This is a conversation with renewed urgency: As panelist Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The State Must Provide, pointed out, there hasn’t been a week in February this year without a bomb threat at an HBCU. The latest string of threats began in…
Until the 1950s, Jamaicans were regularly prosecuted under the Obeah Act for all kinds of religious rituals. In the early 20th century, balm healers, Revivalists, Garveyites, and people who later joined with Leonard Howell to form Rastafari were all prosecuted for obeah, even though many of them were resolutely hostile…
Many times when we are publishing instructions and recipes, we forget that not everything is available or appropriate for everyone in the world. Different local environments, economies, customs, and taboos all come into play. It is a good idea to at least mention possible substitutions. In the case that you…
