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Colonialism
Sundance 2019: The Nightingale
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Director Jennifer Kent has gone in a somewhat unexpected direction as a follow up to her cult hit, The Babadook. Mining the uncomfortable corners of …
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Germany Is Returning Artifacts Stolen From a Namibian Freedom Fighter During Its Colonial Rule
artnet.com - Henri Neuendorf
Art World Namibia's president will personally receive a bible and whip that German colonizers looted in 1893. , The German city of Stuttgart will return …
Colonialism
If we don't learn about NZ's history at school, we'll lose our identity
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OPINION: As a Year 13 student, the idea of colonial history being taught in schools is something I totally agree with. If we are to live in this …
Teens
Teens can show off their ‘Hamilton’ smarts and win prizes
ocregister.com - Jennifer Karmarkar
Teens, it’s time to bone up on your colonial history — Hamiltunes is back in Mission Viejo for another evening of trivia, singing, prizes and …
New Zealand News
Brian Rudman: All students (and MPs) should study NZ's early history at school
nzherald.co.nz - Brian Rudman
COMMENT As Waitangi Day passed by without a single lump of mud or flying dildo to enliven the news bulletins, I settled down with Auckland politician …
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Ahead of European Elections, These Artists Are Confronting the Threat of the Far-Right
frieze.com - Ellen Mara De Wachter
‘Keep It Complex’, a group of artists and designers, have launched a campaign to encourage voting, and hold the art world accountable
Belgium
UN experts: "Belgium should apologise for its colonial past"
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The group of experts was on a fact-finding mission to Belgium and has issued an interim report. The group is studying racism directed against people …
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Documentaries
Le Cinema
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Los Angeles-based artist and Paris native Pascal Giacomini seems like an odd figure to participate in the Ghetto Biannale expo in Haiti, but speaking …
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Mary Shelley
Historic Manuscript Filled with Beautiful Illustrations of Cuban Flowers & Plants Is Now Online (1826 )
openculture.com - by Josh Jones
The internet has become an essential back up system for thousands of pieces of historical art, science, and literature, and also for a specialized …
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New Zealand News
Political Roundup: Fixing Treaty ignorance in politics and schools
nzherald.co.nz - Bryce Edwards
COMMENT: By Bryce Edwards This year's Waitangi commemorations will be mostly remembered for two debates – whether the Prime Minister should be able to …
Antonin Scalia
Brian O'Neill: Slavery root of the Second Amendment
post-gazette.com - By Brian O'Neill
What were those guys thinking? Plenty of arguments about our constitution begin that way. What was the original intention of our founders when they …
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Great Britain
On This Day In History .... The Resistance @The Village
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*Disclaimer: I’ve had a cold the last week and was so excited to see that February 9th landed on a Sunday (it doesn’t) because there’s colonial …
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Singapore
Celebrate Singapore's 200th anniversary with these bicentennial events that's happening islandwide
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Photo: bicentennial.sg In 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore and changed the course of our history, leaving a heavy mark on both the …
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North Carolina
The Faith and the South
theimaginativeconservative.org - by Jerry Salyer
When we think of “the faith and the South” we tend to think of Protestantism in general, and perhaps the Southern Baptists in particular, especially …
Princeton University
The Enigma of Ben Franklin's Faith - Centennial Institute
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Benjamin Franklin tells us in his Autobiography that he became a “deist” as a young man. Yet at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Franklin …
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British Airways
Stopping the Deportation Machine
dissentmagazine.org - Alexandra Reza
Three of the most common destinations for deportation charter flights are Pakistan, Nigeria, and Ghana. The British Empire may have formally ended …
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European Parliament
The real winner of the Italy-France dispute is Europe
politico.eu - Alberto Alemanno
Italian populists’ attacks on Paris are a sign Europe’s politics is finally crossing borders. Italy and France are at it again. But it would be a …
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Uganda
Listing women as objects of tourism is quite demeaning
monitor.co.ug - By Simon Sentamu
The move by the Ministry of Tourism to add “curvy and sexy Ugandan women to the list of tourism products to attract tourists” is outrageous and …
Colonialism
Have you found a Town Pound around?
bostonglobe.com - By Gary Santaniello
Colonial history confronts us every day in Massachusetts, from churches and cemeteries to meeting houses and monuments. Though less ubiquitous, Town …
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From America to China, blackface is a global problem
The Washington Post - By Siobhán O'Grady
In the span of around two weeks, three U.S. politicians have admitted to using blackface at some point — prompting calls for them to resign. Only one of them has stepped down so far: Michael Ertel, a who
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Editorial: Our history is contentious, that is all the more reason to teach it
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COMMENT: When a TV reporter at Waitangi asked Jacinda Ardern, James Shaw and Kelvin Davis what Article 1 of the Treaty said, all three were thrown by …
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New Orleans, LA
New Orleans 101: Who was Chef Menteur? |
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New Orleans isn't short of famous chefs, from Paul Prudhomme to Emeril Lagasse to Susan Spicer. But there's one whose name many locals know well, …
South African Politics
Discomforting truths about anger and distress
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To suggest that flippant remarks about the deaths of white children reflect black anger and pain profoundly misrepresents the genuine anguish that …
Women of Color
TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage
wwno.org - Laine Kaplan-Levenson
There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in …
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
On the Basis of Sex doesn't do justice to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
noted.co.nz - by James Robins
Latest 101976 2019-02-06 00:00:00Z Health Anaesthetic and party drug ketamine is one of a number of medicines that might see a new use in the …
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Opinion (Canada)
Letters, Feb. 7: Criticism of CBC boss wrong as Netflix should provide more Canadian content
vancouversun.com - Vancouver Sun Editorial Board Updated: February 6, 2019
I think that columnist Chris Selley misses the point when he criticizes CBC CEO Catherine Tait about the “cultural imperialism” of Netflix. Currently, …
Colonialism
Bridges backs compulsory NZ history curriculum
radionz.co.nz - www.radionz.co.nz
The National Party thinks schools should have a compulsory course that teaches students about Māori and colonial history. This comes after the History …
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Diaspora
Black Queer Diaspora in the Netherlands
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Powerful, defiant portraits that speak to the prevailing strength and presence of LGBTQ people of color in the Netherlands. Photographs by Dustin Thierry Text by Cat Lachowskyj For some time, the Netherlands
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Opinion (UK)
A statue of Thatcher? No plinth will be too high for the vandals
The Guardian - Dawn Foster
Place an obstacle in the path and many people will seek to overcome it. Urban planners build footpaths, pedestrians forge their own desire lines. Hanging a “Do not climb” plaque is often a psychological
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New Zealand
History teachers decry 'shameful' ignorance of NZ history
radionz.co.nz
In the lead-up to Waitangi Day, history teachers are calling for compulsory teaching of New Zealand's Māori and colonial history in schools, but …