In lighting his own flesh on fire in a seemingly placid and sunny seaside college town where unredressed racial violence lurks beneath the surface, Thairie Ritchie bore witness to a world that is on ...

Community members brought flowers, candles, photographs and other mementos to Santa Cruz City Hall this week to unite in ...

Thairie Ritchie, a well known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 atop the Black Lives Matter mural on Center Street in downtown Santa Cruz, only a few yards from the ...

Thairie Ritchie, a well-known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the second inauguration of President Donald Trump — atop the Black ...

Thairie Ritchie, a well-known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the second inauguration of President Donald Trump — atop the Black ...

Home and Away’s Kate Ritchie has opened up about her mental health (Picture: Don Arnold/WireImage) Former Home and Away star Kate Ritchie has stepped back from her radio presenting role ...

(Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel) Hundreds of community members added flowers, candles and photographs on Sunday to an altar for healing for local civil rights activist Thairie Ritchie at ...

Hundreds of community members added flowers, candles and photographs on Sunday to an altar for healing for local civil rights activist Thairie Ritchie at the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Santa ...

More than 300 people gathered Sunday to grieve and honor Thairie Ritchie, the prominent local civil rights activist who set himself on fire Jan. 20 atop Santa Cruz's Black Lives Matter street mural.

Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres has accused Gov. Kathy Hochul of bungling oversight of New York’s early intervention program for toddlers with developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome.

With his German language skills, Gans landed at Fort Ritchie in Maryland, where he undertook a mission that he kept secret for most of his life. Gans spent some of the war on Long Island in Boston ...