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Reviving resistance: Graphic novels illuminate heroic struggles against transatlantic slave trade
Millions of people were abducted from West Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the ...
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UNESCO inscribes Sri Lanka’s Tribhasha Sellipiya & Panadura Vadaya documents in Memory of the World Register
Sri Lanka’s Trilingual Inscription (Tribhasha Sellipiya) and a collection of documents connected with the Pānadurā Vādaya (The Great Debate of Panadura) in 1873 have been inscribed in the UNESCO ...
Centuries ago, doctors may have said Rachael had ‘hysteria’. They still aren’t sure what causes her condition
Rachael Dodd has functional neurological disorder, a modern “hysteria” at the centre of a medical misogyny Venn diagram.
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Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote
The SAVE Act presents a constitutional dilemma. By requiring individuals to show documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections, the SAVE Act is implicitly saying that someone ...
The (consciously) forgotten worlds of Arabic-Malayalam and Arabic-Tamil
The Arabic script influenced several South Asian languages such as Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, and Malayalam. While ...