Innholdsfortegnelse for 6/19-6/26/2020 i Newsweek International

1966  When activist James Meredith began his March Against Fear on June 5, he intended to walk solo from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, as a way to stand up to American racism and inspire black Americans to register to vote. Newsweek reported that after he was shot and hospitalized on his second day of marching, civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael continued the march on Meredith’s behalf. On June 26, the marchers, now numbering over 15,000, arrived in Jackson. This remains the largest civil rights march in Mississippi history. 1985 On June 14, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked going from Athens to Rome by Arab gunmen, forcing the pilot to fly off course, which began “a terrifying odyssey over the Mediterranean—and a cruel hijack…

WHILE JUDD APATOW IS BEST KNOWN FOR DIRECTING COMEDIES LIKE Trainwreck and Knocked Up, his range of talent as a director encompasses drama as well, which is more than evident in his new film The King of Staten Island, available now On Demand. “It’s definitely a slightly different type of movie for me.” Loosely based on the life of Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson, it features Scott, a directionless, troubled young man trying to finally deal with the loss of his father at a young age (Davidson’s real-life firefighter father died on 9/11). “We really tried to honor the story. For the first time I wasn’t trying to compress the comedy and make every single line funny.” Although the film is fictional, Apatow says it’s some of his most honest…

“We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act.”—SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MARK ESPER “RACISM IS IGNORANCE. LOVE IS INTELLIGENCE.”—FRENCH SOCCER PLAYER PAUL POGBA “I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.”—BISHOP MARIANN BUDDE “I am a human, a father and a black man in pain and I am not the only one.” —jay-z “THAT MEANS I GOT WORK TO DO.”—Ella Jones, on being elected the first black mayor of Ferguson, Missouri “Structural racism has been a public-health crisis for much longer than the pandemic has.”—EPIDEMIOLOGIST MAIMUNA MAJUMDER “I WENT DOWN DURING…

I ACQUIRED PALMER’S BAR A couple of years ago. I just celebrated my two-year anniversary as owner, but we’ve been closed since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I woke up and had a good cry that morning. The bar is still shut down. It’s a very weird time. And then these riots started a few nights ago. It’s heartbreaking. George Floyd was a bouncer at a bar not far from here. I didn’t know him, but I know people that did know him and worked with him over the years. Everyone’s hurting. We all saw that video and had the same reaction. It was heartbreaking. But now with the riots and the looting—though I don’t often discuss race or get political—I felt I had to write a “Black Owned…

HONG KONG’S VICTORIA PARK WAS largely empty that day—unlike last year, and the year before that, and the 28 years before that. Usually on June 4th the park is thronged with crowds commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, perhaps the most infamous single atrocity committed by the Chinese Communist Party since the death of Mao Zedong nearly a half-century ago. Hong Kong and Macau—the two semi-autonomous regions of China—are the only places in the country that have been allowed to mark an event the Party has tried to scrub from the national memory: the killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pro-democracy activists by Chinese soldiers. But this year, for the first time, Hong Kong authorities refused permission for the Victoria Park event. They cited concerns about the coronavirus. For pro-democracy…

Why was the book important? You want to make sure kids do the right thing and grow up to do the right thing so their kids can do the same. That’s the message we wanted to send. It can be through baseball or outside of baseball. This is for the kids. People took care of me when I was young, and I wanted to do this for the next generations. How important were All-Star Games when you played because there’s talk nowadays about All-Stars not caring so much? I don’t see that. I enjoyed my time in All-Star Games. It was important for us to win so I wanted to play the whole game. When I came along, they told me the American League was winning every year, so we…