Tag: history

PLEASE USE THE SERVICE ENTRANCE…

William Evans asks: Why aren’t there more people of color in period TV?

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Comic Books and Hip Hop History: Ed Piskor

Comic book artist Ed Piskor talks about the first volume of his epic undertaking: Hip Hop Family Tree.

How an Austronesian Concept Entered World of Warcraft

Read here about the history of “mana”.

Below: “Papuan Idols,” in With the World’s People by John Clark Ridpath, 1912.
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“Salem” could have been scarier had it been more historically accurate

Turns out gore doesn’t trump reality.

Below, Ashley Madekwe as slave Tituba

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The History: “Hip Hop, Technology, and Innovation”

Written by MIT’s Adjoa Poku
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Racialicious: The “Madness” of HP Lovecraft

The N Word through the Ages
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Digging up Dracula?

Daily Mail claims tomb holds Vlad III of Wallachia
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