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In Africa, one doesn’t need to look hard these days to spot crises. Case in point: the broad swath of the continent known as the Sahel. There, in recent years, one country after another—Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Guinea—has seen ineffectual elected governments fall to military juntas. In Africa, one doesn’t need to look hard these […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Modreck Maeresera is a happy man these days. Growing up in rural Zimbabwe, Maeresera, 49, was always told of his unique Jewish roots, which separated his Lemba community from the rest of their neighbors. Nonetheless, there was nothing tangible to make him feel any different. Without any physical distinction from their neighbors […]
“I felt like I had done all the threads I could do,” she says. “The rest of my industry finally started saying, ‘Hmm, we do have a diversity problem.’ I felt like, ‘Okay, my work is done. I moved the needle. What’s next?’” By February 2023, she started ideating what became Haute Heritage. (That wasn’t […]
Elizabeth Jennings Graham. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. “We are not going back,” is a refrain heard in this year’s election campaign. We like to think of history as steady progress forward. But during the struggle toward human rights and racial justice in the United States, we have gone back more than once. In July […]
Exploring the history and evolution of vampire lore, author Eric Nuzum traces the origins of these spooky stories, from misunderstandings of death to the sparkly pop culture icons we know today. Beyond the fangs and garlic, he digs into the deeper, everyday fears that vampires reflect. Source link
Vienna Erste Bank Open 2024: Draws, Dates, History & All You Need To Know All about the ATP 500 event in Vienna, Austria October 15, 2024 Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images The Erste Bank Open will be held from 21-27 October. By ATP Staff The Erste Bank Open is an indoor hard-court ATP 500 in Vienna, Austria. […]
Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Roger Basick. Voice 2 And I’m Marina Santee. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Click here to follow along with this program on YouTube. Voice 1 In 2025, 28 million people will […]
German wild card Justin Engel made history at the Almaty Open in Kazakhstan when he became the first player born in 2007 or later to record an ATP Tour win. Source link
Across the Daugava River from Riga’s Old Town, just a short walk from the National Library of Latvia, sits a low red brick building that used to be the locomotive repair workshop of the Latvian Railway. The building, built in the 19th century, now houses the Latvian Railway History Museum, a collection of over 1,000 […]
renOvation by ran renews 1930S APARTMENT IN SLOVAKIA Architectural practice RAN breathes new life into a 1930s apartment in Kosice, Slovakia, reworking the layout to meet today’s living standards while leaving its historical charm intact. The RE-FLAT renovation project adapts the original one-bedroom layout, which included a separate kitchen, into a two-bedroom space. The […]