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Looted? A nearly 2,000-year-old Roman sculpture is at the center of a fight between the U.S. government and Kim Kardashian. Artnet News reports the sculpture was seized at the U.S. border in 2016, and the government is asking Kardashian to forfeit her rights to the artifact. Italy has demanded the return of the sculpture, seen here, which it considers looted, smuggled, and illegally exported.
We asked, you answered: Should K-12 U.S. history mandate teaching of Black, Latino, Native American, and Asian American and Pacific Islander histories, among others? More than 200 readers responded to our query in last week’s newsletter, from sixth-graders to people nearly eight decades older. “I firmly believe that since America has long been called the melting pot of the world, we start ... teaching about all the ingredients,” wrote 23-year military vet David Jackson. “I don’t think other peoples’ history in the U.S. should be a sidebar add-on,” wrote Betty Jeung. While a few people disagreed, or said it should be an elective or reserved for college, most echoed sentiments of reader Paul Wiese: “We learn from history or we fail to progress." Thanks to all for your comments.
Beautiful noise: Who were the women who tried to capture the sound of a newly electrified world? Shut out from a male-dominated hierarchy, women composers experimented with emerging synthesizers, tape delays, and electronic arrangements, and they are profiled in a new documentary, Sisters with Transistors. They invented new instruments and sounds, Wired reports. “The story of women is one of silence and breaking through that silence,” avant-garde musician Laurie Anderson explains in the film’s narration. “Where there was once silence, there is now beautiful noise.”
Lowrider culture: American culture often suppresses the creativity and pride of its minorities. But one car-centered subculture has shined and customized since the 1940s. A photographer spent five years documenting the bright paint jobs and bouncy hydraulics of L.A.‘s lowrider clubs. Through car meetups—and weddings, funerals, and quinceañeras—Cruise Night captures one enduring point of pride for Southern California’s Mexican American community, Smithsonian reports.
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