The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October.

I am American of Irish ancestry hence not a Semite. But unlike the racists I will not twist history to get a Nordicentric lie.

This afternoon of Puerto Rican musical pride at Celebrate Brooklyn has a strong lineup, with Tito Rojas, a leading salsero since the 1980s[…].

That murkiness is important: some racialized ideas about suicide become so successfully naturalized that their origins seem to come from everywhere and nowhere. Today, some foundational assumptions live on intact (for example, the idea that native people preferred suicide), […]