Photographer Michael Gaffney Followed Muhammad Ali’s Storied Career And Documented Many Of His Finest

Hips Liberated Because the Feet Have Been Shackled

Hips Liberated Because the Feet Have Been Shackled

Originally posted on COOLIE WOMAN:

Michael Goldberg Collection, U.W.I., Trinidad. http://www.cooliewoman.com

For the new Indian site Scroll.in, I wrote about my affection for chutney music. Here’s the piece:

Bollywood and my mother’s bhajans were the background music of my childhood. Growing up in New Jersey in the 1980s, any and all yearning for lost homelands was set to the score of…

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Photo of the Day: Drifting Along in Cambodia

A little girl drifts through a floating village on Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia on November 14, 2013. (Tartarin2009 [travelling]/Flickr)

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Insanity: inside the Country of the Mind

Insanity: inside the Country of the Mind

Originally posted on Living in the Modem World:

Insanity

In his novel Queen ofAngels, set at the close of 2047, Greg Bear explores the concept of what he calls, “the Country of the Mind”. This, Bear postulates, is the “ground” for all our thoughts. A kind of virtual reality landscape within us where our “big and little selves” – the personality routines which make up the conscious self, and…

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Li Huayi, ink and color on paper

When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you’ll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within.

Don’t Go Back to School (via explore-blog)

A quiet spring weekend was suddenly shattered on Sunday when news of the “Panama Papers” investigation broke.

How Macedonia Became A Global Hub For Pro-Trump Misinformation

BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single Macedonian town.

BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic.

Black motorcycle clubs emerged throughout Cali in the 50s & 60s, and fought against racism and stereotypes of the day for their right to live the outlaw biker lifestyle — like the East Bay Dragons, Fresco Rattlers, Outlaw Vagabonds, Defiant Ones; down South in LA were the Choppers, Soul Brothers & of course, the Chosen Few.

via: the selvedge yard

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The real test of Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratic credential lies here.