Essay: When it comes to preserving and amplifying Indigenous culture, it’s not enough to understand history, writes Vanessa Lillie. We must also ask: who’s doing the telling?

FEATURE Nov 2025 Creating Connections: Intimate Portraits and Difficult Conversations #ContemporaryArt #ArtWriting #Exhibitions #ArtCriticism #ArtReviews #AmWriting www.thefourdrinier.com/feature-nov-... #SweetPatooteeArts #TurningPoint #IntimatePortraits #DifficultConversations

Mar-a-Lago, in Spanish, 'sea to lake'. The irony of #47 having his base in Florida in a Spanish named resort. I wonder if it pains him every time he says the name? He must know it's Spanish, right? #Spanish 1/ www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hist...

Autumn settles over Oxford 🍂✨ 📷 Instagram | ObservingOxford, EstherJohnsonPhotography, Juncao_Oxford & @magdalenoxford.bsky.social

Remembrance Day each year is an ideal opportunity to delve into well-known and well-regarded art resulting from different periods of warfare. #RemembranceDay #ColourOfWar #Art @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/sto...

"Mr Bushby said his faith in humanity had never faltered. "I can see myself in a classroom, giving the good news to children that 99.99% of the world is good. The world is not as scary as you might think."" #TrekkingAroundTheWorld www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW EPISODE | The Week in Art Podcast MFA Boston returns work by enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi Download and listen to the full episode: buff.ly/c50ZR7b

I had to explain AI psychosis to one of the staff members on the psych ward because she was recommending it to patients. She had no idea and she was horrified.

Share far and wide! 🇦🇺 Australia is looking into future-proofing their air. 💨 Why aren't others?

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Charlie Brown, a freelance writer living in Portugal, shared why she quit the Financial Independence, Retire Early movement after 6 years because of her ethical concerns.

One of the saving graces really are things now like Top Boy and Supacell, where you have members of the black community making dramas about their communities, that can't be co-opted by the middle classes." 1/2

Truly saddening but not surprising. Most NHS Trusts acknowledged in their response to the Birthrights inquiry into racism in maternity care birthrights.org.uk/campaigns-re... they had no clear routes for reporting racism. Staff and patients are suffering from racism and it costs all of us billions.

I love this so much ❤️👌🏽👏🏽 Bravo young man! #Clothes #Bespoke youtube.com/shorts/z7cSi...

A new biography by former Christie’s president Doug Woodham examines Jean-Michel Basquiat’s meteoric rise and enduring legacy in the global art market. buff.ly/cWQLRLk

open.substack.com/pub/drhussen... Good foods to eat that your body will thank you for consuming.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... "Incidents of verbal and physical abuse based on people’s skin colour now happen so often that it has become “socially acceptable to be racist”, the health secretary said." 'Socially acceptable to be racist'? What even is this world that we live in? #Racism

What gets me in this video is that people are skeptical: "Is this for real? Is there a catch? Are you rich? Why are you doing this?" And more than anything, this tells you as much about where US society is than anything else... bsky.app/profile/card...

What an emotional Strictly results show that was! #Strictly

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/desc... The Descendants by Ean Flanders. #Liverpool #Remembrance #BlackHistory #BritishHistory

open.substack.com/pub/marjorie... AI told me it couldn't be trusted. #AI #FakeNews #GIGO

Our Halloween offerings this year.

This past week I've consumed a fair amount of TV and film. Quality has been variable so I only recommend a few like this: #Task Exquisitely crafted multilayered entwined stories. 7 eps x 1hr Worth investing time into this. Good dramas move you. This will do that. ***** youtu.be/Y0QGbqVF-yI?...

I should've known better than to under estimate a film with the name M. Night Shyamalan attached to it, but I didn't know that fact until the film started. I mistakenly approached this as an easy watch afternoon film from the cover image and description. I was wrong. #Trap youtu.be/hJiPAJKjUVg?...

For Black History Month I give you a Nobel Prize Winner you may never have heard about ... Sir Arthur Lewis Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 1979 Born: 23 January 1915, Saint Lucia Died: 15 June 1991, Barbados www.lse.ac.uk/alumni-frien... #BHM

“For the next six days, we and they [World Central Kitchen] have partnered to issue lunches throughout Kingston to those affected by Hurricane Melissa,” the owner, Emelio Madden, shared. www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/10/30/m...

open.substack.com/pub/dangoyal... Have human beings taken a wrong turn? Read this substack from Dr Dan Goyal, it may have an astute answer.

In historic move, MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs buff.ly/U8JnwGT

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

open.substack.com/pub/marjorie... #MarjoriesMusings #Newsletter #GeorgeThePoet #TrackRecord “My journey has revealed to me that the majority of humanity is born into injustice; a world in which our ability to choose the life we want is shaped by where we live, and who our ancestors were.” George M

This is quite sickening and highlights the media's attitude to white peoples. Nothing really to see here.

The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.

youtu.be/vdQ6GZ7jfbY?... #Jamaica #Melissa #Aftermath

substack.com/@everydayhea... The wisdom in Final Breaths of life.

The Times runs dishonest lies to smear the left non-shocker. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bill-d...

youtu.be/T31JYO7pIwQ?... #HowardGayle #Liverpool #BHM #BlackHistory

Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's www.bbc.com/news/article... Don’t travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinson’s

Hurricane Melissa is now cat 5 as it barrels towards Jamaica. Winds of 160mph.

A House of Dynamite. 2025 1hr 55m. Dir. Kathryn Bigelow. Written by Noah Oppenheim. This may not be the seasonal horror film you expect, alas it is the one you need to watch. With a nuclear launch, we in the UK could be obliterated in 15m. youtu.be/_wpw2QHJNco?... Beautifully crafted horror film

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.

There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

The White House website has updated it's Major Events Timeline to include some extremely political content attacking Democrats. Every structure, symbol, and system has to be debased to serve the MAGA-agenda. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

There's already a heated debate about official police facial recognition in streets (will they really delete data?), but is this Sainsbury's initiative a step too far? They suggest it's to stop shoplifting, but... Yes, they hold much personal data, where's the line? www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Model Strangers - meet Elizabeth, living life on purpose. Stepping into a new chapter with joy. Bravo, Elizabeth! youtu.be/GFTVQ5mygck?...

ICE agents harassing US postal workers because ... 'they may be imporsonating someone else' ... the subtext is obvious. #Facism substack.com/@thedangerou...