.@mkah updated the Human Rights Council on the work of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration+Programme of Action, the blueprint to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia+intolerance.
#HRC55 https://t.co/tIptK0NjsK
At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.
You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!
Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!
I’m extremely pleased to learn of this. It is exceptionally important and urgent for a credible third party to investigate these claims!
to Study Reports of Sexual Violence in Israel During Oct. 7 Attack - The New York Times https://t.co/lNyBoaM5W8
in a mad quest for war in the north, Israel continues to escalate against Hezbollah
Hezbollah says 4 fighters killed in IDF strikes on south Lebanon targets | The Times of Israel https://t.co/DLxoi46mKU
There were once two boys who grew up in the ‘mean streets’ of New York, born one year and a few blocks apart. They weren’t from the poorest families but they were far from rich.
One of the boys was fully Italian, the other had an Italian father, and an Irish mother. Growing up, they saw ‘wiseguys’ and made men and gangsters in the street. They saw the gangs, even had friends who joined them... their early childhood was Goodfellas.
One of the friends was the son of an actress-turned-seamstress. The other was the son of a painter who had left his wife because he was gay — his mother had been an artist.
Not surprisingly, both kids inherited the ‘artistic gene’ from their parents and, from their fathers’ humble immigrant origins, a strong drive to make it in the world.
The two boys grew into men and went their separate ways. They met again in their twenties. The half-Irish one, the tallest and most handsome of the two, had gone to acting school and was now an actor known as Robert De Niro.
His friend, a creative fellow but too short for leading man status, was Martin Scorsese. Scorsese wanted to recreate the world they had grown up in and make it come to life for a young audience largely unfamiliar with it. Mean Streets. Taxi Driver. Raging Bull. The King of Comedy. Goodfellas.
Scorsese directed movies. De Niro acted in them. As it turned out, Scorsese was a damned fine director, and script writer. De Niro was a damn fine actor. They would come to define cinema in many ways, and put their mark on the genre of mafia films and organised crime drama like no one else before them, and no one else after.
Last year, the Arkansas chapter hosted a reception to celebrate the first day of International Education Week!
See more upcoming chapter events across the USA on the national event calendar: https://t.co/fGmcGMIrQQ #Fulbright#FulbrightAlumni#FulbrightChapters
@Byoussef you and @Ibishblog need to connect! Honestly, Dr. Ibish is remarkable, brilliant, and one of the greatest minds of ours times! #MENA#Politics#History and just wonderful to be around!
I promise!