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The Odyssey Casting Controversy: What Critics Ignore

The Odyssey casting controversy explained What the Far Right Refuse to Admit About The Odyssey Casting Controversy A critical analysis of Christopher Nolan’s epic through casting, history, science and box-office economics. The Odyssey casting controversy has focused on Christopher Nolan’s decision to place actors including Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya and Travis Scott in prominent mythological roles. […]

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Our Global Family Tree

Some people think our global family tree is neat and linear — one trunk, a few tidy branches, and everyone filing out in orderly lines. 🥱 A 2022 study by Wohns, McVean and colleagues, published in Science, and summarised in New Scientist, throws a spanner in that fantasy. Instead of a tidy family tree, what

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Were the Ancient Egyptians black?

Think Africa Reference Guide • Ancient Egypt • Multidisciplinary Evidence Were the Ancient Egyptians Black? Ancient Egypt lasted for thousands of years, stretched from the Mediterranean Delta deep into the Nile Valley, and interacted continuously with Nubia, the Sahara, the Levant and the wider Mediterranean. A serious answer therefore cannot be reduced to “all Black”

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Myths about African HISTORY

There are a few myths about African history and a few reasons why some European writers – not all – felt the need to malign brown-skinned people and claim Africans came from a continent without history. It probably gave them moral peace of mind to believe that they were not committing physical, mental and moral

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African skin tones

Whenever someone says Africa, the first thought on the minds of most people is a mental image of dark-skinned people. Well here is a shocker, there are many different completely natural African skin tones ranging from very dark to very light, from the Dinka of South Sudan to the San of South Africa respectively. Different

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African Genes in Scottish DNA Study

Map of medieval Scotland The history that was taught at school says that Scots were originally Irish and Celtic people who migrated to Scotland and that Europe in general was the ancestral home of white people. Many people including Scots themselves have a long-held belief that the ethnic make-up of Scotland is strictly Scots, Irish,

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