Gov. JB Pritzker/Twitter The Illinois Director of the Department of Public Health broke down in tears during Friday afternoon’s press briefing on the coronavirus in the state. While updating the public on the state’s rising numbers of COVID-19 deaths, Dr. Ngozi Ezike took a moment to herself, turning away from […]
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Remote learning has created a new audience for an old ritual: Crying in school
Sofia Quezada assists her daughters Priscilla, left, and Paulette Guerrero with virtual class from their Boyle Heights home. Tech issues on the first day of class drove 9-year-old Priscilla to tears. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) During the second week of distance learning, 6-year-old Ezra Karpf clicked the “unmute” […]
‘We have had parents crying for us to open’
Children’s summer camp provider Richard Bernstein says he has had mums and dads sobbing down the line to him. “We had parents on the phone, literally crying, asking us to open this year,” says Mr Bernstein, director of UK company XUK Camps. “It hit me pretty hard because I don’t […]
How African generosity dried a crying teacher’s tears
Congolese artist Chris Shongo paints a mural in Kinshasa. In our series of letters from African journalists, Kenyan Joseph Warungu looks at the acts of generosity helping ordinary people through desperately trying times. When Covid-19 hit Africa, the effects were devastating – but some people have been crushed more than […]
How aubergines and crying faces connected us all online
iStock Between 1998 and 1999, while the rest of the tech world was preoccupied with the Millennium bug, a 27-year-old engineer at Japanese phone company, NTT Docomo, was working on a project that would define the next era of digital communication. Although he didn’t know it yet. From his office […]