CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

Those sitting and socializing in the sun keep an informal watch on Portuguese villages. (Photo by dnoticias) When my son was in...

"The Problem We All Live With," a Norman Rockwell painting, depicts Ruby Bridges on her way to an all-white school in New Orleans in...

Meghan and Prince Harry at their 2018 wedding (Photo by Steve Parsons / AFP/Getty Images) The Duchess of Sussex said that there were...

“We are still not where we want to be,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in February. “We were late to authorize....

Bicycling in quiet streets during an extended lockdown COVID-19 has been in Portugal one year as the country is in the midst of a third...

My brother and I The following piece, I wrote nine years ago. I remembered it when I wrote about the mentally ill Black man, Daniel...

Daniel Prude with Rochester Police Department officers (Photo by Associated Press) My little brother is schizophrenic. For a few years,...

Daniel Prude, 41 New York State Attorney General Letitia James made an unusual move in the death of Daniel Prude, ruled a homicide by the...

Reginald Ronnell Settles, a star football player at California State University in Long Beach, was on his way to a summer job when...

I’m drowning in an alphabet soup of numbers. Drowning. Drowning. Police: Killings of Blacks Protests Convictions Weather (Unseasonable):...

The U.S. Senate acquits Donald Trump of inciting insurrection The fifth day of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s second impeachment...

If convicted, former U.S. President Donald Trump may be barred from public office (Photo by The Associated Press) The defense of former...

“What is impeachable conduct, if not this?" asked Rep. Jamie Raskin (right) yesterday. (Art by NBC News) Whether the United States Senate...

Take-over of the Capitol only one month ago (Photo: Courtesy of Wikimedia Common) Watching former President Donald J. Trump’s second...

An insurrectionist at the Capitol holding the battle flag for the Confederates during the Civil War (Photo by Reuters) Former United...

A hearse at a care home where a resident died of COVID-19 (Photo by Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP) In Portugal, cases of active COVID-19...

A volunteer in an Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine trial in Soweto, South Africa, in July 2020 (Photo by Felix Dlangamandia/Beeld/Gallo Images...

Patients at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Tel Aviv (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP) Many countries with sluggish COVID-19 vaccine rollouts...

Many cringed in fear when President Barack Obama and the First Lady left the limousine and walked the inaugural parade route for minutes...