Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Guardian Weekly

    How an author’s rape led to a racist miscarriage of justice

    Dec 10, 2021 2 minutes
    By A rchie Bland

    On 4 November 1981, five Black men in matching shirts filed into a narrow, well-lit room at a police station in Syracuse, New York, and turned to face a one-way mirror. On the other side, a 19-year-old white student stepped towards the glass, and tried to identify which of them was her rapist.

    The student, Alice Sebold, would go on to a celebrated literary career.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Guardian Weekly

    Guardian Weekly1 min readForeign Language Studies
    Puzzles
    Find the correct definition: PARISON a) offspring of equal status b) fascinator c) syllables of equal stress d) spherical mass of molten glass One short of a crowd (3) Number of letters in the number is the number (4) Entertain view of one number abo
    Guardian Weekly5 min readCrime & Violence
    ‘Suffering Double Punishment’
    The 40 sq metre apartment had everything Hamado Dipama was looking for: one bedroom, a bath and a good location in the southern German city of Augsburg. When he called to set up a viewing, however, the landlord kept asking him where he was from. “It
    Guardian Weekly5 min readAmerican Government
    Spotlight
    When student Lauren Brown first heard the commotion, including firecrackers, she assumed the sounds were coming from nearby frat houses. Then, at about four in the morning, she heard helicopters. Later, she awoke to news and footage of a violent atta

    Related