Letters and a map document the humane & racial justice movements when they were one and the same ARK, Virginia––Bus driver Alan Lemon, 59, hoped to find antiques that might be sold online in 2018 when he and a friend decided to explore the attic of his great grandfather John W. Lemon’s long abandoned and […]
Live animal markets in New York City: a cut-throat business at best
Customs change with waves of immigration NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––Escaping the Iranian Revolution with her parents at age 6, artist Sara Rahbar as an adult has produced an internationally recognized portfolio on themes often involving human and animal suffering. Yet Rahbar found herself wholly unprepared for the misery she met close to hand on […]
First conviction of animal sacrifice practitioner in 11 years
But light sentence for perp LEESBURG, Virginia––Loudoun County, Virginia general district Judge Deborah C. Welsh on August 3, 2016 convicted Santeria priestess Mercy Carrion, 43, on three counts of cruelty to animals, but suspended her sentence on condition that she take a course in how to properly sacrifice animals from Gro Mambo Danthoula Novanyon […]