tiffany & Co debuted and quickly sold out a limited collection of 250 custom jewel-encrusted pendants for holders of CryptoPunks, a popular early non-fungible token collection. CryptoPunks was launched in 2017 and consists of 10,000 unique 8-bit-style generated characters stored on the Ethereum blockchain. The collection is “essentially the cave

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‘You are not a refugee.’ Roma refugees fleeing war in Ukraine say they are suffering discrimination and prejudice

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Luiza Baloh left her home in Dnipro, central Ukraine, in March. Fleeing the constant sound of explosions, she and her five children came to the Czech Republic hoping to find refuge. Instead, they found themselves behind a barbed wire fence in a repurposed immigration detention center that was, she says, dirty

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Covid lockdown strands 80,000 tourists in ‘China’s Hawaii’

By Simone McCarthy and CNN’s Beijing bureau Around 80,000 tourists are stranded in the popular resort city of Sanya on China’s tropical Hainan island after authorities announced lockdown measures to stem an outbreak of Covid-19. Public transportation was suspended and people’s movements inside the city were restricted from early Saturday morning, authorities said. Stranded tourists

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