“To the general public, it might seem like a buried history, but the Caribbean is so much more than tourism,” said Marlene Daut, professor of African American and African Studies and an
expert on Haiti who helped create the new program on Caribbean literatures, arts and cultures.
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he hit these islands first. Over the years and the subsequent trips that Columbus and other Europeans made, the indigenous populations were almost entirely exterminated on many islands, due to a deadly combination of resistance through warfare with the conquistadors and smallpox, which the Europeans brought with them to the Americas.
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Jen Flynn Oldenburg jokes that one of the critical tools she consulted as the new women’s volleyball head coach for The Ohio State University was a Magic 8-Ball. From canceled seasons to postponed matches to unpredictable lineups, a fortune-telling toy might seem just as valuable to a coach as a whiteboard or a whistle.
Oldenburg joined coaches and players from Buckeye teams that are finally starting up their pandemic-paused seasons on a video conference call on Wednesday. She joked she would often turn to the Magic 8-Ball and give it a good shake when one of her players would have a question that she couldn’t answer.
Live updates about ongoing rolling blackouts and other events prompted by freezing temperatures in southwest Missouri and around the nation on Tuesday.
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