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Watch a complete Korean pansori concert by master vocalist Il-Dong Bae and percussionist Dong-Won Kim.
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Showcasing street artists from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and Latin America whose work emphasizes artistic responses to social and political crises.
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A borderlands historian reflects on the work of border artists to understand how their art activates memory in a place where the educational system, media, popular culture, and the political system work vigorously to suppresses memories and history.
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Over at The GOAT PoL, our nine Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing a dozen or more of their original stories every week.
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A Black, straight man disrupts his notion of allyship and masculinity when he encounters the Ballroom communities in Toronto and New York.
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