In an engaging and thought-provoking talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Nov. 14, Dr. Melanie Yazzie, assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Twin ...

Over the years tons of ink have been expended on the seemingly interminable issue of the Palestinians and Israel. The wonderful Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem is filled from floor to ceiling ...

“Decolonization” has become a keyword on campuses. It refers to symbolic changes that are supposed to promote diversity and eliminate vestiges of white supremacy. Student- and scholar-activists, aided ...

Many people in the United States feel a kind of historical nostalgia about certain time periods and political figures, many of which are associated with colonial legacies. For all his failings, Fidel ...

Left-wing intellectuals have transformed the complex history of “colonialism” into an all-encompassing slander against the West. A practice dating back to the ancient world, colonialism involves a ...

In the summer of 1896, 16-year-old Joseph Bohinge Boholle arrived in Berlin from Cameroon with more than a hundred other Africans to take part in the first colonial exhibition of the German Empire.

“Decolonization is not simply political. It is also cultural and musical. We can decolonize our minds, our art, and our institutions as we imagine a world rooted in justice, peace, and love.” — Dr.

Uneasy about discussing colonialism—and its related issues like Standing Rock and Indigenous-led resistance—with your students? Here are some resources to get you started. The Standing Rock protest ...

When the United Nations was founded, some 750 million people, nearly a third of the world's population, lived under colonial rule. Today, fewer than 2 million people in 17 Non-Self-Governing ...

If legitimacy is tied to history, then exactly how that history is interpreted matters beyond conference rooms packed with historians. In mid-May an old debate with deep roots surfaced during a ...

In 2018, statues of Edward Cornwallis and John A. Macdonald were removed from their respective pedestals in Halifax and Victoria. Across Canada, colonial statues have also been vandalized as an act of ...