Category: Racism

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UC Berkeley Professor Taught with Suspected Native American Remains — ProPublica

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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

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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

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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

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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…

5 Surprising Differences Between Ashkenazi & Sephardic Jews | Big Jewish Ideas | Unpacked

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Different Jewish Ethnicities
5 Surprising Differences Between Ashkenazi & Sephardic Jews | Big Jewish Ideas | Unpacked from YouTube

New channel alert https://www.youtube.com/@todayunpacked – Oftentimes, Jewish people depicted in the media typically appear to be of European descent, yet most J…

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-TjGJ9bgKQ&ab_channel=Unpacked[/embed] While the two largest groups of Jews in North America are Ashkenazi Jews from countries like Germany, France and Eastern Europe, and Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain, there are also Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East, Ethiopian Jews, and so many more across the globe. Although there are many differences between these groups…

A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – Knock LA

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A History of Violence
https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/

An extensive investigation into more than five decades of abuse, terror, and murder carried out by gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Source: A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – Knock LA

Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream – YouTube

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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream from YouTube

Humans have existed for at least 200,000 years. Yet until recently, historians believed that cities, astronomy, architecture and numeracy did not arrive unti…

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-EN0YIBIg&ab_channel=NovaraMedia[/embed] Humans have existed for at least 200,000 years. Yet until recently, historians believed that cities, astronomy, architecture and numeracy did not arrive until agriculture emerged some 12,000 years ago. But what if that was wrong? What if cities existed before agriculture and our hunter gatherer ancestors enjoyed a far more complex existence than we…

India opposition’s ‘unity march’ against hate enters capital

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India Unity March 2022
India opposition’s ‘unity march’ against hate enters capital (Yahoo News)

Members of India’s main opposition Congress party and thousands of supporters walked into the capital on Saturday as part of a 5-month-long cross-country…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Members of India’s main opposition Congress party and thousands of supporters walked into the capital on Saturday as part of a 5-month-long cross-country “unity march” seeking to challenge what they say is a “hate-filled” version of the country under the Hindu nationalist government.Joined by thousands of party workers and senior leaders,…

Tourist booed, detained after climbing stairs at protected Mayan monument El Castillo in Mexico – ABC7 Los Angeles

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In Mexico, a dumb tourist stunt prompted a very angry reaction.People can be heard shouting “idiot” and other insults in Spanish as they doused the tourist in water. https://youtu.be/TdLkMUN6SbQ Source: Tourist booed, detained after climbing stairs at protected Mayan monument El Castillo in Mexico – ABC7 Los Angeles

Pemulwuy: The Aboriginal Guerrilla Warrior who almost broke the British

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Pemulwuy was a member of the Bidgigal Clan, of the Eora nation that inhabit the Sydney Basin on the East Coast of Australia. When Arthur Phillip arrived in Kamay (Botany Bay) with the First Fleet in 1788, to establish a convict settlement, tensions soon arose between the British and the Aboriginal clans that inhabited the…

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