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Award-winning journalist Marc Lamont Hill talks about ‘Seen and Unseen’
Why a forgotten black female artist is getting her own US postage stamp
Born in 1844 in upstate New York, Edmonia Lewis went on to become an influential sculptor in Rome, employing up to 12 assistants at her studio. This month, she is getting her own postage stamp. For the full article, click here.
Sidney Poitier’s Caribbean Roots | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter | The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter ask whether the actor’s Caribbean origins and mannerisms made him acceptable to white American audiences who were unaccustomed to seeing black men in dramatic leading roles.
Senator Tim Scott’s Response to President Biden’s Voting Rights Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z65mWEjq6so
The Truth About Migrants Around The World | Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell: Facts About HIROSHIMA They Don’t Teach You At School
A papyrus reveals how the Great Pyramid was built
The Great Pyramid in Egypt is the last of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World. The tomb for Pharaoh Khufu — “Cheops” in Greek — sits on the Giza plateau about 3 kilometers southwest of Egypt’s capitol Cairo, and it’s huge: nearly 147 meters high and 230.4 meters on...
Pollak: Joan Didion’s Warnings About the Emptiness of the Left Still Resonate
Few would describe Joan Didion as a conservative. The writer, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 87 in New York from complications of Parkinson’s disease, was at times the doyenne of the liberal literary establishment. But in her essays about her native...