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Kemp Powers’ play One Night in Miami has such a perfect premise that when he hit upon it, he must have hurtled towards his notebook or his laptop, desperate to get it on the page and the stage before anyone else. The big idea was to imagine what happened on 25 February 1964, when the 22-year-old Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston in Florida to become the world heavyweight boxing champion, and then met up with three close friends, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown. All four men were black American icons. All four were at turning points in their lives. Two of them would be murdered within the next year.

La semaine dernière, l'autrice britannique de Harry Potter, J.K Rowling, a dû rendre le prix qui lui avait été remis par une association de défense des droits de l'Homme. En cause, des tweets jugés transphobes. Mais les prises de position controversées de l'autrice vont-elles faire du tort à son oeuvre?

Dans les pays en voie de développement, l'impact de la pandémie est d'autant plus cruel qu'elle entrave la lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et la malaria. A Genève, les organisations internationales tirent la sonnette d'alarme.

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is at it, again: it has chosen to republish the derogatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad which provoked a violent attack against it in 2015. The editors say it is "essential" to reprint these on the eve of the trial of the perpetrators of that violence.

En réaction au dramatique incendie qui a ravagé le camp de Moria sur l'île grecque de Lesbos, l'Allemagne a appelé mercredi les pays européens à un compromis commun pour une répartition des migrants laissés sans abris. La France a assuré qu'elle prendrait sa part de ''responsabilité''.