In March 1976, American Leonard Mack was convicted of sexual assault and holding two female victims at gunpoint. In September 2023, Mack’s wrongful conviction was finally overturned by a New York judge on his 72nd birthday with the help of the Innocence Project, an organization that uses DNA evidence to prove factual innocence.

Like many topics covered in this column, neurodiversity can be uncomfortable to talk about. Terminology is ever evolving, and preferred terminology varies greatly between individuals. Historical stigma for people who are neurodivergent makes the decision even to disclose this part of their identities a challenge. But that is part of what this column is about, having difficult conversations and understanding we are all individuals, defying easy generalizations based on our intersecting identities.

NEW YORK (AP) — In his two decades as a professional drug snitch, Jorge Hernández was a master of the double cross.

When Richard Reynolds first started gardening around London’s streets, he was so worried he might be arrested that he worked under the cover of darkness. Reynolds was one of the UK’s first modern guerrilla gardeners, a movement that encourages people to nurture and revive land they do not have the legal rights to cultivate.