Tyre Nichols Tyre Nichols: Memphis police release footage of deadly traffic stop – video The city of Memphis released graphic video footage on Friday of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, and the five police officers charged with his murder after a traffic stop turned deadly earlier this month. The disturbing video, which was released in four parts by the Memphis police department, included both body-camera and street lamp-mounted camera video. Read More...
MMAInterviewUFC fighter Themba Gorimbo: ‘I saw people die in front of me at a very young age’Donald McRaeThe Zimbabwean had $7 left before he won a career-changing fight and film star Dwayne Johnson took him under his wing
“My life is a movie, directed by God,” Themba Gorimbo says while his lunch grows cold on a winter’s day in Harare. Gorimbo is back home in Zimbabwe, taking stock of the twists and turns of his dramatic past which meant he had just $7. Read More...
STAGE AND SCREENWhy did Shakespeare make Julius Caesar's last words the Latin 'Et tu, Brute?' when Suetonius tells us they were the Greek 'Kai su, teknon?' (You too, my son?)? Plutarch, on the other hand, says that Caesar died in silence, pulling his toga over his head. It expresses a meaning that cannot be made in English - using tu implies a closeness, such as brother. p martin, nuneaton uk Read More...