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Before Martha’s Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it was home to the Wampanoag people. Today, as tourists flock to the idyllic beaches, the island has become increasingly unaffordable for tribal members, with nearly three-quarters now living off-island. Growing up Aquinnah Wampanoag, journalist Joseph Lee grappled with what this situation meant for his tribe, how the community can continue to grow, and more broadly, what it means to be Indigenous.

Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur―the creator of landmark buildings that elevated American architecture to new heights. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the son of an immigrant shoemaker, a moody introvert, and a committed procrastinator whose painstaking work brought emotional depth to American sculpture. They met when Stan was walking down the street and heard Gus whistling Mozart in his studio.

Prioritize your peace of mind. Black women deal with devaluing challenges too often. Yet there can be a way to face them head-on while helping yourself heal and grow stronger. That is why I Came to Slay is a motivational book for black women you won't want to miss. Covering strategies on conquering boundaries, harmful labels, and more, you'll find many ways to take action and emerge victorious.

Although he died at a heartbreakingly young age and appeared in only a handful of movies, James Dean revolutionized American manhood. As a celebrity and icon, he melded vulnerability with determination, sensitivity with strength, in a way that offered a bracing and—for some—threatening new vision of masculinity. His massive influence and the fascination he has always inspired are inseparable from his identity as a queer man whose complex sexuality shattered the norms of midcentury American society.

A forte demanda pela soja brasileira, que representa quase metade do valor total global de exportações dessa commodity, tem incentivado produtores brasileiros a expandir suas fazendas para uma nova fronteira: a floresta amazônica. Sob o argumento de fornecer alimentos para o mundo, o...

Em plena pandemia de Covid-19, milhares de indígenas brasileiros deixaram suas aldeias para protestar em Brasília (DF). Ao longo de 2021, levantes e protestos mobilizaram os povos indígenas para serem ouvidos e terem seus direitos - garantidos na Constituição Brasileira - respeitados. Neste...

Há algo de novo emergindo da Amazônia brasileira: vozes fortes e jovens ecoando no ativismo ambiental em defesa da floresta e dos povos originários. Assim como Beka Munduruku, uma nova geração munida de celulares e câmeras resiste para continuar existindo. Neste episódio, apresentamos os...

Para o povo Munduruku, cada tronco de ipê é um ancestral da sua família. Para madeireiros, cada tronco de ipê é dinheiro no bolso. Essa árvore, sagrada para os Munduruku, é hoje uma das mais cobiçadas no mercado de madeira. Neste episódio, Beka nos leva a uma operação anual de...

Por que a Amazônia está queimando nos últimos anos? Beka vai para a região mais tensa do estado do Pará com nossa equipe para questionar autoridades locais e fazendeiros sobre o aumento das práticas de incêndio em áreas protegidas e territórios indígenas. Foto - Crédito: Cacalos...

Quando você vê imagens da Floresta Amazônica, já se perguntou quem é o dono daquilo tudo? Boa parte desse território pertence à União, ao Estado brasileiro, mas quase um quarto dele já foi ocupado por invasores, uma atividade criminosa que só tem crescido na Amazônia. Neste episódio...

O povo Munduruku lutou quatro anos contra o Complexo Hidrelétrico do Tapajós, engavetado em 2016. Mas as ameaças dos grandes projetos de investimento na Amazônia se multiplicam, envolvendo ferrovias, rodovias, mineradoras, hidrelétricas e linhas de transmissão de energia que cortam a...

Há muitas formas de defender a Amazônia. Entre os povos que habitam a floresta, há extrativismo sustentável, há regeneração de áreas desmatadas, há coleta de sementes para reflorestamento, há brigadas comunitárias de combate às queimadas, há drones para fiscalizar crimes ambientais...

Beka Saw Munduruku, 19 anos, é uma guerreira que defende a Floresta Amazônica. Ela pertence à etnia Munduruku, que significa formigas vermelhas, um povo que habita a Amazônia há séculos. Essa jovem ativista indígena nos guia por uma floresta ameaçada, onde vivem 28 milhões de...

Há bem mais no subsolo da Amazônia do que podemos imaginar, e isso torna esse território cada vez mais cobiçado. As operações legais e ilegais de extração de metais preciosos, principalmente ouro, estão espalhadas pela floresta, contaminando rios, peixes e populações que vivem na...

I Left Some Notes For You: A Sincere Guide to LGBTQ+ Life The book "Dejé unas notas para ti" (I Left Some Notes For You) by Valentín Martínez Carbajo is a profoundly honest, emotional, and therapeutic work, written from the author's personal experience as a homosexual man who has lived through rejection, incomprehension, and the search for self-acceptance in a culturally hostile environment. General Opinion It is a brave and necessary book, especially for its intimate, direct, and unpretentious academic tone. It is conceived as a kind of emotional and psychological legacy for those going...

Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America, who made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans.

Slaves to Fashion is a cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art world. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora.

What if Christianity was far more liberating than the culture wars suggest? Can the conflict concerning Christianity and homosexuality be viewed from a more interpretative lens? James Alison, a Catholic priest who is also a gay man, has been wrestling with the matter for over forty years. This luminous and rigorous book dismantles the fear-based binaries which have dominated conversations in the Church.

Make It Ours is at once a remarkable biography of a singular creative force and a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury. With access to Abloh’s family, friends, collaborators, and contemporaries, and featuring a cast of fascinating characters ranging from visionary Black designers like Ozwald Boateng to Abloh’s mercurial but critical employer and mentor Kanye West, Givhan weaves a spellbinding tale of a young man’s rise amid a cultural moment that would upend a century’s worth of ideas about luxury and taste.

Binary is the ultimate guide for understanding and dismantling the sex spectrum, the new cultural belief that sex exists on a continuum and that male and female are social constructs. By analyzing its 10 most popular arguments, Zachary A. Elliott reveals how the tenets of the sex spectrum deny evolution, development, and genetics. Using the primary biology literature, the book provides the listener with a comprehensive scientific understanding of how the two sexes are universal phenomena and how complex genetic networks consistently result in a simple yet profound outcome: male or female.