Prince Charles Cinema The Prince Charles Cinema opened as a theatre in 1962 before becoming a cinema One of London’s most famous independent cinemas has been listed as an asset of community value (ACV). The Prince Charles Cinema, in Leicester Square, announced the news that Westminster City Council had bestowed the title months after it … Read more
President Trump issued a late-night executive order Thursday calling for an end to government dollars for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, the taxpayer-backed entity that provides funding to public media outlets the president described as “left wing propaganda.” But Trump’s ongoing effort to cut federal funding of public media outlets such as PBS and NPR … Read more
Emily Amano remembers going to TD Place to watch her soccer heroes and now she and her teammates will be the ones inspiring a whole new generation. Ottawa Rapid FC will play their inaugural match against AFC Toronto on Sunday as part of the second weekend of play for the Northern Super League. It will … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was the only Black poet in attendance. “I wasn’t,” he assures me, all these decades later. “But it felt that way. I … Read more
A few days into Donald Trump’s second term, Emily Williams, a public-health professor at the University of Washington, e-mailed a program officer at the National Institutes of Health, a division of the Health and Human Services Department. “I wanted to touch base with you in light of several recent Federal Executive Orders,” she wrote. Trump … Read more
Like the rest of the country, downtown Los Angeles saw many of its beloved establishments close their doors for good during the pandemic. Among them was 5 Star Bar, an authentic dive bar that served cheap beer, grilled simple, tasty burgers and hosted live music. Sadly, it often isn’t until after unassuming dive bars and … Read more
Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist and two-time tech company founder, is set to make history as the first person of Bahamian heritage to travel to space when she joins an all-female Blue Origin crew launching on April 14. Bowe appeared on “CBS Mornings” to discuss her preparation for the historic mission alongside co-host … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
BUDAPEST — Hungary’s governing party has proposed constitutional changes that could mean a ban on an annual march celebrating the LGBTQ community and the expulsion of citizens with dual citizenship if they are deemed to pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty. Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has repeatedly criticized LGBTQ people and pledged to … Read more
