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At a pivotal moment when Asian Americans are fighting for visibility and facing gross misrepresentation in mainstream media, New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is seeking funding for its first-ever cultural exhibition, Chow: The Making of Chinese American Cuisine, which explores the history of a cuisine 170 years in the making as…
“The Birth of a Nation” arrives amid a resurgence in movies about slavery. Credit Illustration by Keith Negley Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the summer of 1831, Nat Turner’s slave insurrection ripped through Southampton County, Virginia, leaving scores of white men, women, and children dead. The rebels were captured and tried in Jerusalem, a few…
When RyMingTahn Daniels did her test, she was shocked to find out that 26% of her DNA is of British origin. She talks in her video about feeling like there were secrets in her family. “I was so confused,” she said. “DNA doesn’t lie, but people can.” Many people who identify as black express confusion…
Imagine if somebody broke into your house and killed all of your roommates, but graciously spared your life … as long as you never left the bathtub. That’s basically what happened with Native American reservations. Even today, these reservations are still rife with poverty, unemployment, and crime — they’re essentially little third-world islands scattered all…
close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Video The Forger As a teenager, Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help children flee the Nazis. He spent his life helping others escape atrocities around the world. By SAMANTHA STARK, ALEXANDRA GARCIA, PAMELA DRUCKERMAN and MANUAL CINEMA STUDIOS on Publish Date October…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” America’s Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer The head of the project hoped the machine would help bring about world peace. Google Metadata Dr. Samuel H. Caldwell (standing) went on to create the Sinotype in 1959, ten years after this photograph was taken AP…
Books In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Patricia Wall/The New York Times How did Adolf Hitler — described by one eminent magazine editor in 1930 as a “half-insane rascal,” a “pathetic dunderhead,” a “nowhere fool,” a “big mouth” — rise to power in the land of Goethe…
Enlarge this image Hillary Clinton’s begrudging release of information related to her health on Sunday follows a pattern set by candidates and many who have won the Oval Office. It is a pattern of secrecy and, in some cases, cover-ups that would be scandalous if they occurred on other issues of policy. Clinton mysteriously disappeared…
Almost immediately after the 9/11 attack, while bodies were still buried in the rubble, George W. Bush demanded from Congress the legal authorization to use military force against those responsible for the attack, which everyone understood would start with an invasion of Afghanistan. The resulting resolution that was immediately cooked up was both vague and broad, providing…
Media captionFirst look at a Great Plague skeleton DNA testing has for the first time confirmed the identity of the bacteria behind London’s Great Plague. The plague of 1665-1666 was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Britain, killing nearly a quarter of London’s population. It’s taken a year to confirm initial findings from…