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The documents posted today include CIA reports, NSC briefing papers, White House meeting minutes, telephone transcripts and audio tapes dating back to the Kennedy era. These fascinating archival records provide a contextual, factual overview to understand and appreciate the historical foundations of the foreign policy crisis that is escalating today over Panama.
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In a portrait from 1928, a Puerto Rican woman holds a devotional painting of the Virgin Mary and child. The work by Miguel Pou y Becerra is titled La promesa. The author mentions a feeling of the broken promise of salvation through Catholicism, forced upon Puerto Rico during Spain’s colonization of the island. At the Rollins Museum of Art in Orlando, Florida (on view through January 5)
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Rollins Museum of Art in Orlando, Florida (on view through January 5)
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A simple workers’ strike led to the death of thousands as American fruit growers attempted to keep prices low with a looming Depression on the horizon.
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For more than 40 years, sugar barons practiced “blackbirding,” removing thousands of South Sea Islanders from their homes to work on sugar cane plantations.
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On November 10, 1898, white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, massacred upwards of 60 Black people and overthrew the city’s democratically elected government, instigating the only successful coup d’état in United States history. No one was brought to justice for the horrific violence, and over the next century, the event was largely ignored, whitewashed as a “race riot” if it was mentioned at all.
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The National Archives museum is backsliding into a sanitized mythological retelling of American history. Don’t assume the truth will prevail.
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There is no avoiding the UK’s issues of colonial legacy.
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The third section of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is Truth. Without knowing the truth of the history of Australia’s Indigenous people, and how the European invasion continues to impact on them, it is hard to understand the pain behind the loss of The Voice referendum and the ongoing need for treaties. Marcia Langton and Judith Ryan are truth tellers. Their book 65,000 years: A Short History of Australian Art, should be in every library in the country. The truths they tell are...
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Australia's NSW Education Standards Authority will be removing the teaching of the Aboriginal past prior to European arrival from the Year 7–10 syllabus as of 2027.
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Thirty-four years ago, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel was thrust into the spotlight when she was chosen as the spokesperson for the Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) communities of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, as they resisted the planned expansion of a golf course on into their sacred lands and burial ground. In the decades since the 78-day standoff ended, Gabriel has remained a steadfast defender of Indigenous homelands and an advocate for Indigenous Rights and sovereignty, particularly the rights of women.
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Corrective policies should be implemented as part of a holistic, long-term strategy to address historical injustices and create a more equitable South African society.
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Concerns over false claims of Indigenous heritage – whether for professional, financial or other reasons – appear to be growing around the world. High-profile claims that have been challenged include people from music, politics and academia.
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A newly digitized set of records reveals the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North
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The Office of Army Cemeteries is blocking the return of remains of children who died at the infamous Carlisle school.Americas
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In the summer of 1949, World War II veterans protested a pair of concerts held by Paul Robeson, a Black singer and civil rights activist who expressed support for communist causes
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has launched an online portal featuring 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina, that it acquired in 2022.
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A new report from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre reveals a concerning trend of suppliers undermining trade unions and blocking meaningful dialogue with workers. Experts say it’s time for brands to step up.
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A shocking image of the atrocity by the American military at Bud Dajo in 1906 survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone
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A shocking image of the atrocity by the American military at Bud Dajo in 1906 survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone
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