Tag Archives: Thanksgiving

As American consumers rush to stores for Black Friday sales and frantically enter credit card numbers into online checkouts, others are marking the frenzied post-Thanksgiving sales day as “Buy Nothing Day.” International “Buy Nothing Day” falls on the day after the U.S. holiday each year. Celebrated since the 1990s, the counterpoint ...

Looking as regal as ever and singing America’s song like it’s rarely been sung, Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin started the NFL’s Thanksgiving feast with a rousing. Historically lengthy performance of the national anthem before the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions kicked off the league’s three-game holiday slate. Aretha Franklin, ...

A six-year-old autistic boy burst into tears during his school’s Thanksgiving play after a teacher snatched the microphone away to stop him saying his line. Heartbreaking phone footage captured by the boy’s parents, Kent Squires and Amanda Riddle, shows their son, Caleb, looking visibly distressed on stage. Caleb was playing a ...