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Right now when it comes to criminaljustice reform republican governors are better on this issue than democrats. Where do you stand on the issue . Charlie crist was a republican. At this time. I know what the hell he is now. [laughter] good evening how can the National Urban league support elected officials . They can. You cannot support them you can support positions or issues but not an actual candidate is against our covered. So can you clarify how to offset that . We have the keys deal. Create the 501 c 4 that allows you to run ads. And what you could do as an individual. We can volunteer a...

Its another instance where the Cartoon Version, why were, not yours, the Cartoon Version about the Founding Fathers wanted a skidding in the way of the real world stuff that we need to get done. I have people come see me every year from the air to say we need nih fully funded. These are not not bolsheviks are communists. These are republican business people. We have to find a way to overcome it. A strong sense that this can continue. Really helpful to see anything good coming out of this meeting. Im a scientist by background. I left the lab because i was frustrated with the way researchers bei...

A sidewalk singalong, an eventful pedicab ride and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Elizabeth Becker on the Groundbreaking Impact of Kate Webb, Catherine Leroy, and Frances FitzGerald February 23, 2021 When I encountered her at the Hong Kong airport, a cigarette dangling from her free hand, I had never met anyone like Kate Webb. It was January 1973, and I was on the penultimate leg of my flight from Seattle to Cambodia to become a war correspondent. She was immediately recognizable from the news photographs: the thick-cropped brown hair, shy smile, and intense brown eyes. After I waved to her, she steered me through arrival formalities and into a dim sum restaurant with a vi...

The Dhahran Airfield and Civil Air Terminal On February 14, 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal. This meeting would have lasting implications on U.S. – Saudi relations for years to come.  Though the two nations established diplomatic relations in 1939, no American official higher than a minister in the diplomatic service had ever met the king. It wasn’t until 1942 that the State Department posted its first resident envoy in Jeddah, a career officer named James Moose, the secon...