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Flashpoint: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has urged the US to ‘stop the threats’ and asserting that
Greenland is not for sale and the US has no right to annex any territory of the Danish kingdom.

Selective outrage and erosion of sovereignty

Sovereignty appears vigorously defended in Europe when violated by adversaries but ignored when challenged by allies

(Graphic: John McCann)

The African mayor of New York: Mamdani’s rise is a continental summons

Mamdani’s triumph in New York declares that African youth are not insurgents at the gates; they are the vanguard of a new political architecture, says the writer

(Graphic: John McCann)

Politics’ winning formula is an unapologetic progressive agenda

In the right-wing world of Donald Trump, New York City mayoral candidate is Zohran Mamdani, an immigrant with cultural roots in East and Southern Africa

South Africans discover the world via marathons

Athletes are packing their trainers to explore foreign cities

In Vogue: Karl Lagerfeld will be the theme of this year’s Met Gala
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‘Wicked’ Kaiser Karl set to have his day at Met Gala

In May, guests will pay homage to the controversial Karl Lagerfeld, the ‘king of fashion’, at the Met Gala in New York

Legendary jazz pianist’s New York City concerts show he is unstoppable. Photo: Supplied

Abdullah Ibrahim — a tribute to a living legend

Legendary jazz pianist’s New York City concerts show he is unstoppable

Brave: Louisa Treger’s biography of Nellie Bly (inset) relates how she gets into Blackwell’s Island Asylum (pictured) to expose the mistreatment of patients.

Mad Woman: The story of a fearless journalist

Life inside a mental asylum can be pretty mad. But for female journalist Nellie Bly, it’s a reflection of her inner world

Demonstrators dressed in black veils join a rally in New York 27 February, 2000 to protest the acquittal of four white police officers in the shooting death of African immigrant Amadou Diallo (portrait). Hundreds turned out to protest.  (Doug Kanter/AFP)
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Amadou Diallo will never be forgotten

Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice

Protesters gather during a “Black Lives Matter” protest near Barclays Center on May 29, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, in outrage after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died while being arrested by a police officer in Minneapolis who pinned him to the ground with his knee. – Demonstrations are being held across the US after George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. (Angela Weiss / AFP)

Pandemic and protest: The view from New York City

The police brutality protests through the eyes of an African in Brooklyn, New York

Seeking purpose: Writer Valeria Luiselli’s experience as a translator for unaccompanied child migrants to the United States profoundly affected her, resulting in two books. (Alfredo Pelcastre/Coffee House Books)

Valeria Luiselli tells stories to shame us

Over and over again she writes about the lost children picked up on the United States border