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Decoding da Vinci | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Decoding da Vinci | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGsUFvwgvCo&ab_channel=NOVAPBSOfficial[/embed] Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up complex machines centuries ahead of his time, including parachutes, armored tanks, hang gliders, and robots. On the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, with the help of biographer Walter Isaacson,…

Māoriland indigenous film festival to screen 200-plus short films this year | RNZ News

Libby Hakaraia will be stepping down as festival director. Photo: supplied
Māoriland indigenous film festival to screen 200-plus short films this year by RNZ News (RNZ)

The creator of the largest indigenous film festival in the world – which kicks off today – is pleased with how much it has grown in 10 years.

The creator of the largest indigenous film festival in the world – which kicks off today – is pleased with how much it has grown in 10 years.Māoriland which started in 2014 will showcase its largest programme yet, representing more than 150 Indigenous nations from across the world.More than 200 short films which will be…

Analysis: S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt) is an incredible action movie with seriously troubling politics – Vox

Analysis: S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt) is an incredible action movie with seriously troubling po… by Ritesh Babu (Vox)

Netflix’s RRR has action, adventure, and problematic casteist politics.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsU0CGZoV8E[/embed] When you give the people who might rise up against you a common constructed enemy who you outline as below them, you are saying, “Oppress them with us and you too can be part of our glorious hegemony.” Certainly, individuals from marginalized caste backgrounds can be granted power, but only as symbols to inspire…

UC Berkeley Professor Taught with Suspected Native American Remains — ProPublica

A Top UC Berkeley Professor Taught With Remains That May Include Dozens of Native Americans
ProPublica (ProPublica)

Despite decades of Indigenous activism and resistance, UC Berkeley has failed to return the remains of thousands of Native Americans to tribes. The university is still discovering more human remains in its collection.

White, a world-renowned expert on human evolution, said the collection was passed down through generations of anthropology professors before he started teaching with it in the late 1970s. It came with no records, he said. Most were not labeled at all or said only “lab.” But that simple description masked a dark history, UC Berkeley…

Explore the Oldest Digitized Photos from the Schomburg Center | The New York Public Library

Type of Resource still image Genre Photographs Date Created 1840 - 1849 Division Schomburg Center

The Schomburg Center’s Photographs and Prints Division houses more than 500,000 photographs, lithographs, and engravings by and about Black people in the U.S., Africa, and the wider African Diaspora. Recently, 17 daguerreotype portraits in the Division dating from the 1840s to 1850s, most of them featuring Black subjects, were digitized and are now available to…

Alcorn State Golden Girls and Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite Marching Band – Orpheus Mardi Gras Parade

Alcorn State Golden Girls and Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite Marching Band
Alcorn State Golden Girls and Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite Marching Band – Orpheus Mardi Gras Parade from YouTube

Alcorn State marching band in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3m7zkHywIQ&ab_channel=ShowtimeWeb[/embed]

CrimethInc. : Escaping Washington for Freedom : Let’s not Celebrate George Washington, but the Slaves Who Escaped Him

CrimethInc
Escaping Washington for Freedom (CrimethInc.)

This text is part of a larger examination of the Founding Fathers, colonialism, and resistance.

President’s Day, a federal holiday, observes George Washington’s birthday on February 22. Yet as a slave owner and profiteer on others’ servitude, George Washington is a poor exemplar of the struggle for freedom. Rather than looking to him for a model representing resistance to tyranny, let’s remember the slaves and indentured servants who sought to…

Pump Up The Volume – A History of House Music – Documentary – 2001 – Channel 4 (UK)

A History of House Music
Pump Up The Volume – A History of House Music – Documentary – 2001 – Channel 4 (UK) from YouTube

This music documentary explores the evolution of house music from its origins up until 2001. It contains interviews with the big DJs such as Frankie Knuckles and Derrick May in and around some of the most iconic nightclubs like New York’s Paradise Garage.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRRg8M4fvUo&ab_channel=TheDJMixtape[/embed]

The Lord of the Rings and its far right fans | Tapestry with Mary Hynes | Live Radio | CBC Listen

Fascism and LOTR Fandom in Italy
The Lord of the Rings and its far right fans from cbc.ca

The dangers of traditionalism when the tradition is fascism or some other dysfunctional political stream.

Why is Lord of the Rings and fantasy novels so intriguing to conservatives and the far right? Journalist John Last has been researching the links between The Lord of the Rings and Italian fascist movements. He talks about how the Italian prime minister’s love for Tolkien is interwoven with her politics. Source: The Lord of…

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