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New York. Une femme, un homme et deux landeaux. Michelle Thomas, un petit bout de femme de 1m54 aux cheveux court et au rire franc, et Michael D., un acteur au teint hâlé, projettent à permière vue l’image de parents traditionnels. L’histoire que le couple s’apprête à partager avec la quarantaine de personnes présente en ce mercredi soir de fin juin dans une salle du centre pour gays et lesbiennes de New York, n’a pourtant rien de classique. Michael D. est homosexuel. Il a dépensé au total 100 000 dollars (103 000 francs) pour avoir Dimitri et Ioanna, les jumeaux mis au monde il y a trois mois par Michelle Thomas. Dallas. When Charles Chatman (photo Justin Goode) woke up from his long nightmare, the world had changed. He had never seen a cell phone. He did not know what Internet was. He did not remember how to use a knife to eat. In his cell, the African-American who had been wrongly convicted of rape in 1981 and sentenced to 99 years in prison, watched more than 9800 days slowly go by. For 27 years, the inmate was identified by a number – 324559- rather than by his name. Set of pictures taken by Jean-Cosme Delaloye on April 19 2008 during Barack Obama’s rally in Lancaster, PA. Set of pictures taken by Jean-Cosme Delaloye during the pope’s trip to New York in April 2008. Rio de Janeiro. The man holds a grenade in his hand. Around him, young men cruise around on motorbikes showing off their guns and laughing loudly. Police cars patrol the main road of Cidade de Deus 500 feet away, but here, at the end of a small street, drug dealers rule. The man with haggard eyes nervously asks questions. Don and Mingau, two rappers from the lower-class neighborhood located in the Western zone of Rio de Janeiro, reassure him and he finally lets them go through. Rio de Janeiro, 25 March 2008. Name: Rodrigo Nogueira. Age: 26 years old. Activity: journalist. Ambition: to change the image of the Rio de Janeiro slums in Brazil and in the rest of the world. In the last 7 years, the Viva Favela website has been covering the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro to try to report about other news than the ones available in mainstream media. Rodrigo Nogueira says his team gives a voice to the people of the slums. “There is so much more than violence in the favelas, he says. There is a rich culture life and incredible people in the slums”. Amarillo, Texas. His “girls” call him “Coach Tank.” In the small classroom on a cool morning of early March, Scott Tankersley, a teacher of American history and coach of the girls’ wrestling team at Caprock High School in Amarillo, stands out in his bright orange t-shirt. Last year, the big man with the moustache and the strong hands, led the girls team to victory in the 2007 state championships in Austin, the fourth straight title for the Lady Longhorns. And, he did it with hardly a word. New York / Lausanne. Dear tpinews.com visitor, thank you! Everybody at the.point.is. news agency would like to thank our media partners and our visitors for their trust. We launched the agency and the website in May 2007 to offer a different kind of news in the press, on the radio, on television and on the web. You have proved to us it was the right way to go. Thanks to you all, we are growing rapidly. tpinews.com is now an established news provider and we plan to offer you more exciting stories. Negril. Alan Lyons is a proud young man. The 29-year old Jamaican works as a lifeguard in a resort in Negril. He earns a decent living. But he needs more money to finish the house he has been building for the past three and a half years in New Hope. He therefore hustles to get another income. “Nothing illegal”, he says. No marijuana, no sex. He explains he works on construction sites, sells fruit and vegetables. He speaks about the “cycle of life” in Jamaica. “It is all about opportunities”, he says. “When you come from the ghetto, you have to make the most out of what you have or of what you can get”. Kingston. Janice has been beaten up for being a lesbian. Sitting in the small windowless room in an anonymous house in uptown Kingston, the 31-year old Jamaican shows a scar above her left eye. She says she never leaves her house without her knife nowadays. She claims she used it “a couple of times for self-defense”. When she speaks about her life as a lesbian in Jamaica, one can feel the pain in her angry eyes. She left home as a teenager because her family never approved her sexuality. : « I was 14, she says. My sisters had boyfriends, and I didn’t want any. So, I told my mom I was not going to have any boyfriend and any kids because I was different. She did not accept it ». |
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