“I think 2020 has changed everything. “That’s when everybody started really looking at Black institutions that raise people’s consciousness,” said Walter M. Kimbrough, president of Dillard University in New Orleans and author of Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs and Challenges. Black Brotherhoods and Sororities.” The profile of HBCUs has also risen with the presidential …
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HAMBURG, Germany — “For the five and a half hours I spent outside”die soulOne of the 10 productions selected for Theatertreffen this year, a performative installation “” (“The Calm”), I put a live worm in my mouth, cut a lock of my hair and held a giant African snail. I attended a group therapy session …
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Project 562 is the fourth and most ambitious of Ms. Wilbur’s creative projects that address core Native American values and experiences – among them food sovereignty, remarriage (a term that can refer to seed sharing, knowledge sharing or restoring female identity), kinship bonds and reciprocity. (A Project 562 book will be published by Ten Speed …
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Behind this slow surrender comes the election of Donald Trump, whom Fields calls “our mad leader.” Maksik convincingly captures the posthumous feeling of New York in the wake of the 2016 election, at least among many in the media class; opens the book “in that terrible season, in that terrible year, in our sad city”. …
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Frank Langella, fired in april He said that Thursday’s dismissal from the lead role in a Netflix miniseries following a misconduct investigation followed a love scene in which the actress who played his wife accused him of touching her leg – an act that wasn’t in the script. “Then he turned and left the set, …
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MY OLD KENTUCKY HOUSEThe Surprising Life and Showdown of an Iconic American Songby Emily Bingham It’s an old, old song, written in an age of disrepute and disgraced by blackface, but every spring it emerges from blue grass, bad hats and bourbon mist, and the Commonwealth people sing it alive again. A marching band is …
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Four days a week, a crazy scene unfolds at the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia as fans seek seats in the defamation lawsuit between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. The queue to enter the courthouse starts before sunrise. Throughout the day, people carry banners, wear fan products and costumes, and even walking a …
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When Jamel Shabazz was a teenager in Brooklyn, a gang member opened his eyes to the power of photography. Shabazz was introduced to one of the Jolly Stompers by a middle school friend. During a visit to Shabazz’s apartment, Stomper, who was only 18-19 years old, released thick photo albums containing pictures of her collaborators. …
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Beyond Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin is also waging cultural wars. Mr. Putin made no mention of Ukraine in his speech Friday from the mundane beige-walled office where he conducted most of his public affairs this month. Instead, he expanded on a personal obsession: “cancel culture”. Western elites “canceled” writer JK Rowling for “not pleasing …
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“He found answers in the cultural region, where literature, general ideas, and specific products of the collective imagination – what we might call ‘cultural symbols’ – meet. The most obvious of these symbols was the railway; “The eerie cry of the train whistle,” he wrote, was, according to Henry David Thoreau, a disturbing intervention in …
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From the very beginning, Professor and Ms. Keeley have been at the heart of the campus social scene, arranging parties and picnics for new hires, graduate students, and visiting professors. “Newcomers to Princeton are welcome amongst a dazzling community of writers, poets, professors and friends from both Princeton and New York,” said Joyce Carol Oates, …
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When Goodell met with nearly 50 women working at NFL headquarters, she first sensed the gravity of the situation to refute reports that the league had previewed the video and hadn’t acted on it. According to Locklear, Goodell reiterated his commitment to addressing domestic violence, but suggested a few specific steps, as he says the …
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