Beth is a social experiment, a hypothesis that life in America is easier with a name that no one ever gets wrong. And it’s true. I am seen as less Asian and more American with the name Beth. Experiencing that difference, glimpsing a bit of that yellow peril, has been insightful and painful. As Bich, I am a foreigner who makes people uncomfortable. As Beth, I am never complimented on my English.
A stunning documentary about the Burren, in southwest Ireland, used forensic analysis to reveal surprising details about prehistoric Irish hunter-gatherers.
Source: 10,000-years-ago Irish Hunter-Gatherers Were Dark-Skinned | Ancient Origins
In a photo story newly published by Al Jazeera, we learn about Aisha Bakari Gombi, a “Queen Hunter” among a group of hunters defending their community against the group. She was given the title “Queen Hunter” for her bravery on the battlefield. Gombi knows the Sambisa Forest, where Boko Haram has set up camps, like the back of her hand. It is where she went hunting antelopes and water buffalo with her father as a child. Aisha also learned about medicinal plants from her father, a valuable skill that has earned her the respect of her fellow hunters.
As Great Britain, France, Spain and other European nations competed for control of the New World and its wealth they all in varying ways came to rely on African labor to develop their overseas colonial possessions. Exploiting its proximity to plantations in the British colonies in North America and the West Indies, King Charles II of Spain issued the Edict of 1693 which stated that any male slave on an English plantation who escaped to Spanish Florida would be granted freedom provided he joined the Militia and became a Catholic. This edict became one of the New World’s earliest emancipation proclamations.
Source: Black Then | Fort Mose (Florida): An Escaped Slave’s Promise Land
Ojok Okello is transforming his destroyed village into a green town where social enterprises responsibly harness the shea tree
In 1942, when the long-practicing architect finally gained entry to the American Institute of Architects, the director of Philadelphia’s Museum of Art, a building which Abele helped conceive in a classical Greek style, called him “one of the most sensitive designers anywhere in America.”
An indigenous family-owned business is hoping to expand their reach after creating a hand sanitizer inspired by traditional medicinal plants
Source: Indigenous family creates sweet grass, sage, cedar, sweet tobacco infused hand sanitizers
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