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The Trial That Gave Vodou A Bad Name
technoccult: Klint Finley Mike Dash on the “affaire de Bizoton”: What all this means, I think, is that vodou became a fault line running through the very heart of Haitian society after 1804. For most citizens, and especially for the rural blacks who had borne the brunt both of slavery and the struggle for independence,…
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He sacrificed everything so that I could go to private school. Sometimes bills weren’t paid. Sometimes gas was cut off. But my parents made sure I had the best education and drum lessons no matter what. In his head, he wanted me to follow the path of my schoolmates, who would get pulled out of…
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fylatinamericanhistory: Happy father’s day, tumblr! Here are Cuban musicians Bebo and Chucho Valdés, who are father and son, performing together in 2008. Bebo died earlier this year at age 94. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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laughingsquid: Dada Day, A Comic That Celebrates the Art of Childish Nonsense
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occupygezipics: What the police are adding to water they spray on people: http://www.jenixpepperspray.com/tr/subpro.asp?id=7
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The Black Forest Fire, south of Denver, via @nevver: And everything is going fine
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mydrunkkitchen: Getting ready for #DenverPride tomorrow!! Decorating the RV. #helloharto
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climateadaptation: Click through for the Denver Post’s coverage of the Black Forest Fire, the worst in the state’s history. The cause of the fire is unknown, but the severity is traced to persistent drought, massive tree deaths by bark beetles, dry soils, and budget cuts.
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There are better uses of taxpayer dollars than to maintain high levels of incarceration simply to enrich the shareholders of for-profit prisons or to maintain prison jobs. During the 2012 budget talks in Colorado, a proposal was floated to re-appropriate over $5m from private prisons to support child literacy and other programs to help the…
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climateadaptation: The game must go on. Black Forest Fire, near Colorado Springs, Colorado (via). The wildfire is Colorado’s largest in its history. Two dead, nearly 400 homes destroyed.