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"When Chase-Riboud was a child in Philadelphia, her brilliance found an early audience of skepticism familiar to smart Black girls. At 11, a teacher accused her of plagiarizing an original poem. After that, Vivian Mae homeschooled her daughter."
Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Epic Vision
With a monumental new exhibition in Paris, the influential artist looks back on a creative life spent thinking big
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May 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"When Chase-Riboud was a child in Philadelphia, her brilliance found an early audience of skepticism familiar to smart Black girls. At 11, a teacher accused her of plagiarizing an original poem. After that, Vivian Mae homeschooled her daughter."
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"Even the story of his near-murder, his tragi-farcical trials, and his ordeal in the penal colony is told with humor—and humanity." Navalny's refusal to knuckle under is permanent, now that he's dead, and is still a threat to Putin's regime. www.thebulwark.com/p/even-in-de...
Even in Death, Navalny Still Threatens the Putin Regime
The opposition leader’s posthumous memoir is a chronicle of a death foretold.
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January 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Even the story of his near-murder, his tragi-farcical trials, and his ordeal in the penal colony is told with humor—and humanity." Navalny's refusal to knuckle under is permanent, now that he's dead, and is still a threat to Putin's regime. www.thebulwark.com/p/even-in-de...
November 15, 2024 at 7:21 PM