CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

A Long Island, New York, resident was screened for novel coronavirus antibodies in Hempstead on April 18 (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Director Bong Joon-ho's film also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film The Kims live in a...

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

Pete Souza, President Barack Obama's photographer, took this photo on Presidents' Day eight years ago. Souza, born in New Bedford,...

“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written...

On The Pulse of Morning - Poem by Maya Angelou A rock, a river, a tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The...

"It seems unlikely that we will see again an artist like Adams. Younger photographers of integrity will presumably form their view of the...

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; #Poetry #ElizabethBishop

Settling at last Accounts of the soul This for the trash That paid in full

Ponyboy Curtis recites the poem to Johnny Cade while they are hiding at an old church in The Outsiders, a 1983 American coming-of-age...