Can Trump really change the name of the Gulf of Mexico? @TexasObserver explores the Gulf’s history, its continued importance to scientists, and what 15th-century explorers called it (Chinese sea, anyone?)
https://www.texasobserver.org/name-gulf-mexico-america-history/
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In December, Namibia elected its first woman president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who will take office in March if court proceedings over the results go her way. @thecontinent looks at who she is — “hawkish and conservative,” and the country she’ll be leading.
https://continent.substack.com/p/first-woman-president-crowned-after
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Finally, today, @TheConversationUS sent us a wealth of stories that we are proud to showcase in our @stories-of-black-america-theculturedesk Magazine.
Here’s one from 2023 on poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who, in his 1899 work “Sympathy,” wrote the immortal line, “I know why the caged bird sings!” and whose “In Dahomey” may have influenced “Hamilton.” “Diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1900, Dunbar died from complications of the disease on Feb. 9, 1906,” writes Minnita Daniel-Cox “But his work survives.”
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