Artists from all over the globe are showing solidarity with the people of Belarus peacefully fighting for freedom from a brutal dictatorship.
African Black people were part of the Roman Empire at its height when the Roman Empire included territorry stretching all the way into North Africa. The Roman Empire was a vast multi-cultural Military Empire with Trade links and frequent internal migrations that stretched throughout the Empire. As a result
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We are one — Street Ghosts (VI) Series (Mexico City), by Abelardo Ojeda. // Buy this Framed Art Print here // My Street Photoblog: cybergus.tumblr.com
Loie Fuller will always stand out in my memories of undergraduate Dance History classes (taking place in a really musty damp room) as the kookiest and most interesting historical hero of dance. I…
Annie Kenney, who took part in the movement’s first militant act, wrote to her sister after being released from prison
A harrowing chapter in history finally gets its due with Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep as crusaders for women's voting rights in Great Britain, plus the real women who inspired the movie.
When you point your camera at a random thing on the street, you usually don’t expect much. But in the vast sea of dull photos that fill your camera roll, one stands out. Call it a miracle, or a lovely surprise, but if you feel like the pic is superior in composition, style, lighting, and somewhat resembles a classical painting, it may be that you have just encountered “accidental renaissance.”
Apartheid is the political policy of racial segregation. In Afrikaans, it means apartness, and it was pioneered in 1948 by the South African National Party when it came to power. Not only did apartheid separate whites from non-whites, it also segregated the Blacks (Africans) from the Coloureds (Indians, Asians). All things such as jobs, schools,…
British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested by police outside Buckingham Palace in 1914 By Jennifer de Beer, A Mighty Girl Senior Research Intern Do you know the name of the Polish social worker who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII? How about the name of America’s firs
As hundreds of suffragettes were held in prison in the early 20th century after being arrested for wanting to vote, many went on hunger strike. Fearing these women would become martyrs, prison guards started force-feeding them to keep them alive – strapping them down and jamming tubes painfully up their noses to do it, causing them long term physical damage. Eventually, authorities passed the "Cat and Mouse Act" in 1913 a law that allowed them to set hunger-striking suffragettes free and arrest them the second they had eaten a morsel of food - leading to more being held in prison.
Absorbing portrait claims this great nation is a prisoner of its past
Duchamp decending a staircase - Eliot Elisofon (1952)
The Beginning of Mass Enslavement of Africans While slavery existed in various degrees throughout time, the unprecedented scale of trafficking Africans in
A list of the top 100 women of history on the web, arranged in the sequence of their popularity in web searches.
Women have always been essential to the movement. To overlook that is to underestimate its reach.
The groundbreaking feminist artist whose work examines the female body as a commodity opens a solo exhibition in Stockholm
If you feel like a photo you just snapped somewhat resembles a classical painting, it may be that you have just encountered "accidental Renaissance".
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You’d think that it’s the 21st century and that humanity has progressed enough for social and cultural issues in terms of gender, race, age and the like to not be a thing anymore. Alas, we can only dream.
Alice Gregory writes that Dina Litovsky’s photographs capture the Amish and Mennonite vacation town of Pinecraft, in Sarasota, Florida, where from October through April the typically stringent rules of Anabaptist life are somewhat suspended.
The state's attempt to target sanctuary cities is running into the state's racist past.
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Rosa Parks will always be associated with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56 which many regard as the start of a major civil rights offensive in America. Ros
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the most popular Russian composer of all time, best known for his ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
We don’t mean to put a damper on Valentine’s Day, but the chances of most of us receiving an actual love letter this year are slim to none. These days, text messaging and multiple social media platforms have seen to it that emojis come before real emotions, but today we’d like to pay tribute to…
