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There’s a common misconception that black people don’t love wild places. Latria Graham, a southerner with deep connections to farms, rivers, and forests, says the problem isn’t desire but access and a long history of laws and customs that have whitewashed our finest public lands. ....

United States , Newberry County , South Carolina , Big Bend , Everglades City , White Mountains , New Hampshire , Shenandoah National Park , Grand Canyon , Great Smoky Mountains , West Virginia , Spartanburg County , Guadalupe Mountains , New York , Everglades National Park , Dry Tortugas , Mount Washington , Chokoloskee Bay , Mammoth Cave , Martin Luther King Jr , Melinda Graham , Zora Neale Hurston , Emmett Till , Richard Wright , Jesmyn Ward , Carolyn Bryant ,

Opinion: Will Yale respect the heart of the university?


Opinion: Will Yale respect the heart of the university?
Dolores Colon
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On Monday, my colleagues and I are planning to deliver a petition calling on Barbara Rockenbach, the Yale University librarian, to protect our jobs from subcontracting.
At the Yale University Library, where I’ve worked since 1992, my colleagues and I are responsible for 15 million print and electronic volumes, including one of the world’s most prized collections of rare books and manuscripts. Although Yale regards the library as “the heart of the university,” years of understaffing have created a backlog in our special collections, with materials inaccessible to students and researchers until they are cataloged. ....

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Fire in our soul: When disaster strikes, protecting pre...


“The firefighters were heroic, they were smashing away the wall between the two buildings, standing on the roof, doing their utmost to keep our building from the worst of the fire. We had to make fast calls. We had little time to scour the building and make decisions before the fire department entered and began the process of hosing it down.” 
Sara de Beer describes the fire that almost burned down Cape Town’s A4 Arts Foundation in December 2020. The space housed irreplaceable work by artists from across southern Africa.
But what do you do when your precious archive of art and books is about to be destroyed? ....

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Fire in our soul: When disaster strikes, protecting precious artefacts is a matter of design


Fire in our soul: When disaster strikes, protecting precious artefacts is a matter of design
Devaksha Vallabhjee
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“The firefighters were heroic, they were smashing away the wall between the two buildings, standing on the roof, doing their utmost to keep our building from the worst of the fire. We had to make fast calls. We had little time to scour the building and make decisions before the fire department entered and began the process of hosing it down.” 
Sara de Beer describes the fire that almost burned down Cape Town’s A4 Arts Foundation in December 2020. The space housed irreplaceable work by artists from across southern Africa. ....

Free State , South Africa , United States , France General , University Of Cape Town , Western Cape , Cape Town , South African , Edwin Schroeder , Misha Jordaan , Museu Nacional , Burger Jaco Marais , Librariesujala Satgoor , Rooksana Omar , Abu Dhabi , Viguerie Getty , Julian Motau , Manuscripts Library At Yale University , Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary Art Africa , Johnson Controls , Groot Constantia Museum , Jagger Library On , Daily Maverick , All Rights , Cape Town Director , African Studies ,