Sudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty saysSudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty says

Report accuses paramilitary force of crimes including ethnic cleansing in systemic campaign against civilians The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its seizure of El Fasher last year, Amnesty International has alleged. Many of the crimes, including murder, torture, rape, enslavement and sexual ...

‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding When the US turns 250 years old on Saturday, Shannon LaNier will be reckoning with a fundamental contradiction in its origin story – and his own. LaNier is the sixth great-grandson ...

‘It’s like being close to home’: World Cup vibes immaculate in richly diverse New York‘It’s like being close to home’: World Cup vibes immaculate in richly diverse New York

Fans of all stripes pack the bars to sing, cheer and commiserate in city where more than 3m people were born outside US Almost 200,000 Ecuadorians and Ecuadorian Americans live in New York City, and last week quite a lot of them were in a Brooklyn restaurant called El Encebollado ...

‘I thought of her as a volcano’: the triumphant art and very troubling death of Ana Mendieta‘I thought of her as a volcano’: the triumphant art and very troubling death of Ana Mendieta

Her shocking performances and stunning images made Mendieta the talk of the art world in the 1970s and 80s. Then she fell from a New York apartment block in 1985 – and her husband was charged with murder. As a major exhibition comes to London, her friends discuss her genius ...

Bennet loses bid for Colorado governor as progressives keep momentumBennet loses bid for Colorado governor as progressives keep momentum

Colorado Democrats rejected Sen. Michael Bennet’s bid for governor, nominating Attorney General Phil Weiser in the latest sign of voters’ frustration with their party in DC. There were few ideological differences between the candidates, but Weiser’s record of suing the Trump administration helped him beat the senator, whom he attacked ...

Women behind the lens: ‘My grandma dressed like a celebrity, even matching the colour of her cigarettes to her outfits’Women behind the lens: ‘My grandma dressed like a celebrity, even matching the colour of her cigarettes to her outfits’

Egyptian photographer and curator Farida Mahdy was inspired to document her grandmother’s style after finding a collection of her photos This image is a portrait of me and my grandmother, Ehsan Ouf, in her flat in Cairo. It is part of a project Grandma and the Fur Coat that I ...