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May 11, 2021 Left to Right: Camila Sanz Rodriguez, Paula Durant, Oscar Munoz Franco, Gabriela Cardona, Pedro Paez, Semon Randall, Ellieanna Vicente, Sho Hashioka, Valerie Mamish. Not pictured: Clara Mbasisya, Tora Yamada, Norma Huembes, Gap (Suthasinee) Bardis, and Nodira Tursunova. Each spring, students with international ties are celebrated and honored at the annual Flag Raising Ceremony. At this year’s event, 14 students raised 13 flags, which are the most countries represented at any ceremony in the event’s history. These nations included Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Con...

Last Wednesday, the 17 March, the City of Moreland, home to one of the most historically significant Greek communities in Melbourne, held a Greek Bicentennial Day Celebration and Flag Raising Ceremony. I was honoured to be asked to give the keynote address And musing there an hour alone, I dream’d that Greece might still be free; When Lord Byron penned these immortal verses, Greece was not free. For the West, Greece was a memory, a cultural legacy into which they put whatever meaning suited their own aspirations. As Byron put it: For what is left the poet here? For Greeks a blush—for Gr...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Sunday laid a wreath on behalf of Government and the people of Ghana to commemorate the 73rd Anniversary of the February 28 Christiansburg Crossroads Shooting at the Nationalism Park, Osu, Accra.

Roy Exum: Our Flag At Iwo Jima Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum This morning marks the 76 th anniversary of the sun coming up on Mount Suribachi and, as it lit the dawn, every warrior in one of the most merciless battles in the Pacific theater could see the American flag on the crest of the 554-feet-tall hill. The battle to secure the island was perhaps the most intense fighting in World War II. Almost 7,000 Marines and Navy Seabees were killed on the heavily fortified 8-square-mile island between February 19 and March 26 in 1945 while the Japanese lost approximately ...

Photographs have such a great power to provoke thought and transmit emotion by cleverly telling stories about people in front of and behind the camera. Sometimes they portray events that were inspiring, uplifting, or even unexpected and shocking. Pulitzer Prize Award-winning photographs often have a tendency to catch the attention of spectators for their critical and challenging content as well as provoking very different reactions. Patiently waiting for the photo opportunity to present itself or having to hide the camera from angry mobs, helping to save people’s lives, or simply immortaliz...