Category: History
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Surya Bonaly and the Backflip
Ilia Malinin is being lauded for his backflip at the Olympics, but let’s not forget Surya Bonaly. -
Beyoncé: The Arts Patron and the Artist
The art Beyoncé produces is only possible with lots of money. -
Ava Duvernay’s Origin and the tribalism of humanity.
Films like Origin might serve to confirm some negative biases about humanity in ardent misanthropes, but exposing the systems and… -
The first Black man in Major League Baseball wasn’t Jackie Robinson.
Fleet Walker played one season 60 years earlier. -
Seneca Village, Black displacement, and the history of Central Park.
Let’s have a look at the first free Black settlement in NYC. -
France is giving the United States another Statue of Liberty.
Another symbol of liberty to a country that’s still oppressing its people. -
Pride doesn’t need to “think of the children”
If you don’t wanna explain men holding hands? Don’t go to Pride. If you don’t wanna see women shaking their tiddies? Don’t go…
Dirty Pop: A Netflix scam?
A quick review of Netflix’s Dirty Pop plus a Musical Mondays list of some Lou Perlman artists.
Maid is the best show on Netflix.
There’s no more realistic portrayal of single motherhood in poverty than this series.
The Big Tent is too big.
The DNC showed broad support for Kamala, perhaps too broad to be represented by one party.