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Jim McDowell, known to many simply as “the Black Potter,” is a ceramicist who specializes in stoneware face jugs.
When Asian Americans adopt a new nation, how might voting serve as a means for expressing our varied senses of identity and community?
The museum uses objects to help us understand the past, even when what we find contradicts historical accounts, even when examining what happened is painful.
Someone scouring the news for a single leader or organization behind this worldwide outcry would come up short.
At the 2020 GRAMMYs, Mariachi Los Camperos won the award for Best Mexican Regional Album.
For centuries, the flute music of Otavalo weathered sociopolitical, economic, and religious changes, but it nearly disappeared after the 1990s.
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