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The Abandoned Forest Haven Institution in Laurel, Maryland | Abandoned America

The abandoned hospital building at Forest Haven
The Abandoned Forest Haven Institution in Laurel, Maryland | Abandoned America (Abandoned America)

Forest Haven in Laurel, MD was never a great place, even when it was open. Now that it’s abandoned, it’s become something of an urbex playground despite its dark past.

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where the District Training School made the transition from a relatively innocuous treatment and training center to what one investigating attorney described as “the deadliest known example of institutional abuse in recent American history.” In the beginning, at least, things appeared uneventful. Then, in 1954 a man was arrested in…

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…

Are Possessions Inherently Bad? Must I Give Them All Away to Be Happy? | by Patrick Stewart | Mar, 2023 | The Taoist Online

Peaceful statue among leaves in the forest.
Patrick Stewart (Patrick Stewart on Medium)

Can you have nice things and inner peace at the same time?

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="276"] Photo by Amanda Flavell[/caption] The First Purge The first time I lost everything, I was five years old. For most American boys, the first introduction to shaving (or “buzzing”) your head comes from when you first get lice. I remember my mother led me to the back porch. There, she buzzed…

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…

In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power

In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power

A new memorandum of understanding between the country’s largest farm equipment maker, John Deere Corp., and the American Farm Bureau Federation is now raising hopes that U.S. farmers will finally regain the right to repair more of their own equipment.However, supporters of right-to-repair laws suspect a more sinister purpose: to slow the momentum of efforts…

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…

Doc Watson at 100: The virtuoso guitarist brought Appalachian music to a worldwide audience and influenced generations of musicians

Doc Watson

Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but his music is as influential now – more than a decade after his 2012 death – as at any time during his long career. During that time he was arguably America’s most beloved folk…

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…

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…

Why are flood myths in so many ancient stories? – Big Think

Flood myths, a painting of animals of varying kinds, cueing up to enter an ark that is floating in the distance.
Why are flood myths so common in stories from ancient cultures around the world? by Tim BrinkhofTim Brinkhof (bigthink.com)

Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?

Especially common in world mythologies are stories about world-ending floods and the chosen individuals that managed to survive them, like the biblical Noah and Utnapishtim, the ark builder in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a text thought to be even older than the Abrahamic religions. In Aztec mythology, a man named Tata and his wife Nena…

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