As opening night approached, theater directors became more and more uneasy. How would German audiences react to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Broadway hit, The Diary of Anne Frank? What would they feel about the nerve-rasping true story of the teen-age Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis for two wartime years in a cramped attic in German-occupied Amsterdam, was finally captured and killed in a concentration camp? When Germans at war’s end saw actual movies of concentration camp horrors, they greeted the films with skepticism and derision.

The Edolites For Peace and Progress, a pro-democracy group in Edo State has urged the Nigeria Police Force to remain impartial in the forthcoming gubernatorial election. Madam Adesua Odigie, the group's coordinator, emphasised the crucial role of the police in maintaining law and order without bias. "We call upon the IGP to ensure that the police act impartially and do not interfere in the political landscape of Edo State,"

Tennessee became the first state to explicitly ban drag shows in public spaces on Thursday after Gov. Bill Lee signed the provision into law hours after the measure passed in the state Senate. Drag shows have become the latest target of conservative criticism, as a slew of other anti-drag bills have been introduced in at least fourteen other states—including Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma and others. Language across the numerous bills is similar to the Tennessee bill, which prohibits “adult cabaret performances” in public places where minors could watch.

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Skateboarding is back in the Olympics for its second go-round, starting on July 27 with the men’s street competition. (In street skateboarding, competitors do tricks on stairs, rails, and ledges; the other discipline, park, primarily involves skating through bowls.)  In Tokyo, the sport’s Olympic debut was a smashing success, with hometown hero Yuto Horigome winning men’s street gold in the neighborhood where he grew up, and a trio of teens, Japan’s Momiji Nishiya (13 at the time), Rayssa Leal of Brazil (13), and Funa Nakayama of Japan (16) sweeping the podium in the women’s street event.