by News Decoder | 8 Jul 2016 | Africa, Discovery, Eyewitness
Landscape designer Chris Hendershot traveled to Mali in 2015 and has shared with us photos that he took while in the West African country. (All photos taken by Chris Hendershot in 2015) Landscape designer Chris Hendershot traveled to Mali in 2015 and has shared with...
by News Decoder | 27 Jun 2016 | Europe, Sport
By John Mehaffey Thugs masquerading as soccer fans have disfigured the 2016 European championships in France in an ugly reminder of the street violence that erupted in Marseille before a match between England and Tunisia at the 1998 World Cup. This year round, English...
by News Decoder | 6 Jun 2016 | Sport, United States
Muhammad Ali shattered conventions inside and outside the boxing ring, and he forever changed the relationship between sports stars and fans. Muhammad Ali at a rally against the Vietnam War, Chicago, 11 May 1967(AP Photo/Charles Harrity) This is our second story on...
by Charles Aldinger | 5 Jun 2016 | Americas, Eyewitness, Sport, United States
I covered the boxing match when Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston for his first world championship. My white shirt was speckled with Liston’s blood. Cassius Clay, later named Muhammad Ali, hits Sonny Liston in their championship fight in Miami Beach, 25 February...
by Alexandra Hawley | 26 May 2016 | Art, Student Posts, Westover School
“Society sets high expectations for beauty. We need to realize we are all beautiful in our own form.” – Photographer Alexandra Hawley — A photo essay by Alexandra Hawley — I decided to address “beauty” and the hurt that is...
by News Decoder | 12 May 2016 | Americas, Discovery, Europe, Greens Farms Academy, King's Academy, Middle East, Personal Reflections, Refugees, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, Syria, United States, Youth Voices
By Nelson Graves “We have to find a political solution, in offices and not with arms.” So said Evgenia Chatziadamido, one of four students from three continents who discussed the causes and effects of Syria’s civil war during a recent online round...
by News Decoder | 21 Apr 2016 | Discovery, Islam, Middle East
By Nelson Graves Beware misconceptions about Islam that can mar Western accounts of society and politics in Muslim-majority nations. That was the advice of Jonathan Lyons, an expert on the Islamic world, in a mini-course for students in News-Decoder’s pilot...
by John Mehaffey | 8 Apr 2016 | Americas, Sport, United States
It’s quintessentially English. But Americans are about to see a jazzed-up version of cricket, and TV companies are rubbing their hands. Carlos Braithwaite of the West Indies hits a “six” — cricket’s equivalent to a home run in baseball — and helps his team...
by Stefan Janis | 24 Mar 2016 | Culture
One of the world’s greatest concert pianists, Byron Janis, celebrates his 88th birthday today. His son recalls growing up with his father. One of the world’s greatest concert pianists, Byron Janis, celebrates his 88th birthday today. News-Decoder is...
by News Decoder | 22 Mar 2016 | Africa, Americas, Asia, Discovery, Europe, Middle East, Personal Reflections, Refugees, Syria
Our thoughts are with the victims of today’s attacks in Brussels and with their families and friends. Below is an article, updated with today’s events, that we published last November after terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Although much...