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Golden ratio Fibonacci spiral in Pan African colors (iStock/Getty)

The African roots of Swiss design

Audrey G. Bennett - The Conversation
Woman lying in bed (iStock/Getty)

Is idleness resistance or privilege?

Ingrid Nelson - The Conversation
Kathy Valentine (Christopher Durst)

Kathy Valentine on bass and the Beatles

Nicole Michael
Delroy Lindo in "Da 5 Bloods" (David Lee/Netflix)

Delroy Lindo on playing a pro-Trumper

Chauncey DeVega
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Tina Turner in concert in Versailles, France, 1990 (Getty Images/HBO)

"Tina" is the last word from a legend

Melanie McFarland
Marriage Or Mortgage (Netflix)

Netflix's vexing "Marriage or Mortgage"

Melanie McFarland
Bob Odenkirk in "Nobody" (Universal Pictures)

Odenkirk in joyfully violent "Nobody"

Gary M. Kramer
Aretha Franklin, played by Cynthia Erivo, recording at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL. (National Geographic/Richard DuCree)

"Aretha" turned "pain into solid gold"

Melanie McFarland
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jork in her iconic swan dress on the Oscars red carpet on March 25, 2001 (Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

Björk's swan dress, 20 years later

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
NFT non fungible tokens infographics (Getty Images)

Why John Cleese wants to sell you an NFT

Ashlie D. Stevens
Meghan McCain from The View (ABC)

McCain roasted for AAPI host comments

Kaity Assaf
Dr. Oz (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Jeopardy! fans angered by Dr. Oz hosting

Ashlie D. Stevens
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People working together (Getty Images)

Hiring Black women only to diminish them

D. Watkins
Old White Church (Getty Images)

Only some churches offering reparations

Ashlie D. Stevens
Son Ye-jin in "Crash Landing On You" (Netflix)

The power of K-dramas vs white supremacy

Alicia Hannah
Justice League: Snyder Cut (Photo is courtesy of HBO Max)

A "Justice League" for Whedon's sins

Melanie McFarland
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Meghan McCain on The View (ABC)

McCain apologizes after Oliver call out

Manuela Lopez Restrepo
At the Wyomissing, Pennsylvania library, pictured are three of six Dr. Seuss books that will no longer be published because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

What should we do with Dr. Seuss books?

Monica Eileen Patterson - The Conversation
Hip-hop professor A.D. Carson (Dan Addison/University of Virgina/Creative Commons)

One professor's peer-reviewed rap album

A.D. Carson - The Conversation
"The Simpsons" Season 32 episode "Undercover Burns" (FOX)

"The Simpsons'" politics make no sense

Keith A. Spencer
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Q: Into the Storm (HBO Max)

HBO's noble attempt to decode QAnon

Melanie McFarland
Prisoners are forced to give company to fellow sufferers with happy music to execution at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria (Votava/Imagno/Getty Images)

Nazis used music to facilitate murder

Edward B. Westermann - The Conversation
(Getty Images)

Purity culture inspired Georgia killings

Ashlie D. Stevens
Cynthia Erivo in "Genius: Aretha" (NatGeo / Hulu)

The soulful genius of "Aretha"

Melanie McFarland
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