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Apr 18 2024
News
Silver Spurs still sharing international culture through dance
Rosamond Grim, 16, and Lowell Geottert, 15, perform the black bottom, a 1920s swing dance during rehearsals Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at the Silver Spurs rehearsal studio in Spokane, Washington. The population of the longstanding dance troupe, which performed at Expo ‘74 50 years ago, has taken a hit during the COVID era. The program teaches kids a variety of ethnic and recreational dances. (
Spokesman ReviewApr 17 2024
News
5 Black culture events to attend April 17-April 24
From restaurant and shop openings to music and film festivals, there’s no shortage of Black cultural events taking place in Atlanta on any given day or night. That’s why every Wednesday The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Black Culture team creates a curated list of event recommendations to help you sift through the variety of options happening from week to week. In this edition, we’ll tell you
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionApr 21 2024
News
Chicago Cultural Center hosts action fair, film screening for Earth Day
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Earth Day is coming up on Monday, and celebrations were held the day before. The Chicago Cultural Center downtown on Sunday held an action fair – as well as a screening of the film "Common Ground." The documentary focuses on regenerative agriculture to help heal the soil and the planet, and features, Laura Dern, Jason Momoa, Woody Harrelson, Ian Somerhalder, Donald Glover,
CBS News (Online)Apr 23 2024
News
The Particular Brutality of Colonial Wars
Even the most well-read World War II enthusiast is likely unaware of one major military operation that happened in 1945. It involved Royal Air Force bombers, 24 Sherman tanks, and 36,000 troops—some of them British, the rest Indian and Nepalese Gurkhas under British command. More than 600 of these soldiers died, including a British brigadier general. Despite the year, the fighting happened
The AtlanticMay 25 2023
Opinion
Why DeSantis is right to lean into the culture war
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) officially entered the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday, kicking off his campaign in an unusual and rather uninspiring fashion. The governor’s Twitter Spaces chat with Elon Musk and David Sacks was plagued by technological glitches and "very online" questions about cryptocurrency and central banking, leaving much to be desired.
Still, there was a method to
Washington ExaminerApr 17 2024
News
Columbus Blue Jackets need new voices, better culture: Arace
Columbus Blue Jackets need new voices, better culture: Arace A tip of the kepi to Jeff Rimer, the television voice of the Blue Jackets for 20 years who wrapped his broadcasting career with CBJ telecast No. 2,548 Tuesday night. His season-long farewell tour ended with a Jumbotron video tribute and a standing ovation in the middle of the third period at Nationwide Arena. The Jackets beat the
The Columbus DispatchApr 20 2024
News
Using their culture to heal, a Native American sobriety group in Wichita gives back
Two drums sit to the north and south in the Gallery of Nations at the Mid-America All Indian Museum. For the past several months, members of Prairie Rose Wellbriety have been learning to play the ceremonial drums. This is the first time they’ve played them in front of an audience – and one of the first times the drums have been back at the museum. Prairie Rose Wellbriety is still in its
The Wichita EagleMay 05 2023
Analysis
The culture wars are coming for kids’ online safety
The latest onslaught of child internet safety bills is upon us as expected, and it may soon intersect with America’s ongoing culture war.
As more evidence emerges that internet platforms can harm children and either can’t or won’t do anything to protect their users, the government has understandably felt the need to step in. States are proposing and even passing laws that restrict what
VoxApr 22 2024
Analysis
Young Women Are More Liberal Than Young Men, and It's Affecting Dating Culture
Natalie, a 28-year-old in Arizona, collects screenshots of people’s dating app profiles in a folder on her phone, including one person’s list of qualities they don’t want in someone they’re dating: being vaccinated, being liberal, being bisexual, and not wanting kids.
“It seems like the apps are filled with very much mostly conservative men,” Natalie says. “Like not being super
Teen VogueApr 18 2024
News
Alfre Woodard, Greenwood Cultural Center honor Osage Nation with Legacy Award
Actress Alfre Woodard said the murders depicted in the film “Killers of the Flower Moon” are an essential part of the Osage Nation’s history but that those “terrible injustices should not be what the Osage are known for.” Woodard made that point Thursday night at the Greenwood Cultural Center’s 2024 Legacy Award Dinner, where she presented the center’s Legacy Award to the Osage Nation. “On
Tulsa World