The exterior of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, part of the New York Public Library system. Credit: John Bartlestone/nypl.orgThe Stavros Niarchos Library, or SNL, the central circulating branch of the New York Public Library, has now reopened after a very difficult pandemic year that came just as the library was undergoing a complete refurbishment, renaming…
As New York City enters its next chapter of recovery and renewal, it is critical that its social infrastructure parks, schools, public libraries and so on be as strong as possible. After more than a year of isolation, hardship and fear, we need places to gather and where learning and opportunity are readily and freely accessible.
Maltese photojournalist Darrin Zammit Lupi has won the prestigious Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award for 2021 with a series of moving images chronicling the life of his daughter, who died in January.
Describing the award for his photo essay as an “impossibly huge honour”, he said it was “deeply moving” and “extremely bitter-sweet”.
Zammit Lupi’s emotional story in pictures titled ‘The first photo I ever took of my daughter, and the last’, was recently published by Reuters.
It documents the courageous battle fought by his 15-year-old daughter Rebecca, known as Becs, against a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer during the pandemic.
NEW YORK Children’s Surgical Hospital, a new facility in Entebbe, Uganda, created through the efforts of Italian nonprofit EMERGENCY, began serving patients in April 2021. - The National Herald
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