Deanna Bowen
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Artist. Educator. Rebel Rouser: https://linktr.ee/narrowrooms
The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford agreed to return a colonial-era collection of human remains to the Indigenous Naga people in India, following years of negotiations, Naga representatives told the New York Times on Saturday. Formal repatriation efforts began in 2020.
Oxford University Museum to Repatriate 39 Colonial-Era Human Remains
The ancestral remains will be returned to the Indigenous Naga people in India.
artnews.com
New BBC Series Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
New BBC Series Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga
David Olusoga explores our most comprehensive picture yet of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its role in the making of Modern Britain
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Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look Like Fun
Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look Like Fun
The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were told that a brain was like an egg and drugs were like a frying pan. The First Lady told America’s s...
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Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free, 1972, by Carolyn Mims Lawrence, US artist, founding member of AfriCOBRA #womensart
Gullah Geechee basket-weaving is rooted in an oral tradition carried by enslaved people from Liberia’s Windward Coast.
How Fannuh Baskets Connect Liberia to the US Lowcountry
Gullah Geechee basket-weaving is rooted in an oral tradition carried by enslaved people from Liberia’s Windward Coast.
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Days after a member of Smotrich’s party shattered a monument in a Palestinian village with a sledgehammer, far-right Israeli politician called to destroy 40 Palestinian memorials in the West Bank.
Israel's Smotrich Calls to Destroy 40 Palestinian Memorials in West Bank
The demand comes after a member of Smotrich's party shattered a monument in a Palestinian village with a sledgehammer.
hyperallergic.com
The 1981 TIME Magazine Profile That Introduced Michel Foucault to America
The 1981 TIME Magazine Profile That Introduced Michel Foucault to America
These days, would we expect to find a profile of a homosexual radical-left philosopher specializing in discipline and punishment in the pages of Time magazine?
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What was once a desert is now a lush forest thanks to one man’s generous donation 27 years ago. trib.al/R4BBSxZ
Teacher Who Donated $5,000 To Fight Desertification in China Finally Sees His Impact After 27 Years
What was once a desert is now a lush forest thanks to one man’s generous donation 27 years ago.
trib.al
The Kentner Family marched on Parliament Hill Monday to deliver a letter to the Parole Board of Canada, demanding answers about why the man who killed their loved one was granted parole. Brayden Bushby threw a trailer hitch at Barbara Kentner in Thunder Bay in 2017. She died months later.
Family of Barbara Kentner wants probe of parole for Bushby
The Kentner family is demanding the Parole Board of Canada explain why it granted her attacker full parole without first meeting with them.
aptnnews.ca
Why Incompetent People Think They’re Competent: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Explained
Why Incompetent People Think They’re Competent: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Explained
When surveyed, eighty to ninety percent of Americans consider themselves possessed of above-average driving skills. Most of them are, of course, wrong by statistical definition, but the result itself ...
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