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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)
BARCLAYS CENTRE

Pandemic and protest: The view from New York City

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

  • Jakki Kerubo
9 min read
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, considered the world’s largest drug trafficker since the death of Pablo Escobar, is on trial in a federal court in Brooklyn under draconian security arrangements. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
AGENCY

Witness says El Chapo tried to kill him four times

Miguel Angel ‘El Gordo’ Martinez worked for Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman in the Sinaloa cartel as a drugs big-wig in Mexico City

  • Agency
2 min read
BROOKLYN
Video

Blitz the Ambassador lights up the diaspora

Blitz’s artistic language speaks to young immigrants who are bridging the gap between the world they live in and the world from which they hail.

  • Tseliso Monaheng
5 min read
BROOKLYN

A study of belonging

Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker-winning <em>Wolf Hall</em> was up for the Costa Novel Award, but Colm T&oacute;ib&iacute;n’s <em>Brooklyn</em> got the nod.

  • Christopher Tayler
5 min read