Set in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy.
This Film is a startlingly frank look at a young boy's love affair with a Canadian soldier during the ...

While AIDS came to prominence in the 1980s, a new study published Friday says it was actually around decades before, in the 1920s.
In what an international team of scientists are calling a "perfect storm" for spreading the virus, they think its proliferation started in the city of Kinshasa, the cap...

From December 2001 to March 2002, McBrien coordinated the "United We Stand, United We Sew" project, in which volunteers sewed together a 20-foot by 30-foot American flag from 3,000-plus 4-inch by 6-inch American flags.
Each small flag represents a victim in the Sept. 11 attacks. There are also flag...

The name of Fredy Hirsch is inseparably connected with the education of children and young people in the Terezín ghetto, and finally in the "family camp“ at Birkenau. In particular, the "children's block,“ established on Hirsch's initiative in the BIIb section of the Birkenau camp, was a remarkable

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi

Volunteers are helping forgotten Dutch diarists of WWII to speak at last. Their voices, filled with anxiety, isolation and uncertainty, resonate powerfully today. Anne Frank listened in an Amsterdam attic on March 28, 1944, as the voice of the Dutch minister of education came crackling over the radi

The 2022 music video version of “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera. To mark its 20th anniversary, Aguilera shared a new video for the track last week. One would have hoped that 20 years after its release, the song’s message would not be needed as much. In this version, young people apply makeup i

Robbie Lawlor was diagnosed with HIV at 21 and became one of the youngest people to come out on Irish television. Enda McGrattan, also known as Veda, promised to keep their HIV status a secret but eventually broke free with a song. And a group of Irish and migrant women, who cannot show their faces,...

In the 2015 James Bond film, Spectre, the opening sequence features a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City. At the time, no such parade took place in Mexico City; one year later, due to the interest in the film and the government desire to promote the pre-Hispanic Mexican culture, the federal and l

Ariana Grande feels the emotion of the song during her performance at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas 5/22/2016. The 23-year-old singer started off with “Dangerous Woman” and headed into “Into You”, both from her new album. “There’s a lot of different flavors, a lot of different colors,