CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

The perfect lawn is the ticket to social inclusion in New York. In the author's courtyard in Portugal, grass merely peeks through...

The author's father, Clive Williams Kirkwood, is fifth from the left. He served in the early 1950s during the Korean War when his unit...

At a market in Benin, Jessica B. Harris, doyenne of African American cuisine, tells Netflix series presenter, Stephen Satterfield, that...

Starting on May 27, people 50 years of age and older can sign up online for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment, according to SAPO 24 (May...

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

His hoe set on his stooped shoulder, my neighbor’s trudge past my kitchen window pricked up my ears most mornings. Because I live on the...

The firefighters (bombeiros) station in Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra District, where vaccinations are administered upstairs COVID-19...

Boys in False River, Louisiana in July 1934 (Photo by Alan Lomax) Lomax Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division...

The firefighters (bombeiros) station in Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra District, where vaccinations are administered upstairs Those 55 and...

It was May 13, 1917, when Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia reported seeing “a lady all dressed in white, more brilliant than the sun”....

Portugal reached a daily goal of vaccinating 100,000 people on May 6. Those 60 and older can sign up online for a COVID-19 vaccination...

The author and her mother, Emanda Elizabeth Kirkwood, in July 1957 at the neighborhood Astoria Pool in Queens, New York Mami’s Hands As a...

Yellow broom is hung on doors and gates on May 1st in an ancient tradition in central Portugal that, some say, guards against hunger.

Portugal recorded no COVID19 deaths on April 25, which has not happened since August 2, 2020. In Portugal, those 65 and older can sign up...

Daniel Prude, dead at 41 in Rochester In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a police officer was found guilty last week of murdering George Floyd, a...

We won! We won! Thank God, we won! A jury found former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin guilty today on all three...

A native of Caye Caulker, Belize, talked about losing his son in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Betsy Steel) My son and I had found a...

The second and final phase of Portugal’s vaccination rollout begins on April 12 and aims to pick up the pace by, largely, using age as a...

The author gets ready to bush-cut her 1.6 hectares, or 4 acres (Photo by Betsy Steel) Dry weather and warm temperatures in central...

The River Tamar is a boundary between the English counties of Cornwall and Devon. I lived less than a mile from Horsebridge on the...