On the afternoon of 12th March 2004, in a rough part of Fresno, California, officers were dispatched to a small blue house at 761 W. Hammond Ave. The call concerned a child custody dispute that had escalated into violence. Among the officers responding was Escareno. Two women, backed by a large group of supporters, were demanding the return of their young children, but the occupants of the house, many in number, refused to comply. Amid the shouting and tension stood a 300-pou

In the sun-drenched paradise of the French Riviera during the 1960s and 70s, Gigi Rizzi stood as a central figure in a world defined by...

The Troubles, a period of intense conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998, is often oversimplified as a battle between unionists wanting to remain part of the United Kingdom and nationalists seeking a united Ireland. While the question of sovereignty was important, at the heart of the unrest lay a civil rights struggle. For decades, the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland had been subjected to systematic discrimination, particularly by a Protestant elite th