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‘British ingenuity’ not colonialism drove UK growth, says Kemi Badenoch
PA Media: Money via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoHe added that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was no more important to the British economy than...
Canvases and cobblestones: how to navigate Nantes’ arts and culture scene
National Geographic· 7 days agoEvery summer, with this green line as its focal point, the city stages a cultural festival, Le...
An “extreme act of protest”: The long history of self-immolation as political statement
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAs a scholar of suicide under colonization, I have spent perhaps an unusual amount of time thinking,...
Frieze New York Brings a Rich, Cross-Cultural Mix
New York Times· 5 days agoThe Shed welcomes an international survey of painting, textiles and collage to its galleries. “Money is no object,” states a sly little text painting by...
Inside York Village: The Town In Sierra Leone Where Formerly Enslaved People Settled
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFounded in 1787, thousands of enslaved people were either returned to or liberated in Freetown when...
How Bondage Built the Church | Tiya Miles
New York Review of Books· 5 days agoWhen the Florida State Board of Education approved new standards for the middle school curriculum last July, there was an uproar. Historians, media...
Whitmire: Why Alabama doesn’t have a lottery
Birmingham News· 5 days agoOn Tuesday, the Alabama Legislature came as close as it ever has to passing a comprehensive gambling bill, which is to say, it didn’t and I again have to...
Beyond the Bin: Creative Ways to Repurpose Glass Bottles and Containers
Denton Record-Chronicle· 7 days agoAmericans use a lot of glass bottles and containers. In fact, according to The Commonwealth of...
The National Urban League Comes Home
New York Times· 2 days agoThe civil rights organization will anchor a sprawling mixed-use development in Harlem that will include a new museum focused on the American civil rights...
'Slavery Still Exists' Says Commenters On Video Of Asian Man Beating His African Employees
Black Enterprise· 2 days agoA video going viral of an Asian man physically assaulting two African employees has sparked backlash...
