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2022

What are the British monarchy’s historical links to slavery? (The Guardian)

Mapping Teotihuacan’s Past, Present, and Future(EOS)

Legendary Kathak Dancer Birju Maharaj Passes Away(The Wire)

Charles McGee faced adversity at home as much as abroad(The Economist)

What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance(Scroll.in)

Abortion Is Not a “Choice” Without Racial Justice(Boston Review)

If I don’t celebrate Australia Day, does that make me unpatriotic?(ABC)

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C.(The New York Times)

BORN STRADDLING LINES OF GENDER AND COLOR, PAULI MURRAY STITCHED TOGETHER A LIFE OF EXTRAORDINARY ACCOMPLISHMENT(Historynet)

Yes, your university perpetuates racism against BAME academics: what can you do?(Times Higher Education)

How Filipino Sailors—and Coconuts—Helped Create Mexico’s National Drink(Sapiens)

Social care: how Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children face discrimination across Europe and the UK(The Conversation)

Untangling Race From Hair(Sapiens)

Thinking of welcoming a Ukrainian refugee into your home? Our research can help you be a good host(The Conversation)

The intersectionality wars(Vox)

Why These Westerners Disavowed Imperialism to Fight for India’s Independence(Time)

These Revered Cranes Escaped Extinction. Can They Survive Without Humans?(The New York Times)

THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS(The Atlantic)

The History Behind the First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice Nominee(Time)

Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed as the first black woman to sit on US Supreme Court(Sky News)

‘I am only the UK’s sixth black female QC’(BBC)

Home Office staff threaten mutiny over ‘shameful’ Rwanda asylum deal(Guardian)

Book Review: Mixing Mediums to Bring Syria to the World(The Wire)

Palestinians clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem holy site, 57 injured(Reuters)

Florida Republicans pass congressional map after sit-in protest by Black lawmakers(Reuters)

The Major Findings of Harvard’s Report on Its Ties to Slavery(The New York Times)

‘I got fed up with my students ending up in prison or dead’: the teacher fighting to end school exclusions(Guardian)

It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.(The New York Times)

The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America(The New York Times)

The story behind the Chelsea Flower Show garden seeking to highlight racial injustice(House&Garden)

From the 18th floor to cloud nine: high-rise gardener gets Chelsea flower show spot(Guardian)

Occupation, discrimination driving Israel-Palestine conflict, recurring violence(UN News)

From Dhaka to Freetown, climate migration puts cities on alert(Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

OPINION: Climate finance must foster a just transition in developing countries(Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

‘I see this money as not mine’: the people giving away fortunes from slavery and fossil fuels(Guardian)

“What to do about cows?”: Toxic gastro-nationalism in India(ABC)

Black farming projects look to recoup historical U.S. land losses(Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

The Surprisingly Progressive Promises of General Order No.3, Which Ended Slavery in Texas(Time)

Juneteenth’s Vision of Freedom Expresses American Values Better Than the Fourth of July’s(Time)

Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past(BBC)

How Hindutva hijacked India’s child protection body (Scroll.in)

How Patrice Lumumba’s assassination drove student activism, shaping the Congo’s future(The Conversation)

Saving Historic Songs, and a Jewish Culture in Morocco(The New York Times)

Matariki: ‘historic’ moment as New Zealand celebrates first Indigenous public holiday(Guardian)

Peru’s indigenous communities fear rising violence from drug traffickers(Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

Roe v Wade ruling disproportionately hurts Black women, experts say(Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

Research has long shown institutional misogyny and racism within the UK’s fire services (The Conversation)

How Can Societies Decolonize Conservation? (Sapiens)

Haiti faces famine – but its troubles are rooted in a brutal colonial past (The Guardian)

Why Wellcome closed its Medicine Man exhibition – and others should follow suit (The Conversation)

Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’ (The Guardian)

Hamza Yassin: Strictly winner being touted as next David Attenborough (The Guardian)

‘Restitution’ of looted African art just continues colonial policies – much more is at stake (The Conversation)

Jeremy Clarkson condemned over Meghan column in the Sun (The Guardian)

Timbuktu manuscripts placed online are only a sliver of West Africa’s ancient archive (The Conversation)

Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison (The Economist)

Confronting Injustice: Racism and the Environmental Emergency (The Runnymede Trust)

Falling Faster amidst a Cost-of-Living Crisis: Poverty, Inequality and Ethnicity in the UK (The Runnymede Trust)

Amar Farooqui: A historian’s indelible legacy and lessons to last a lifetime (Scroll.in)

This article is more than 4 months old ‘Crucial’ Cop15 deal includes target to protect 30% of nature on Earth by 2030 (The Guardian)

Germany returns 21 Benin bronzes to Nigeria – amid frustration at Britain (The Guardian)

Dutch PM apologises for Netherlands’ role in slave trade (The Guardian)