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Global Comment
- Posted on Wednesday September 18, 2024
Meleisa Ono-George, University of Oxford In 2026, a new memorial to the 12.5 million enslaved people transported to the Americas and Europe – and their descendants – will be unveiled on West India Quay in London’s Docklands. The winning commission, an installation piece by US artist Khaleb Brooks called The Wake, will take the shape […]
The post Why London’s new slavery memorial is so important: ‘The past that is not past reappears, always, to rupture the present’ first appeared on Global Comment.
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For Kazakhstan, the Central Asian nation of around 20 million people, it was an honor to host the World Nomad Games last week. This event epitomizes the strength of cultural and sports diplomacy, allowing the former Soviet republic to present its rich heritage and traditions to the world. Over the course of a week, around […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday September 16, 2024
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something different every week, but it will always be about […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday September 13, 2024
The head of Vladimir Lenin’s statue hanging from a helicopter marks a turning point in Good Bye, Lenin! The 2002 film by Wolfgang Becker and starring Daniel Brühl recounts the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall through powerful images, answering the question: how would an openly communist person in 1989 take the big […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday September 12, 2024
Created by the prolific David E. Kelley and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent is now available on Apple TV+ and has exploded the platform’s ratings. In August 1987, a young and unknown Scott Turow revolutionized the literary market in the United States with the publication of his first novel titled, Presumed Innocent. At a time […]
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