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Panel on Cherokee War Chief held at Tennessee State Museum
October 10, 2019Falsified Native history and the truth about an Indigenous leader were the topics of discussion at a recent Nashville panel.
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Marie Curie, Patty Hearst, Agnès Varda at Toronto International Film Festival
October 10, 2019She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she's the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi.
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‘Shusenjo’: The WWII ‘comfort women’ issue receives a startling documentary film treatment
October 8, 2019To silence women and deny abuses and atrocities against them is unacceptable and unsupportable.
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‘Walk with Gandhi’ on the 150th anniversary of his birth
October 8, 2019This book is a gleaming, wonderfully enriching pleasure in terms of aesthetic appreciation and engaging the mind.
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Rembrandt: His times and his art on the 350th anniversary of his death
October 3, 2019Rembrandt anticipated a democratic culture that was yet to come. He was the first to place modern knowledge, understanding, and therefore doubt, at the center of his art.
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