mong the core Israeli national narratives fractured by the October 7 Hamas terror attacks and the months of war and violence that have followed was the notion that Israel’s ethos on firearms differed from that of the United States. Both countries were gun-centric democracies, that narrative allowed, but the U.S. was a land of too many guns and too few laws—while Israelis “trust their state, and don’t fear each other.” A common refrain emphasized that “in Israel it is not a right to bear arms,...
Artist Selena Kearney was raised on the Chehalis reservation in Washington state and began photographing fake native regalia after a chance encounter with a young woman in a grocery store on Halloween. “She was wearing a skimpy faux-Native American costume,” she says. “I couldn’t begin to understand how that cheap outfit had anything to do with me, or my heritage.” Curious about the power of these objects, she started to collect and consider them, sourcing sports paraphernalia, traditional...
Gabby Douglas competed for the first time in eight years Saturday at the American Classic, looking rusty in spots and promising in others while posting a score of 50.65 in the all-around.
Bolu Brea took to TikTok to share a carousel of images that featured the products she purchased 'as soon as she landed' in the US. She said: 'I know that a lot of stuff is banned at home for good reason.'
Havana, May 1 (Prensa Latina) The new TV program of the emblematic Cuban institution Casa de las Americas, available on the Internet, is presented as a unique opportunity to enjoy the cultural diversity of Latin America and the Caribbean. The post New Cuban program reflects Latin American cultural diversity first appeared on Prensa Latina.
On Sunday night (April 28), Scotty McCreery returned to the stage where his career started when he won American Idol 13 years ago. Scotty McCreery was just 17 years old when he took home the American Idol crown in 2011. The North Carolina native is the series’ youngest male winner ever and is one of […]
ASHLAND, Ore. – An SOU Native American Studies professor is being accused of ethnic fraud by the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds. Professor Michele Pavilionis is a member of the Lenape Tribe according to an article on SOU’s website. But the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds believes Pavilionis has no Native American heritage in her family. TAAF’s […]
During a search for her birth family, a Morgantown woman learned that she was a princess in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and now, her goals in life have shifted completely.
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon Community College’s four-day college-exposure summer symposiums, offered free for regional high school Latinx, Native American, Afrocentric students and their allies, and held on the Bend campus the last week of June, are now accepting applications. Visit cocc.edu/multicultural to learn more, see deadline information and fill out an application for this unique
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas returned to competitive gymnastics after eight years away from the sport and managed to qualify for the U.S.
San Antonio restaurateur Camille De Los Reyes has revived her Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month passport initiative, which gives diners discounts at local AAPI-owned restaurants and businesses during May. Reyes launched the program in 2022 to bring awareness to the AAPI community while encouraging Alamo City residents to celebrate the foods of those cultures. Presenting the passport gets a diner a 10% discount when they visit...
New York authorities have successfully repatriated 30 stolen antiquities to Cambodia and Indonesia.The artefacts, worth around $3 million, were involved in illicit trade facilitated by a network of American dealers and traffickers.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the return of these cultural treasures.“We are continuing to investigate the wide-ranging trafficking networks that continue to target Southeast Asian antiquities. While we have made significant progress and have...