Riots

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 …

Last week, Twitch announced a new feature thats already proven divisive: subscriber-only streams. True to their name, theyre like regular streams, but only people whove subscribed (with real money) to a particular streamer are able to watch them. Its an optio…

This weekend, New York City looked and felt like the LGBTQ capital of the world. Fifty years after the Stonewall Riots, Stonewall 50 and World Pride flourished in the heart and soul of the city, bringing tens of thousands of LGBTQ folks and allies from across…

We speak with curators Jaishri Abichandani and Natasha Becker about their second exhibition in the series The Ford Foundation ‘s Radical Love exhibition, housed in their new NYC gallery space, brings together a cohesive message that represents several facets …

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. One of the most enduring questions about the Stonewall riots is, Who threw the first brick? According to what has become a sort o…

Border agents at an El Paso, Texas, holding facility for illegal immigrants feared riots breaking out because of the complex's poor conditions. Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General reviewed conditions at the unnamed facility on M…