karen: karen: they on "cityline ," we have never before seen images of blacks in victorian england. karen: hello, i am karen holmes ward. welcome to "cityline ." coming up, we welcome the cast of a musical, carole king. for the past 50 years, the -- newspaper has engaged its citizens, citizens of color in discourse surrounding politics and community issues. to highlighting boston service and beyond will be showcased this tuesday at the edwin encarnacion said. >> when the banner get started in 1965, there are a number of issues that the community feels need to be improved and solved. most of them related to segregation. you have residential segregation, you also have a considerable amount of employment segregation. and the issue that gets the most publicity in the community is the segregation in the schools. >> it was a widespread feeling that blacks did not have a voice. they didn' t have a voice in the the community in which we lived. the banner is part of a tradition. when the guardian started, there the banner took an example from the guardian. >> the bay state banner is very imp

anchor: in victorian england, an .st she raised prominence in the male-dominated brotherhood and her work is largely unrecognized but the museum is out to change that by staging the first major xhibition of her work. reporter: she was once the most beautiful woman in london, a pearl has one of her admirers described her, they painted her, adored her and respected her gifts as an artist. but tastes change and when ii went to fashion, marie all but disappeared from public view. >> marie was an active player on the same field with all the men who are much better known today. to me, that means women anywhere any time can play on the same field. reporter: putting together this exhibition took years of transatlantic work. many of her paintings had to be traced to private collections, the occur ator discovered she used water color to get her dreamy soft textures. >> remember when we went to the archives. and she was ordering it from her supplier. >> very difficult to read. >> yes, she was only working in water color on paper.

. >> reporter: the book is as much loved now as it was in victorian england. a fact that some literary critic say lies in the writing's ambiguity. >>> you can't pin them down, the theories scatters in different areas. >> reporter: stories that will surely continue to captiveate and mystify for another 150 years >>> don't forget, as ever much more on all the top stories on our website. go to aljazeera.com. >> i think that what the world will see is that the african american story is not a footnote, but probably the lens to really understand america, to this day. >> from a cancer treatment center in rwanda to an affordable housing project in new york, plus dozens of projects in development around the world, adjaye says he is

. >> reporter: the book is as much loved now as it was in victorian england. a fact that some literary say lies in the stories ambiguity. >>> they're scatter in all directions. different readsers will get different things from them >> reporter: stories that will continue to captiveate >>> as always much more on our website. tops on top stories, blogs, expert analysis. aljazeera.com. don't go anywhere because i will be back in just a moment. >>> the presidents of both russia an france announce plans for closer military cooperation in the fight against i.s.i.l. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up putin and francois hollande's meeting comes as the turkish president denies his country is colliding with i.s.i.l. over oil. the pope uses his trip to africa to deliver a strong message on climate change. we will bring you a spe

because every time you see victorian england depicted, they only look at london.ttached to all its colonies so that attachment really hasn't been explored. >> brown: what explains the fascination with sherlock holmes that continues, the books, movies, popular pbs television, movies, what explains that? >> people want to see crime detection in a way where we get it right. >> brown: where we get it right? >> where we get it correct. we identify the guys and either incarcerate or punish them or get them out of the picture, and we want the innocent people to go free, and sherlock holmes is the only person that gets it right every time. so i think we all want a sherlock in our lives in terms of the way that our police and crime detection people work, that they get it right and not understand who the criminals are and don't punish the innocent. >> brown: and he does it through mental deduction. >> through deduction and careful analysis of the facts. and sherlock is a genius, literally, at understanding the facts. and relating them in a way that he figures out what's goi

one of the most beautiful areas of the country, the gorgeous milltowns, victorian houses, deeply felt famously upright and new englandly inexplicable and unexpected has happened. >> new england is a new mecca for heroin use. >> emergency room admissions, overdose. law enforcement areas dole dealing with crimes being committed that never happened before. >> detectives are working around the clock. dealers are making a killing. >> not new york or baltimore or l.a. or chicago, but rural towns like this one are now statistically ground zero for the heroin epidemic. what the hell happened? >> the next couple years, if this heroin use trend continues to grow, it may be beyond getting a handle on. i'm a detective with the greenfield police department here, and my focus is undercover and narcotic investigations. >> this is a well-known area to us and very active. >> heroin use in the past year, its just increased to a level i've never seen any other drug come into an area. people are all going to be affected. it hasn't topped out yet. >> someone you've known, someone you went to school with, someone you work with. >> so, sun

england is a place where people go to retire. no idea why as it's not exactly nice weather. but that means a lot of the big old victorianouses are now nursing homes for the elderly. and when i was a teenager i used to have a saturday job working in one retirement home which had a cat, which the residents loved. well it seems the cat was also doing the residents some good. research has since shown that animals are good for your physical and mental health as you get older. they fight loneliness. and help keep elderly people alert. and now some british nursing homes are going a step further than your usual household pet, and opting for a farmyard animal which can also come up with breakfast. >> belle, betsy and hanni are >> belle, beery popular at thiss -- old people's home in the north of england. reporter hanni husch says she usually associates hens with breakfast eggs or chicken filet, so she wonders why people here are cuddling up to the birds. every morning at seven o'clock sharp, owen turnbull lets the hens out of their coop. then the 85-year-old does a head count. he knows every chicken by name. looking after his fe

england as it was when magna carta was drafted, 15 june 12, '15. i tried to give people an image and that image is becoming more and more one of the victorian watercolors or prints the we know. king john with a sort of frown on his face, looking at a large electricity bill, signing with a long quill of papers like this. and around in the barrons standing sternly, usually changing that, wagging his finger and off to the left, smoking of fact, i am sorry, has to be done and robyn hood kind of appearing around the tree and it is a beautiful image. it is almost a wholly false image. put that out of your mind and let me take you somewhere else. i will take you somewhere quite specific. i want to talk about, to begin with, has anyone been to herod's cathedral? i can tell you anything alike about heritage, it is like the space ship, it is very lovely, a regional in norman cathedral, borderland between wales and england. original be developed to have this sort of lovely, gothic element to it as well, one of the great cathedrals, you have a sense, how can this be made, construction techniques and so on and so on. one of the other great things is its full lot ma