Cross post in sportsball
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[Human Origins Look Ever More Tangled with Gene and Fossil Discoveries | Scientific American]
[Book Review: ‘The Invention of Prehistory,’ by Stefanos Geroulanos - The New York Times (nytimes.com)]
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The portrait of Williams, a wealthy Jamaican polymath who was freed from slavery as a child, was bought by the furniture curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1928, primarily because it depicted fine mahogany furniture.
More interesting details about Williams and the painting appear on the museum’s site (linked above).
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Something of a counter-narrative about the centering of the non-violent movement in Civil rights… it includes some very interesting incidents and figures I was not as familiar with who employed defensive violence in the struggle and how that would both intersect with and challenge the more mainstream non-violent movement:
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The Kitchen Debate from 1959, when Nixon (as VP) went to the Soviet Union to open the American National Exhibit in Moscow during the Khrushchev thaw era…
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Catch that Pepsi Spirit!
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I believe that Pepsi was also a partial sponsor of the Jazz Ambassador tours in the late 50s…
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Well, Donald M. Kendall and Richard Nixon were friends from before the 1959 Moscow trip.
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Well, as an Irishman, where do I begin…
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OH! New Ask a Mortician?!?
But also… yeah… Cromwell can fuck right off. He got off easy, in fact.
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