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Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8HXihcmUk&ab_channel=TheMuseumGuide[/embed] Looking for more information about the British Museum? Watch my video about its top ten treasures. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts about the controversies of the British Museum.

‘The British Took Our Land – We Want King Charles To Pay’

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYFHOdhN290&ab_channel=AJ%2B[/embed] Half a million Indigenous Kenyans were violently evicted during British colonization in order to make room for tea plantations. Kenya produces more than half of the black tea imported by the UK and British companies still dominate the industry. Kenya gained independence from the UK 60 years ago. So why are Indigenous Kenyans still…

Chinese Canadian Museum to open on the 100th anniversary of Chinese Exclusion Act – Hope Standard

Chinese Canadian Museum to open on the 100th anniversary of Chinese Exclusion Act

Canada’s first museum dedicated to Chinese-Canadian history will open in Vancouver on the 100th anniversary of legislation that curtailed immigration from China.Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport Lana Popham announced the Chinese Canadian Museum will open July 1, 2023 — one century after the federal government enacted the Chinese Immigration Act, also known as…

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.The Missouri House debated for over eight hours last Tuesday on a budget that is roughly $2 billion less than the one Gov. Mike Parson…

The Frightening Potential of Horror

The Frightening Potential of Horror
The Frightening Potential of Horror from YouTube

In this video I do my best to reclaim cosmic horror, address the rising wave of transphobia, and show how even in the face of overwhelming dread we can and must still find hope. I also attempt to illustrate the importance of organizing labor.

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

Khemitology: Egyptian Tourism’s Biggest Hoax?

Khemitology: Egyptian Tourism’s Biggest Hoax? from YouTube

Tucked away in a small shop near the Giza necropolis is the Khemit School of Ancient Mysticism, which offers tours of Egyptian monuments based on the teachings of Khemitology, a mystical movement developed by Stephen Mehler and based on the teachings of Abd’El Hakim Awyan. Proponents of Khemitology claim it represents a superior approach to the ancient history of Egypt than Egyptology. Can these claims be believed. This video investigates.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDUNsGGEXm8&ab_channel=WorldofAntiquity[/embed]

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…

What was the Inquisition? The Origins, Theory and Practice of the Medieval War Against Heresy

What was the Inquisition?
What was the Inquisition? The Origins, Theory and Practice of the Medieval War Against Heresy from YouTube

There is perhaps nothing that evokes the grim, tortured terror of the middle ages more than the institution of the Inquisition. Long conceived as the worst …

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs7OEFCQkKs&ab_channel=ESOTERICA[/embed] There is perhaps nothing that evokes the grim, tortured terror of the middle ages more than the institution of the Inquisition. Long conceived as the worst imaginable combination of legal impunity and religious fanaticism, the inquisition remains more the object of horror than deeply understood. Originating in the 13th century attempt to suppress the…

An Untold Past: Chinese in the Caribbean

An Untold Past: Chinese in the Caribbean
An Untold Past: Chinese in the Caribbean from YouTube

Join FCAM 1st Vice President Paula Madison along with four scholars as we take a look into the history of the Chinese diaspora in the region.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLlXj0wwjg&ab_channel=ChineseAmericanMuseum[/embed] Each will share their knowledge about the many facets of Chinese Caribbean culture and what makes their immigration history so compelling. ⁣⁣This program was recorded on February 2, 2021Topics include the formation of intermixed families, syncretism, and art. Together, the fascinating complexities of Caribbean culture make for a unique Chinese diaspora. ⁣⁣“An Untold Past”…

Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble

Bayard Rustin
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble (The Conversation)

Bayard Rustin led a long and complicated life dedicated to the fight for equal rights. Targeted by the FBI, Rustin became a close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.”This, of course, is good advice for any biographer, and I tried to follow it.But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America’s signature radical voice during the…

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