Albert Bender

LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender

• Culture

  

  Historic ‘Trail of Tears’ art show held for second year in Tennessee town

  September 30, 2024 By Albert Bender

  The art show was first held in 2023 and was to commemorate the genocidal Trail of Tears of 1838 trod by Cherokees and Muscogee Creeks.

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• Culture

  

  ¡Printing the Revolution! Nashville’s Frist Museum documents rise and impact of Chicano graphics

  September 26, 2024 By Albert Bender

  Exhibit is on now through Sept. 29.

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• Culture

  

  ‘100 Years of Lynchings’: 1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all

  September 9, 2024 By Albert Bender

  The genocide in Gaza had this reviewer looking back to the mass murder of innocents in U.S. history.

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• Opinion

  

  The plunder, pillage, and robbery of the Five Tribes of Eastern Oklahoma

  August 2, 2024 By Albert Bender

  They were the victims of the biggest land theft in U.S. history, and it was all “legal.”

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• Opinion

  

  Capitalist judgment, racist justice: Leonard Peltier denied freedom again

  July 18, 2024 By Albert Bender

  U.S. Parole Commission rejects Indigenous figure’s latest bid for liberty.

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• Politics

  

  Indigenous student wins fight to wear eagle feather at Tennessee graduation

  March 15, 2024 By Albert Bender

  Victory for high school student Canada WhiteEagle.

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• Politics

  

  Native people fight for history of ancient city beneath Nashville’s streets

  January 26, 2024 By Albert Bender

  An advanced city of 400,000 existed there and was flourishing in the 1300’s, long before the arrival of Europeans.

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• Opinion

  

  Decolonizing Thanksgiving

  November 21, 2023 By Albert Bender

  The true history of the holiday surfaces, once again.

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