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Print Revealing personal stories can connect people to a common humanity, and recognizing another’s point of view is critical to overcoming prejudice. That’s why choreographer Anjanette Maraya-Ramey, artistic director and founder of Maraya Performing Arts, created “Towards Belonging,” a film that in May celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. “Towards Belonging” brings to life the experiences of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) community through dance, music, art and poetry. The voices of the dancers — woven into the soundtrack — express...

Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Composition à cercles et demi-cercles (1938) Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck When Sophie Taeuber took to a Zurich stage in 1917 (long before marrying Jean Arp and, as per Swiss custom, tacking his name onto the end of hers), the Cabaret Voltaire and Dada founder Hugo Ball sat in the audience and watched her dance. He saw a goldfish, darkness, questions, a child, an angel, invention, caprice, wit. “Sophie Taeuber,” he later wrote, “is completely different”. The major survey Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstractions, which opens this week a...

On Richard Sharp, the BBC and Israel/Palestine Coverage Former GoldmanSachs banker Richard Sharp is the new chairman of the BBC chairman. John Mitchell asks: will Richard Sharp the new Chairman of the BBC pursue ‘impartiality’ in the Israel/Palestine coverage? Richard Sharp the BBC’s newly appointed chairman, begins his incumbency this month against the background of concern over equal pay, the increasing commercial competition from various online streaming companies and brings into focus the question of the licence fee. Whilst not at the forefront of these immediate issues there is a l...

>> joining me now is katy. she spent several months following the stories of these patients and their families. how common is it? >> that's the big question. there's not great data on this. what we know is that in 2017, long-term care received more than 10,000 complaints about transfers and evictions. now, that's probably just a tiny fraction of total cases. a lot of people don't know that they have a right to contest an eviction. or they don't know that something illegally has been done to them. but i think the important thing to remember here is not every case is as dramatic as a person bein...