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This book uses the history of photography and the history of imperialism to shed light on both the work of images and on the work of colonial and imperial domination.

In a powerful new film, director Katherin Hervey explores a program at San Quentin prison that pairs inmates with ‘surrogate victims’ as a form of therapy

I continue to seek healing in the kitchen, the way I recover from the churning news cycle of sickness and police violence.

This episode of Black-ish, which, if it had come out when it was supposed to, would have been a time capsule of where we were as a nation a year into Trump’s presidency.

Nominative determinism, explains poet Ellaraine Lockie about a certain president, is the hypothesis that people gravitate towards areas of work that fit their name.

The lessons of the Pink Tide of leftist and leftish governments in Latin America that marked much of the period following 1998 but were undone by rightist movements, US meddling, world economic crisis and internal weaknesses are aptly told....

Wilkerson, in this new book, asks us to rethink our current discourse on race. Reviewer Eisenstein is skeptical, and finds the book's argument unconvincing.

Movies about class and inequality have made it into the global mainstream recently and are picking up major prizes. The genre-busting, edge-of-your-seat Brazilian film Bacurau is the latest. You've gotta see it.

The thing about food is that everyone eats, whether it’s written about or not; knowing how to cook can be political because in times of economic uncertainty, it can sustain you not just with nourishment, but with the money needed to survive.

The Mexican actor and director Diego Luna has persuaded experts to join him on a new TV show to talk, eat and, hopefully, examine their own beliefs and prejudices