Sam Roberts

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

He shared an Emmy for his reporting on "Nightline" about South Africa's policy of racial segregation. The National Association of Black Journalists named him journalist of the year. Kenneth Walker, an Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting for the ABC News program "Nightline" helped bring the brutality of South Africa's racist apartheid system to the attention of the American public, propelling it onto the agenda of U.S. policymakers, died on April 11 in Washington. He was 73.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Sam Roberts

4 hours agoJOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The U.S. government has officially granted 54 Afrikaans South Africans, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers, refugee status and they are expected to land in the U.S. on Monday May 12, three sources with knowledge of the matter have told NPR. The sources did not …

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

She successfully challenged her involuntary commitment to Bellevue Hospital in 1987, setting a precedent for homeless people that remains relevant today. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Joyce Brown's New York minute lasted longer than most. A onetime secretary, Brown became homeless in 1986 and began camping on a heating grate on Second Avenue and 65th Street in Manhattan.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

Acusó a Jeffrey Epstein y a su cómplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, de reclutarla para unirse a su red depredadora y demandó al príncipe Andrés por agresión sexual. Virginia Giuffre, quien fuera víctima de la red de trata con fines sexuales de Jeffrey Epstein, y dijo que cuando era adolescente la "pasaban como un plato de fruta" a ricos y poderosos depredadores, entre ellos el príncipe Andrés del Reino Unido, murió el viernes en su granja de Australia Occidental. Tenía 41 años.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Sam Roberts

Share Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41.Ms. Giuffre died by suicide, according to a statement by the family.