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In a historic ruling, India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era ban on consensual gay sex, a move hailed by gay rights activists across the country. The ruling allows gay Indians to live more freely, without fear of prosecution under the law; though many still worry about the societal Read More
Just one year after white supremacists and neo-nazis took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia for a rally that resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer and the injury of other protesters, they returned for another show of force, this time in Washington, D.C. Except this more recent protest was Read More
The results of Sweden’s general election are in, with the Swedish Democrats gaining even more power. Their wins allow them to maintain their place as the third-largest party in Sweden. Though possibly confusing in name, the Swedish Democrats are a far-right party with populist, nationalist tendencies and roots in Nazism. Read More
In a controversial move, Brazil’s highest electoral court has blocked former President Lula Da Silva, commonly called Lula, from running for President again on the Workers Party (PT) ticket, according to Bloomberg. The Washington Post reported that Da Silva governed the country from 2003 to 2012 and left office with Read More
On Aug. 9 the Saudi-led Coalition dropped an American-made bomb on a school bus in Yemen; in the aftermath, first-responders recovered 55 bodies, 44 of which were children. The bomb also injured 79 people, the majority of whom were also children, according to The Guardian. The attack on the school Read More
“This year we have Neil Diamond— not the singer! A filmmaker!” said Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado, PhD, Assistant Professor of Spanish and co-curator of the 2018 Theater, Film, and Media Studies (TFMS) Film Series, titled “Visions and Voices: Indigenous Media from the Americas.” This program, held almost every year by TFMS, Read More
Summer is over. That’s a fact as inevitable and crushing as death, taxes, and graduating from this friend-filled, grassy, sunny, watery milieu. Luckily, the best songs of the summer have memorialized the sticky, sweltery, sensuous pleasures of the season, taking us back in an instant to when nothing lay ahead Read More