Tag: United States
How Josephine Baker earned her place in the Pantheon
This Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Joséphine Baker enters the Panthéon. Forty-six years after his death, the icon of the Roaring Twenties joins the great French figures who rest in this…
massive mobilization to help Kevin Strickland, exonerated after 43 years in prison
In the United States, Kevin Strickland was exonerated and released from prison Tuesday, November 24 after having spent 43 years of his life there. But the Missouri justice system, which…
symbol of diversity, Louis Vuitton designer Virgil Abloh is dead
Virgil Abloh, the artistic director of the men’s lines of the Louis Vuitton house, died of cancer on Sunday, November 28, at the age of 41. Of Ghanaian origin, the…
Black Friday breaks sales records, mainly online
The Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States is D-Day for shopping: Black Friday. And after the peaks of the Coronavirus pandemic, 2021 broke the sales record. With our correspondent…
legendary West Side Story lyricist Stephen Sondheim dies
Stephen Sondheim, the lyricist of the legendary American musical “West Side Story”, died this Friday, November 26 at the age of 91 at his home in Roxbury, United States. His…
Wirecutter chooses Black Friday to strike
Today is Black Friday, an institution in the United States, and copied around the world, the opportunity for consumers to buy cheaper products a few weeks before the end of…
end of campaign undermined by violence in Honduras
D-2 before the general elections in Honduras. The country must notably replace its president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, re-elected in 2017 on charges of electoral fraud. Several organizations, such as the…
Belarus: a day to remember political prisoners
Published on : 11/26/2021 – 12:49 How to continue to exist, to protest, when in Belarus any dissonant expression has become impossible. Faced with repression, and its muzzling, the Belarusian…
US-Mexico border between Tijuana and San Diego reopened for tourists
Published on : 11/26/2021 – 11:36Modified : 11/26/2021 – 11:38 In Tijuana, the excitement has resumed as before the pandemic since the reopening of the American land border a few…