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“Critique of Black Reason” offers readers insight into how the construction of race and racism underpins our understanding of modernity.
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman speaks at the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar.
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Laws like Title IX are supposed to shield athletes from abuse. But lax enforcement allows sports organizations to protect perpetrators over athletes.
An Afghanistan national police officer helps a U.S. Army lieutenant, June 14, 2007. Can honour be restored in today’s international conflicts?
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Nothing displays the ethical superiority of one’s values better than to treat a foe with the respect due another human being.
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Desire haunts every sun-drenched frame of the Oscar-nominated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
A woman holding a Roma flag, at a protest in Lety, Czech Republic, the site of World War II Romani genocide.
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Racist stigmatisation of Roma as socially ‘unadaptable’ has a long history across Europe.
A painting by Sakubei Yamamoto.
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Throughout the centuries, a number of coal miners have documented their lives with paintings. Some of their works are now in museums and bring the stories of the “pitmen” back to life.
It is commonly thought that anyone in ancient Rome who killed his father, mother, or another relative was subjected to the ‘punishment of the sack’. But is this true?
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From being thrown off a cliff to being sewn into a sack with animals, ancient Rome is notorious for its cruel and unusual punishments. But we must be careful what we take as historical fact.
Ron Eland, at far left, in Great Britain’s 1948 Olympic team. The stories of Eland and other black athletes must be told.
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Writing and rewriting black sporting history is a means of redressing exclusion.
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Fitbits and other trackers are just the latest iteration of the fitness industry’s relationship with technology.
Swan River Colony.
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A century and a half after the last convict ship docked in Australia, new research is uncovering what happened to those who were transported.
The 1994 Employment Minister Simon Crean even had to be briefed by officials on the content of the policy when Working Nation was released.
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Cabinet papers released today by the National Archives show Working Nation began as a rational exercise but was soon overtaken by a desire to make the policy everything to everyone.
The nativity scenes celebrated each Christmas bear little resemblance to history.
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The inn, the shepherds, angels and animals: pretty much everything we think we know about the Christmas story is historically wrong.
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If Labour was such a disaster during this decade, how come so many of its then policies are now maintstream thinking?
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Some say Britain should be proud of its imperial past. Oxford academics say it’s not so simple.
Westfield Burwood circa 1999, a year before being demolished to make way for a new Westfield building.
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The fact that Westfield’s founders are moving out of physical store development to invest in innovative retail technology shows what’s to come in Australian retail.
‘I don’t care what they say about me,’ P.T. Barnum once said, ‘as long as they spell my name correctly.’
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The new movie about P.T. Barnum couldn’t come at a better time: It’s impossible not to see his ghost in our culture, in our advertisements and in our president.
Polish refugees in 1939.
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Then as now, volunteer groups are stepping in where governments won’t.
Simple living in a complex time – is a return to frugality the key to happiness?
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William Isdale speaks with Emrys Westacott about how living simply can bring happiness in an increasingly complex world.
A statue of John A. Macdonald is shown covered in red paint in Montreal in November 2017. Canada’s first Prime MInister, he has been criticized for his treatment of Indigenous peoples and attitudes towards those of Chinese origin.
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In a time of populism and political polarization, children and young adults need to learn to think critically, with complexity and nuance. History, as a subject, is more important than ever.
Students from Wits University, in Johannesburg, during a protest for free education.
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The South African oddity is that those who in other societies would be arguing against free passes for the affluent, argue for them.