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Apr 10 2024
News
A Wellesley course on Bad Bunny teaches Puerto Rican history and culture through the superstar’s music
Look up to the TD Garden rafters on April 17, and you may see a class of 15 Wellesley students and their professor closely analyzing their course’s main subject: Bad Bunny. In “Bad Bunny: Race, Gender, and Empire in Reggaetón,” the undergraduates are studying Puerto Rican history, cultural politics, and more through the lens of the Latin trap superstar, real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio
The Boston GlobeApr 11 2024
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Reviews For The Easily Distracted: Civil War
Ha ha! Why, I'd never do something so hacky and predictable! [rips upliner notes]{WAR}: f(nothing) = |nothing|3.5 J&R Whiskey Liquor Lads out of 5."Welcome to the frontline.""One upside: hardly any traffic."In the waning days of the Second American Civil War, veteran photojournalist Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and fellow reporter Joel (Wagner Moura) leave for Washington, DC hoping to interview the
Houston PressApr 03 2024
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Cambodia Town Parade, Culture Festival returns for 16th year this weekend
The 16th annual Cambodia Town Parade and Cultural, a celebration of the country’s new year, will return to Long Beach this weekend. The free event will kick off with the parade at the intersection of Anaheim Street and Cherry Avenue on Sunday, April 7 at 10:30 a.m. after an interfaith program, including a traditional blessing. The parade will travel about a half mile to MacArthur Park, 1321
Long Beach Press-TelegramApr 14 2024
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Israel-Hamas War: Week Twenty Eight.
Iran’s attack on Israel. A wave of condemnation around the world, back-to-back support for Israel from Western countries. The negotiations to formulate a hostage deal are deadlocked - Hamas responds negatively to the American initiative. The IDF continues targeted activity throughout the Strip, even after a significant reduction of forces and leaving Khan Yunis. Three sons of a senior Hamas
ForbesJan 08 2020
Analysis
The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0
Until the last few years, it made sense to talk in terms of a red tribe and a blue tribe when describing political affiliation in the U.S. The red tribe was right-wing, populist, nationalist, religious, concerned by terrorism, and valued sexual purity. The blue tribe was left-wing, globalist, internationalist, secular, concerned by global warming, and valued sexual freedom. They had
MediumDec 08 2019
Analysis
View From The Culture War Trenches
Michael Brendan Dougherty has written one of the best pieces of political and cultural analysis that I’ve seen in a while. It’s a short essay called “Trump Is Incidental To The Culture War,” and it’s well worth a read. In it, he offers a theory for why Democratic presidential candidates aren’t reaching rightward to try to peel off voters from Trump, as they have successfully done against
The American ConservativeApr 13 2024
News
Netanyahu Is Trying to Drag the U.S. Into War With Iran
There is a line from the immortal anti-war poem i sing of Olaf glad and big, in which the protagonist, Olaf, a World War I–era conscientious objector who eventually dies in prison at the hands of the state, declares, “There is some sh*t I will not eat.” The basic problem we confront in the Middle East today is that when it comes from Benjamin Netanyahu, there is nothing Joe Biden will not eat
The American ConservativeMar 18 2024
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Native American Culture Keeper Experience - March 23
During his message commemorating the first-ever National Women’s History Week in 1980, President Jimmy Carter said “From the first settlers who came to our shores, from the first American Indian families who befriended them, men and women have worked together to build this nation. Too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership
Patch.comApr 13 2024
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Abstract Artist Helen Frankenthaler’s Family Is at War
A foundation to promote the legacy of abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler is being torn apart by a family squabble—complete with a lawsuit and a boardroom battle in the midst of planning for a major retrospective. “It’s a poisonous mess,” London art dealer Bernard Jacobson, a longtime friend of Frankenthaler, told . “Helen would be horrified.” Several relatives of Frankenthaler, who died in
Daily Beast