15 Best Christmas Poems to Read for a Festive Holiday Season
Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Christmas poems to put you in a festive mood Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, ...
Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization
Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia.
The Forward5d
Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
University of Chicago Law School8d
Putting a Legal Lens on Forced Prison Labor and the Thirteenth Amendment
This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School. The Thirteenth ...
P.M. News on MSN9d
Slavery? Not yet dead, but still very much with us - Soyinka
By Nehru OdehNobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has said slavery is not yet dead but rife on the African continent. Soyinka made this assertion on Saturday 21 March at the 6th edition of the World ...
The Financial Times15d
Poetry in ocean: Hong Kong from the water
The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...
The Washington Post19d
Michael E. Ruane
Reporter covering local news, Washington institutions and historical topics. Education: Villanova University, BA and MA in history; Nieman fellow, Harvard University Michael E. Ruane is a general ...
Reader's Digest19d
22 Short Poems That’ll Help You Read More Poetry This Year
At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...
Sweden.se21d
Key facts about Sweden
Sweden is part of the Nordic region in northern Europe, together with the countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway. Sweden is large in size, small in population. Sweden is a democracy and a ...
The Nation22d
The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?”
Onward, Katrina vanden Heuvel Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of communication and politics. Donald Trump ...
CBC.ca22d
The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...
London Evening Standard24d
Michael Rosen marks Covid anniversary with haunting poem of pandemic memories
Poet Michael Rosen evoked haunting memories of the Covid pandemic in a moving poem to mark the fifth anniversary since the outbreak of the deadly virus. The writer, poet, broadcaster and former ...