Bailar, who was the first transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team, has shared his transition journey on TV shows like 60 Minutes and The Ellen Show. .During Pride Month 2017, the International Olympic Committee Bailar profiled Schuyler in a series entitled IDENTI

This video is a photography essay remembering Mexico during the 20th Century. From JF Kennedy's visit to the capital; Mexico City to the fall of the Angel of Liberty statue after the 1957 earthquake. From the construction of the Azteca soccer stadium and the Palace of Sports for the 1968 Olympic Gam...

Since the first performance in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Island's most anticipated cultural event of the season. Fire Island Dance Festival features an eclectic mix of world-renowned and emerging dancers, dance companies and choreographers. The weekend-long festival ...

Yom Kippur 5775, is celebrate on Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Note that in the Jewish calendar, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Jews will celebrate Yom Kippur on the sunset of Friday, October 3rd,2014. It is a day of remembrance for loved ones who died.Yom Kippur (H

In Israel, history is unfolding before our eyes. Hundreds of thousands of courageous Israelis have taken to the streets in an unprecedented civil resistance movement. People are rising up against Prime Minister Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing government, who seek to push through radical legisla

Billionaire activist George Soros is one of the most influential and controversial figures of our time. Famous for betting against the Bank of England in 1992 and making a billion dollars in one day, he is maligned by ideologues on both the left and the right for daring to tackle the world’s problem

In his recent remarks to congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his countrymen and women, and of his land, in loving terms. I immediately remembered the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) set by David Nowakowsky (1848-1921), of the Brodsky Synagogue in Odessa, which evokes ...

16 climate activists teens and children are petitioning the United Nations with claims that the boy is violating children's rights by not taking action on climate change and global warming. Global climate strike leader Greta Thunberg is among the activists taking climate action against the UN. Thunb...

Fire Island Dance Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary edition July 18-20, 2014, with artistry, gravity-defying movement, romance and remembrance, raising a record-shattering $533,860 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.The festival, performed outdoors

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor on Friday and delivered a rip-roaring presentation against the “bigots” in North Carolina and their anti-LGBT bathroom bill HB 2. The speech was also historic and groundbreaking, according to the office of the U.S. House Communications Director, which