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The Civil War novel 'The Thread Collectors' was written by longtime friends Alyson Richman and Shaunna J. Edwards.

As I took a moment to soak in the air, something new came alive inside of me. It was a new understanding that music is more than a sound: music is also an emotion, a collective consciousness of a people, perhaps a bowl of comforting food, and at times, the glossy touch of a saxophone. This off-campus study trip to New Orleans would show me sides to sound that I would have never imagined.

A new study shows that Holocaust education influences students to be more accepting and speak up about injustice.

Slavery played an important role in the development of Bordeaux’s economy between the 16th- 19th centuries, including wines.

A 16th-century French legal tenet said "there are no slaves in France," but art from the reign of Louis XIV tells a different story.

Ex-Brexit negotiator has enacted a handbrake turn to the Right in his bid to run for the French presidency for his Republicans Party

Having a reputation for bringing to light overlooked art, the 54-year-old, who is the new head of the worlds most popular art museum, could change its skewed appreciation.

Author Protester facing police at a Black Lives Matter protest in London, UK – June 6, 2020. Photo: Viktor Kadiri / Shutterstock.com The Movement for Black Lives not only exposed the brutality of US policing, it has stimulated conversations on systemic racism and coercive state power everywhere. For the tenth edition of its flagship State of Power report, the Transnational Institute has brought together two brilliant thinkers on racial capitalism today. Achille Mbembe is a groundbreaking p...

Gou Kréol (1994) reflecting on the common Creole culture across the Indian Ocean. But séga also gave rise to a genre the Seychelles claims as its own – the moutya. A deeply communal performance of dance and music, the moutya’s characteristic flat goatskin drum is tuned by being warmed by the heat of the open fire around which the gathering takes place and is joined by improvised call and response singing. In recent years Victoria has been at the heart of efforts to preserve this sound of ...

Pap Ndiaye is taking over France’s state-run immigration museum. The country must confront its colonial past to conquer present racial injustice. share this article A Black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who’s taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says it’s “vital” for his country to confront its colonial past so that it can conquer present racial injustice. “The French are highly reluctant to look at the dark dimensions of their own...