#colonialism

#colonialism

For a long time, a square and a street in Berlin's Wedding borough carried the names of two representatives of German colonialism in Africa.Not anymore.Nachtigal Square and Lüderitzstrasse were renamed on Friday.Berlin, December 2nd, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - Adolf Lüderitz, who lived from 1834-1886, and Gustav Nachtigal, who was born the same year and died one year later, were precursors of colonialism.

The conversation of sustainability is at the forefront of design but there is "still a long way to go" said designer Caroline Till at the Materials of Tomorrow symposium during 3 Days of Design.Researcher and designer Till began her keynote speech at the Materials of Tomorrow symposium, which was hosted by furniture brand IKEA's research lab Space10, by focusing on how human activity has depleted the Earth's resources.

Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian playwright, author and activist who was hailed as one of Africa's leading literary lights as well as one of its most influential feminists, died on Wednesday.She was 81.Her family said in a statement that she died after a brief illness.The statement did not specify the cause or where she died.

A row has erupted in France after a rightwing politician insisted that a high school named after the Black US activist Angela Davis should change its name.Valerie Pecresse, who ran for president last year for Nicolas Sarkozy's party, Les Republicains, scoring a humiliating 4.78%, is head of the greater Paris Ile-de-France region.

Vivid nightmares become too real: NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Jessica Johns about her novel, "Bad Cree."It's about a young woman dealing with the loss of her sister and with supernatural forces.AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: (Reading) Before I look down, I know it's there.The crow's head I was clutching in my dream is now in the bed with me.

The Church of England's decision to set up a 100m fund for communities adversely affected by historic slavery is the latest and biggest step it has taken over the past few years to address past wrongs relating to its links to the slave trade.The report on the origins of the C of E's healthy 9bn-plus endowment fund correctly describes the 17th century slave trade as abhorrent and a source of misery and injustice.

R ufus Norris has announced he is to quit British theatre's top job leaving as artistic director and chief executive of the National Theatre in 2025 and describing his stint in charge as the most challenging time in our history.The director, who steered the Southbank institution through the Covid crisis, brought stars including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Olivia Colman, Anne-Marie Duff and Cate Blanchett to its stage after taking over in 2015.

Nowhere in popular culture are cocktails so identified with specific moods, feelings and moments as in film.Some have served to revive unfashionable drinks, like The Dude's penchant for White Russians in The Big Lebowski, while other drinks have been defined by (and often maligned because of) television and film associations, like Sex and the City's Cosmo.

Spring this year has been a particular joy for touring singers like me.The cloud of Covid seems to have evaporated: Restrictions have been lifted, audiences have (nervously) returned and the prospect of being stranded in foreign parts with a positive test is gone, not to mention the diminishing threat of serious or voice-impacting illness.

Pop in 2022 was unequivocally dominated by the Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny.Songs from his latest album, Un Verano Sin Ti (A Summer Without You), were streamed billions of times, keeping it at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart for much of the year; his tours and other live performances grossed $435 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.

"What if India ruled Great Britain?" reads the caption of a TikTok video, now viewed over 1.7 million times.The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history which never happened: An industrial revolution set off the militarization of India.London fell to the Indian Armada, and wealthy Indian families settled in Great Britain.

The Australia pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is exclusively revealed here, features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown.Named Unsettling Queenstown, the pavilion aims to draw attention to the legacy of colonialism and extraction by focusing on several settlements named Queenstown.

June Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Twice a month, The Rumpus brings your favorite writers directly to your IRL mailbox via our Letters in the Mail program.Paul Hlava Ceballos
Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of , winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Hellooooo, Trash Pandas!It's me, your best friend Elinor Jones, coming at you with a steaming hot pile of gossip, news, and nonsense.I'm writing it while on every over-the-counter allergy medicine I could get my dexterous little paws on, so if the quality is worse than you're used to, blame this lush and verdant hellscape we call home.

As King Charles III put on the centuries-old St. Edward's crown on Saturday, Jamaica, a Commonwealth member, continued to move ahead with plans to cut ties with the British monarchy a decision scheduled for a referendum in 2024.Time has come.Jamaica in Jamaican hands, Marlene Malahoo Forte, Jamaica's minister for legal and constitutional affairs, said in an interview with Sky News this week.

When the Scottish band Young Fathers were partway through writing their new album, Heavy Heavy, Graham Hastings, known as G, played his brother-in-law a song called Rice.The track features cascading drums and bouncy, booming bass as the three-piece chant lyrics including These hands can heal and See the turning tide.

The Scottish actor Alan Cumming has returned an honor from Britain's government and monarchy, he announced on Instagram on Friday, writing in a post that he did not want to be associated with the toxicity of empire.Mr. Cumming, the host of the American version of the reality competition show The Traitors, joins a tradition of people rejecting the Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or O.B.E., and similar honors, such as knighthoods or damehoods.

WASHINGTON  There is one word that American officials are trying to avoid saying as they meet with African counterparts during the U.S.-Africa leaders summit in Washington this week: China.President Biden and his aides do not want the nearly 50 African leaders attending the event to perceive that official U.S. interests on the continent are mainly driven by a desire to counter China, which has built enormous trade ties with African nations and is trying to grow its military and security presence in the region.

WASHINGTON  There is one word that American officials are trying to avoid saying as they meet with African counterparts during the U.S.-Africa leaders summit in Washington this week: China.President Biden and his aides do not want the nearly 50 African leaders attending the event to perceive that official U.S. interests on the continent are mainly driven by a desire to counter China, which has built enormous trade ties with African nations and is trying to grow its military and security presence in the region.

WASHINGTON  There is one word that American officials are trying to avoid saying as they meet with African counterparts during the U.S.-Africa leaders summit in Washington this week: China.President Biden and his aides do not want the nearly 50 African leaders attending the event to perceive that official U.S. interests on the continent are mainly driven by a desire to counter China, which has built enormous trade ties with African nations and is trying to grow its military and security presence in the region.

Next week, the Twin Cities community will gather to celebrate the life of James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Raghavan Iyer, a titan of the food world who passed away due to pneumonia complicated by a five-year fight with colorectal cancer in March, at age 61.Attempting to sum up Iyer's impact on the Twin Cities food scene - and more broadly on Indian cuisine in America - is a tall order.

Ireland's premier has urged respect for those who support the monarchy in the UK after two opposition parliamentarians questioned the time Irish national broadcaster RTE is devoting to the King's coronation.Leo Varadkar stressed that the model of constitutional monarchy is backed by a majority of people in the United Kingdom as he responded to criticism levelled by two socialist TDs in the Dail parliament in Dublin.

Two powerful installations by artist Alberta Whittle which explore themes such as compassion and resisting racism have been acquired for the nation's art collection.National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) has acquired the tapestry Entanglement Is More Than Blood (2022) and the filmLagareh The Last Born (2022), The two works were at the heart of the Barbadian-Scottish artist's critically acclaimed exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennale, 2022, where she represented Scotland.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Celebrities including actor Charles Dance and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes are urging MPs to back a trophy-hunting ban after the Bill was dealt a blow by a so-called wrecking amendment from a Tory backbencher.

A Tory former foreign minister has lambasted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix documentary in which the Commonwealth was branded Empire 2.0.Conservative peer Lord Swire used his debut speech in the upper chamber to argue the accusation levelled at the family of nation's in Harry and Meghan's show, broadcast last month, was either deliberate mischief-making or displayed astonishing ignorance.

US civil rights pioneer the Reverend Al Sharpton has criticised Jeremy Clarkson's racist rant against Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in The Sun, as a former judge called on the Metropolitan Police to investigate.In an article published on Friday, Clarkson wrote that he had dreamed of the duchess being paraded naked through British towns and publicly shamed, adding that he hates her on a cellular level.

Representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries have joined forces to call on the King to acknowledge and apologise for the impacts and ongoing legacy from British genocide and colonisation.The statement, which has been sent to Charles, calls on Britain's new monarch to act on the royal family's recent expressions of sorrow by beginning a process for reparations and returning stolen artifacts and bodily remains.

Artist Alberta Whittle has said she hopes her new exhibition will spread a message of hope amid the challenges of tackling racism.The artist, whose free exhibition opens in Edinburgh on Saturday, said she wanted to explore the themes of care and compassion and the importance of community in galvanising change.

What Happened to Ruthie Ramirez (fiction - hardbound) by Claire Jimenez
The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence.When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling.One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spotted a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show.

The arrest of an alleged serial killer who targeted Indigenous women in central Canada has prompted fresh anger and despair that the country has once again failed in its promises to protect vulnerable women and girls.Police in Winnipeg announced late on Thursday they had charged Jeremy Skibicki, 35, with the murder of Morgan Beatrice Harris, 39, and Marcedes Myran, 26, of Long Plain First Nation, months after he was accused of killing Rebecca Contois, 24, from O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation.

Users can click on labels across the Americas and around other parts of the globe - or type a specific city, state or zip code into the search box - to see which Indigenous tribes lived where.You can zoom in or out, as well as choose to apply "settler labels" to see how the map corresponds with contemporary state lines.

Users can click on labels across the Americas and around other parts of the globe - or type a specific city, state or zip code into the search box - to see which Indigenous tribes lived where.You can zoom in or out, as well as choose to apply "settler labels" to see how the map corresponds with contemporary state lines.

As I get older, and the world gets worse, or gets differently bad, or stays the same but my understanding of its badness deepens and broadens, I grow ever more dependent upon books like Akwugo Emejulu's Fugitive Feminism .This short, sharp text reminds readers that, like the rattling door in a haunted house or the concerned face of a friend who understands well the way a lover is slowly bringing about your annihilation, it is good to leave that which does not serve you.

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University held a talk on the racist legacy left by the colonial mindset that continues to harm neurosurgical outcomes for Black communities, both in the United States and around the globe.Gathered at the Flatbush school's campus, SUNY Downstate's Division of Neurosurgery Chief Ernest Barthélemy, along with Claire Karekezi, a trained neurosurgeon currently practicing in Rwanda, gave their perspectives on the ways in which the history of colonialism has left major disparities in public health outcomes that disproportionately harm non-white citizens in western nations.

Sakamoto Ryoma, protagonist of Like a Dragon: Ishin!, and actual historical samurai.Sega It's easy to forget nowadays, but the Yakuza franchise actual struggled outside of Japan for many years.With its mainline games floundering in the West, spinoffs didn't have a chance at localization for an international audience.

On Wednesday, February 22 at 19:30 GMT: De-influencing is the latest backlash to what critics say is the normalisation of overconsumption on TikTok, where social media influencers are paid by companies to promote viral products in haul videos.Now de-influencers are using the platform to encourage people to question their buying habits, and think more critically about the impact that companies particularly those in the fast fashion and beauty industries are having on the environment and labour practices.

The Academy's members gave Warren an honorary award last fall, which makes a fair bit of sense, given that she's never been far from their minds.She received her first Oscar nomination all the way back in 1988, yet she's never won in 13 (soon to be 14) tries.That honorary award would be much more welcome if it meant that Oscar voters would stop feeling obligated to nominate her, particularly when the songs she's written are 1) generic to the point of self-parody; and 2) extremely obscure.

StarOutline StarOutline (2 stars) Jesse Eisenberg's feature debut as writer and director, "When You Finish Saving the World," is so imbued with the actor turned filmmaker's idiosyncratic voice that the two central characters - a slightly neurotic do-gooder and her equally overwrought teenage son, played by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard - seem like twin manifestations of the kind of people Eisenberg excels at playing himself.

A group of German lawmakers said their visit to Taipei is a gesture of "solidarity."The visit has sparked criticism and condemnation from the Chinese government.Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen thanked Germany for its support following a meeting with a delegation of senior German lawmakers on Tuesday.

There is a scene early on in the first episode of Netflix's new Harry & Meghan, the documentary on the members of the British royal family who seceded from the firm, in which Meghan describes her early courtship with the prince.It began, she says, when he saw a photo of her clowning around on a mutual friend's Instagram feed.

The Prince of Wales joked he was better in cold weather when a visit to Boston's windswept waterfront left the future King and his wife visibly cold.William and Kate's tour of Piers Park, in temperatures that felt well below freezing due to the windchill, saw them learn about the history of the area now threatened by rising sea levels.

Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda) confesses to causing the death of her baby daughter Elise in Saint Omer.via Toronto Film Fest When I was a kid, I used to watch Perry Mason every day after school.I was drawn to the show's black-and-white clarity.Perry always found out who was lying, who was telling the truth, who was guilty and why.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing how Mikhail Riches has restored the "original beauty" of brutalist Park Hill estate in Sheffield.A palette of green, blue and purple animates the latest phase of the redevelopment of  Park Hill estate in  Sheffield, recently completed by Stirling Prize-winning studio  Mikhail Riches.

These books are lengthy, but they lavishly reward the time and effort you pour into them.When I was in college, I made the mistake of telling a teacher that I was never going to read James Joyce's Ulysses.My teacher promptly assigned it as my required reading for the term.Stubborn as I can be about such things-on the other end of the cultural spectrum, I refuse, to this day, to watch Titanic-I've always been an obsessively good student, so I caved immediately.

Decolonization - the act of rejecting colonial oppression - requires the abolition of that which is harmful.Decolonization is not reform nor recuperation.It involves concrete material actions, such as rematriation of lands and getting rid of oppressive colonial structures and creating something else from (or despite) the ashes of what needs to be destroyed for Indigenous, Black, Brown, queer, disabled, and all "othered" life to regenerate.