Taapsee Pannu and Shah Rukh Khan take the donkey route.
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Shah Rukh Khan’s new film sheds light on the history of UK migration policy.
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Many believe Australia became it’s own country at federation in 1901, but that’s not strictly true. Instead, it happened more than 80 years later. Why don’t we celebrate it?
An engraving from 1992 representing a voodoo rite in Haiti.
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Shows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar of Africana studies.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, centre, and his deputy, Paul Mashatile, right, help cut the cake at the party’s 112th anniversary celebration at Mbombela Stadium, Mpumalanga.
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The ANC leans heavily on its liberation movement brand. But this will not necessarily be a determining factor in who will sway voters later this year.
Catarina was revered in Puebla, Mexico – but devotion to her attracted Catholic authorities’ disapproval after her death.
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Accounts of Asian American history often stop at the US border, but Asians were living in Latin America for centuries before the Declaration of Independence.
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The plant’s African past provides insight into emerging issues in humanity’s interactions with cannabis.
Joel Roberts Poinsett is given credit for bringing the popular red and green plant to the U.S.
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Much like the history of the US, Joel Roberts Poinsett, after whom the poinsettia is named, had a complicated and troubling history.
A Tristram’s starling (Onychognathus tristramii) in flight over the Eilat mountains.
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H.B. Tristram was a Victorian clergyman and ornithologist who categorised a list of birds he’d found in Palestine.
Indigenous Coast Salish women wove woolly dogs’ fur into blankets.
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Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis reveals the lineage of one 1800s ‘woolly dog’ from the Pacific Northwest.
The 1802 Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was part of Napoléon’s effort to retake Haiti − then known as Saint-Domingue − and reestablish slavery in the colony.
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Leaving out the history of Napoléon’s brutal subjugation of Haiti is akin to making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.
Nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and other gingerbread spices.
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Spices have been prized commodities for centuries. Today, ‘warm’ flavors boost our health and spirits in fall and winter.
The Christmas pudding, a legacy of the British Empire, is enjoyed around the world – including in former British colonies.
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The Christmas pudding, once known as the ‘Empire Pudding,’ reflects the lasting legacy of the British Empire.
A group of men being interrogated by a police inspector in 1952.
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Colonialists daily reinforced a hierarchy that allowed white people to abuse Africans.
Mau Mau suspects are rounded up by police outside a camp in Manyani, Kenya in 1955.
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Thousands of Kenyans were held in detention camps, and the British imperialist government tried to cover up brutal violations that occurred there.
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Anna “Kakurukaze” Mungunda became the most widely acknowledged face of the resistance to the apartheid policy of forced removal.
Birders participate in the Christmas Bird Count on Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2017.
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What’s in a name? A lot, if you’re an Audubon’s Oriole or a Townsend’s Solitaire.
Inmates are seen sitting at the male section of the Johannesburg Correctional Centre, known as Sun City.
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Finland’s experience shows the value of applying sensible conflict transformation perspectives in the management of crime.
A storyline in the forthcoming ‘Wonka’ movie is that the central character can change a dutiful young girl’s life.
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The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Two people use a Palestinian keffiyeh to show their support during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington on Nov. 4, 2023.
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The keffiyeh’s prominence soared in the 1970s when Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, adopted and popularized the garment.
Indian visitors look at a painting depicting the Amritsar Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh.
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Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.