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Saturday, September 12, 2020 17:02 President Ho Chi Minh at his working room in the Viet Bac revolutionary base in 1951 (File photo: VNA) Ottawa (VNA) – A book entitled “The Black Race by Ho Chi Minh and Selected Works on Systemic Racism” made debut in Canada at a virtual launch on February 20 during which participants highly valued the late Vietnamese leader’s thought of the issue.  The author, Prof. Nguyen Dai Trang, chose February to introduce this book, with the English and Vietna...

History Professor Manan Ahmeds new book is "The Loss of Hindustan." Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century? In his new book, The Loss of Hindustan, History Professor Manan Ahmed argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India share a common political ancestry: They are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. Ahmed describes the idea of Hindustan, as reflected in the work of native historians from roug...

The Unfulfilled Promise of Julian Bond How could someone so telegenic, so witty, and skilled in politics have missed out on higher office? James Palmer/AP/Shutterstock Three years before he died at 75 in 2015, Julian Bond sat down for an interview on his life and work. Asked how he would like to be remembered, Bond replied, with his characteristic alloy of amiable candor and laconic wit: I want a double-sided headstone. On one side, I want it to say, “Race Man” and that means a man who does...

Ranking Eagles songs from worst to best.

A few weeks ago I reread “The Emigrants,” W.G. Sebald’s sublime 1992 requiem of four men driven, in the face of totalitarianism, from C

No, I am not suggesting that the phrase “כבד לב פרעה” alludes to the disease Covid, a disease that only surfaced in 2019, despite my intentional, and admittedly deceptive, mistransliteration. However, suggesting that phrases and episodes in the Torah refer to specific medical conditions is a centuries-old pastime pursued by rabbis, scholars and physicians, Jew and non-Jew 1 alike 3; Yaakov’s injury and limp due to hip dislocation? 4; Goliath’s poor peripheral vision and ultimat...

The Nostalgia for ART CLUB2000’s Cool Cynicism At Artists Space, New York, a retrospective of the collective’s body of work reminisces on the punkish criticality of the 1990s  Encountering the work of ART CLUB 2000 (AC2K) for the first time in 2021 feels a bit like someone telling you that your parents were cool when they were in their twenties. (I wasn’t even born when the group was founded in 1992.) Active until 1999, the collective of seven precocious students from C...

Exhibition of works by internationally known artist Dorothy Gillespie will be on display at the Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College and the Wilma W. Daniels Art Gallery. The exhibit explores the artists multi-faceted work and features works from across six decades of her career. Opening receptions for the exhibition, "Dorothy Gillespie: Selected Works from the Radford University Collection" will be 6-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15 and Monday, Jan. 18. The receptions will be indoor/outdo...

This is a roundup of current and upcoming virtual calendar events available in South Florida; includes family, community, entertainment, social and holiday activities.

This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. The only times that I—an American of Mexican descent—remember learning about Mexican history in school are during discussions of ancient civilizations and science (the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs landed in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula). I don’t know if things have changed since then. However, given that Mexico is one of our two closest neighbors, that Mexican Americans are b...