Riots

Last week I read an article about CRISPR, the latest tool scientists are using to edit DNA. It was a great piece well researched, beautifully written, factually accurate. It covered some of the amazing projects scientist are working on using CRISPR, like brin…

As 2019s annual Pride month commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, people from communities the world over and those who identify as LGBTQIA+ have used the occasion as a platform for their voices to be heard. One such individual is professi…

The Great Firewall of China prevents open communication over the Internet, but technologies like AirDrop do not require the Internet to function. Protesters in Hong Kong are using AirDrop to share digital fliers without fear of censorship, via Quartz. Whilst…

A month after a million people took to its streets to protest a controversial extradition bill, Hong Kong keeps being rocked by political strife. Protesters and riot police tussled again Sunday night (July 7) after a march in the Kowloon area that was aimed …

The parents of an Israeli-Ethiopian teenager - shot by an off-duty policeman - are calling for widespread police reforms. The death of Solomon Teka in Haifa last Sunday provoked riots in other Israeli cities. Bernard Smith reports from Haifa.

Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week. Image copyrightToby Melville / ReutersImage caption Cori Gauff of the US - who's just 15 - stands in disbelief, after beating former champion Venus Williams in th…

Ethnic minority Uighurs in China's far western region of Xinjiang are living through an era of unprecedented surveillance and detention that has done little to address inter-ethnic tension a decade after riots in the city of Urumqi, which left nearly 200 peop…

New York City recently hosted World Pride in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the LGBTQ uprising that started with a police raid at NYC’s Stonewall Inn bar and eventually sparked the modern movement for gay and trans rights. The p…

The showdown raises all too familiar questions about how venerable ensembles will survive, let alone thrive, in an era when classical music faces stiff financial headwinds. But the labor strife has been especially dispiriting in Baltimore, a city whose woes n…

The riot ignited from person to person because that connection was already there. That cross-pollination is very important, and so was the confidence of the 60s that we could achieve great things for humanity. Tremendous excitement came from the civil rights …