African-American News Hundreds of black deaths in 1919 are being rememberedAssociated Press - By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated PressAmerica in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, and yet today, 100 years later, not many people know it even happened. It flowed in small towns like Elaine, Arkansas, in medium-size
Opinion (UK) Why are some on left and right still seduced by the ‘noble savage’ myth?The Guardian - Nick CohenThe Labour leader's embrace of reactionary elements in Judaism and Islam gives cover for the racism of the white right You learn much about people by the company they keep. The regressive left justified
Mosques Israeli archaeologists find ancient mosque in Negev desertCNN - By Amy Woodyatt, CNN(CNN) — Archaeologists working in Israel's Negev desert have discovered an ancient rural mosque, thought to be one of the earliest in the world. The mosque, which dates back to the 7th or 8th century,
Uganda Uganda to start manufacturing animal vaccines, says ministermonitor.co.ug - Eve Muganga • The gene bank will preserve animal genetic resources germplasm for 12 countries that include Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, …
Desegregation The Origins of the ‘Acting White’ ChargeThe Atlantic - John McWhorterSchool integration yielded a disturbing by-product: a psychological association between scholastic achievement and whiteness. Classroom integration wasn’t an entirely positive development for black educational
Multiculturalism The politics of white restoration has to 'go back where it came from'The GuardianThe west’s non-white Europeans will never accept supervision by angelic, loving white people, let alone evil, sleazy, racist ones “I got the ‘where are you from?’ treatment last night,” one of my PhD said,
Apollo Missions These Photos of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Will Leave You in AweEsquire - By Kelly SherinFifty years later, it still boggles the mind that humans visited the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, as hundreds of millions of people watched from television
Success The average American works more hours than a medieval peasantLadders - Jane Burnett How do current work hours stack up across various generations and time periods in history? Think you’re working less than peasants did way back in the …
News These Young Jews Are Trying To Shut Down ICE “Concentration Camps.” No, That Name That Doesn’t Bother Them.buzzfeednews.com - Julia Reinstein "My whole life I’ve been told these stories by my community," said one young Jewish activist. "Those alarms are going off in my head.” In a messy …
San Andreas The San Andreas Fault Is ‘Locked, Loaded, and Ready To Go’ – Here’s What Will Happen When It Doestheinertia.com - Matthew Blackett San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial view from 8,500 feet altitude. By Ikluft (own work) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The director of the …
Indigenous Australians Here are eight things you should know when teaching Indigenous cultureThe Guardian - Jade PearsonDo as much research as you can before you start asking Aboriginal parents for ideas The question for me all these years of sending my children into schools has always been where does Indigenous culture
Technology Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to burn up over the PacificTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyThe final hours for China’s Tiangong-2 space station are at hand, as the eight-ton piece of hardware will fall to earth, or rather sea, some time in the next 20 hours or so in a controlled deorbit maneuver.
News Dutch Supreme Court upholds Srebrenica deaths liabilityAssociated Press - By MIKE CORDER, Associated PressTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court's ruling that the Netherlands is partially liable in the deaths of some 350 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosnian Serb
Modern Art Into the Night explores the modern art of cabarets and clubs spanning the 1880s to the 1960screativeboom.com This October, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art at London's Barbican will explore the social and artistic role of cabarets, cafés and …
Science Brain interfaces aren't nearly as easy as Elon Musk makes them seemPopular Science - Nicole WetsmanWe don’t know enough about the brain for you to control your smartphone with yours. Neuralink, Elon Musk's company developing brain-machine interfaces, displayed its technology for the first time this
Culture Eight Spots in the United States Where You Can See Petroglyphssmithsonianmag.com - Jennifer Billock Finding petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (rock paintings) in the United States has never really been that hard. Petroglyph National …
World News Human landlords, avian tenants: How purple martins survivecsmonitor.com - Anna Tarnow/The Christian Science Monitor In the middle of a nondescript field of grass at the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, three large birdhouses balance …
Asteroids ‘Hazardous’ Asteroid 2006 QQ23 Might Hit Earth Next Month!Mashable - Natasha MathurAnother day, another Asteroid! It was just yesterday when the news of Asteroid 2006 QV89 not hitting our Earth in september came to light. And now NASA has already detected another massive hazardous asteroid,
Ancient Rome Travel back in time with the 'Google Maps' of Ancient RomeEuronews - By Oscar ValeroSummer is now well-underway across Europe and many of us are planning our holiday escape with travel comparison websites and web mapping services. Low-cost air carriers, fast trains, and cross-national
Extinction 'The Numbers Are Just Horrendous.' Almost 30,000 Species Face Extinction Because of Human ActivityTIME - Jasmine AguileraOverfishing, hunting and land development have pushed more species closer to extinction, according to a new report. The Red List report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found
Culture Where Was Babylon and Does It Still Exist?howstuffworks.com - Dave Roos At the height of its glory in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., the city of Babylon was the largest and wealthiest in the ancient world. Under the …
Transcontinental Railroad 'Forgotten by society' – how Chinese migrants built the transcontinental railroadThe Guardian - Nadja SayejWhen one thinks of the transcontinental railroad, rarely do Chinese migrants come to mind. But in a new exhibition at the National Museum of American History in Washington, a vital revision is presented.
Senegal Zuma withdraws from corruption inquiryBBC News - BBC WorldThat's all from BBC Africa Live for now. Keep up-to-date with what's happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or check the BBC News website. Quote Message: A bird's relative
Business Nevada: Feds should restudy seismic risk at nuke dump siteAssociated Press - By KEN RITTER, Associated PressLAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks of
Chandrayaan-2 Chandrayaan-2: India announces new date for Moon missionbbc.co.uk India has announced a new date to launch its second lunar mission after the scheduled blast-off was halted on Monday due to a technical snag.
Asteroids Japan’s Hayabusa-2 Successfully Lands on the Asteroid and Sends Back Postcards - Here They Arelightstalking.com - Kehl Bayern The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s Hayabusa-2 probe began its journey back in December 2014. It landed on its target asteroid, Ryugu, …
Humanity A "Game-Changing" 10,000-Year-Old Neolithic City Has Been Unearthed Near JerusalemScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill A giant human settlement dating back to the Stone Age has been discovered near Jerusalem, and researchers say it's not just the largest of its kind …
Science 1,700-year-old recently discovered Christian letter offers clues into how faithful lived centuries agoFox News - Caleb ParkeResearchers unveiled a rare 1,700-year-old letter that they said sheds new light into how early Christians lived. The letter, which is at least 40 to 50 years older than all other known Christian documentary
History The making of the Bayeux Tapestry: who made it, how long did it take, and how has it survived?historyextra.com The Bayeux Tapestry tells one of the most famous stories in British history – that of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, particularly the battle …
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