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Genetic impact of African slave trade revealed | BBC News
A major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. More than 50,000 people took part in the study, which was … Continue reading
BONUS: The Kerner Commission : Planet Money
In 1967, President Johnson created a commission to investigate racial unrest in America. But, the answer they came up with was not the answer he was hoping for. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. Source: BONUS: The Kerner Commission … Continue reading
60 Years and Still Short Film
60years.carrd.co This table top, mixed media short film covers six decades of race and injustice in America through ten incidents of Black lives taken by police. Some of these incidents sparked national media coverage and furious uprisings across the country, … Continue reading
When Scientists Studied Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs, They Found An Amazing Secret Inside Their Shells
When Scientists Studied Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs, They Found An Amazing Secret Inside Their Shells
How Augusta Savage Helped Shape the Harlem Renaissance
Andrew Herman (active 1930s–1940s), Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration Augusta Savage with her sculpture Realization, 1938 (Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, Photographs and Prints Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden … Continue reading
The Girl From Ipanema is a far weirder song than you thought
Brazilian bossa nova isn’t elevator music, it’s actually really intensely complicated! Let’s find out why! Get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for less than $15 per year (26% off!) https://curiositystream.com/adamneely Sources: https://bit.ly/32moHOP Thanks to Martina da Silva for being the voice of … Continue reading
HISTORY OF IDEAS – Love
We think of love as merely spontaneous – but it is in fact an emotion acutely shaped by its history. Understanding more about the course of love in time can help us think through our options in the present.
HISTORY OF IDEAS – Manners
Looked at over time, we’re gradually picking up slightly better manners – but what are we doing now that might, in future eras, be considered bad manners?
Love the Art, Hate the Artist
Can you separate the art from the artist? This one’s In honor of all the art you used to love, and it’s creators who ruined it by behaving badly. We talk Picasso, Nanette, cats out of bags, and much more. … Continue reading
What This Photo Doesn’t Show
This photograph of young farmers on their way to a dance was taken in Germany in 1914 by August Sander. Except they weren’t farmers. And the dance they were on their way to was World War I. To learn more … Continue reading
Aria from Diva – Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez
Fernandez sings the aria “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana”, from Act I of Catalani’s opera “La Wally.” The piece is a haunting reverie on the theme of traveling alone and far from home. Catalani died in 1893 of consumption at the … Continue reading
