Simon Tate

From May to No­vem­ber of 1961 more than 400 young ac­tivists, Black and white, board­ed in­ter­state bus­es head­ed for cities.

Af­ter los­ing his job as a line cook at a New York City restau­rant, Pablo Batista threw him­self into the stock mar­ket.

A Brazil­ian asy­lum seek­er fights to be re­unit­ed with her nine-year-old son af­ter be­ing sep­a­rat­ed when en­ter­ing the US.

When Kathrine Switzer en­tered the Boston Marathon in 1967, a race of­fi­cial tried to drag her off the course.

Rev­o­lu­tion­ary uni­ver­si­ty pro­gramme aims to change prospects of ex-pris­on­ers and pub­lic at­ti­tude to their re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.

Gov­er­nor of tiny US state says it’s time to see ad­dic­tion as health prob­lem, rather than crim­i­nal, as use soars.

Cul­tur­al shift with­in New York po­lice de­part­ment cred­it­ed for the lat­est record-low mur­der rate.

Fiordeliza Matos tells us of a com­plex iden­ti­ty on a di­vid­ed is­land.