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There's More to Learn From America's Monuments Debate
Time via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 week agoNew grass surrounds the statue of of Gen. Phillip Schuyler in front of Albany City Hall on June 28,...
Juneteenth offers new ways to teach about slavery, Black perseverance and American history
The Conversation via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 weeks agoMany students say they aren’t learning much about slavery beyond its harsh conditions. A historian...
What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its...
The Conversation via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoThe image of a kneeling person in chains was first used in a seal commissioned by the Committee for...
Here’s what I tell teachers about how to teach young students about slavery
The Conversation via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoFew issues are as difficult to deal with in the classroom as slavery in the US. Here, a professor...
Statue unveiled at the site where Sojourner Truth gave her 1851 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 month agoTruth, a formerly enslaved person, delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist Old...
The hidden meanings behind photographer Nona Faustine’s nude self-portraits
CNN via Yahoo Style Singapore· 3 months agoNona Faustine’s self-portrait series, “White Shoes,” highlights the city’s historic role in the...
Trump’s Bible Just Might Earn Him Eternal Damnation
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 months agoIllustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastI have vivid memories of then-President Donald Trump standing in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church,...
A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks' 'All About Love'
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 months agoIn the summer of 2022, Emma Goodwin was getting over a breakup and thinking hard about her life and...
Bronze pieces from MLK memorial in Denver recovered after being sold for scrap
Associated Press via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 months agoThree bronze artworks stolen from a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in City Park in Denver, along with seven bronze pieces taken from a nearby fountain, were recovered after being sold ...
A sculpture by Jeff Koons has become the first 'authorized' artwork on the moon
Business Insider via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 months agoJeff Koons with "Rabbit."Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images Artist Jeff Koons has been hailed...
