CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

Officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on the neck of handcuffed George Floyd in Minneapolis while passers-by begged him to stop before he killed the man. “Mama...

Brazilian nurses mourn 137 colleagues on May 12; 15,000 are infected. The new coronavirus is killing nurses faster in Brazil than anywhere else in the world....

"Going out fishing on my own is a lot safer than going to the grocery store," said Autumn Harry, 27, a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. Harry, whose ...

I don’t need a reason For what I became I’ve got these excuses They’re tired and lame I don’t need a pardon, no no, no no, no There’s no one left to blame I’...

Social distancing at a city park entrance in Gothenburg (By Adam Ihse/Reuters) Sweden has been misunderstood and, in some cases, downright lied about in its ...

Coimbra University is the dream of some students returning to school for exam preparation Portugal has conducted itself admirably during these months of the ...

Four months ago, a childhood friend was hospitalized with myeloma, or cancer of plasma cells. The news shocked and overwhelmed me. I felt helpless. Now, my f...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, at the U.N. in New York in September 2019 (By Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Asso...

University of Oxford researchers began testing a COVID-19 vaccine in humans. About 1,100 volunteers will take part in the trial. Half will receive the new co...

Digital contact tracing is already underway in Singapore, South Korea and China (Heiko Junge/NTB Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images) Public officials, businesses a...

A Long Island, New York, resident was screened for novel coronavirus antibodies in Hempstead on April 18 (Seth Wenig/Associated Press) I’m not fighting a war...

People, who believe they have COVID-19, wait on line to be tested in Brooklyn, New York (Photo by Telangana Today) “When America catches colds, black folks g...

Burying unclaimed victims of COVID-19 in New York's Potter's Field (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Is New York digging trenches for mass graves? The short a...

An ACT UP poster that drew attention to AIDS, which the Reagan administration ignored The last virus epidemic that touched my life was HIV, the AIDS virus, 4...

Two months ago, there was certainty. Now, the only certainty is change. Covid-19 has turned the world upside down. It has been difficult for me to accept the...

U.S. Navy Ship Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York harbor. It has 1,000 beds to relieve pressure on hospitals overwhelmed with Covid-1...

Philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the shore of Walden Pond in Massachusetts We want to breathe. All of us in Portugal, Europe, the United States, Cent...

"Big Brother is watching you." Readers will remember this chilling warning in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Depending on their age, a different political landscape m...

Director Bong Joon-ho's film also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film Parasite unfolds the textured story of a po...

John Steinbeck Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech in 1962 “The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and sp...