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Theres an unwritten rule about sexual assault in our society: Rape doesnt happen to men and boys. But speaking up changes that.

WBGO’s Gary Walker talks with drummer and bandleader Vince Ector about growing up in the jazz and music-rich Philadelphia area and about his album “Live at the Side Door.”

Photo by Sanjay Suchak Last night, Dave Matthews closed out their two-night run at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Like the previous evening,

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in a suicide attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22 2017.

22 people were killed in a suicide attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.

Speaking on the eve of a report into the response of emergency services into the Manchester Arena bombing, survivor Ron Blake said those in charge had got it all wrong on the night of May 22, 2017.

A report examining the emergency response to the Manchester Arena bombing - which claimed lives of York couple Angelika and Marcin Klis, and whether…

Ron was trying to help. his legs were bleeding heavily. 0n the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around johns leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour. yeah. you thought help would be soon. yeah. it just seemed to last forever. seemed to go on and on and on, and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. kept saying, "im not going to... "im not going to die?" —— "im goin...

Nothing all that time, it was embarrassing, shameful. failings by all of the emergency services meant the public had to step in, people like ron blake, himself injured, who could see that the man next to him was badly hurt. what did you notice about him? just the blood that were there — like, a trail. so i just went to see how he were. but he was talking. told me his name and all that. asked him where he were from. so, he communicated. and less than a minute of that explosion, you rang 999, di...

On the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around johns leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour. yeah. you thought help would be soon. yeah. it just seemed to last for ever. seemed to go on and on and on, and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. kept saying, "im not going to... "im not going to die?" i kept saying, "no, youre not." "youre not." and they got a barrier, a...