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Fort Mose, the First Free All-Black Community in North America
By RICH GRANT More than 100 years before the U.S. Civil War, the first underground railroad to freedom for escaped slaves didn’t go from the South to the North – it went the other way, from Georgia and the Carolinas to Florida. And ironically, the escape route often ended in the one place blacks could be free from recapture
Read moreIn 1829, US Needed Wall with Mexico — To Keep People In!
By RICH GRANT and SID WILSON One of the great ironies of recent history is the talk about the need for a “wall” between the United States and Mexico. In 1829, there was a legitimate need for this wall. Not to keep people out of the United States, but to keep them in! That was because, in 1829, Mexico offered
Read moreTracing the Splendor of the Ancient Khmer Empire: Angkor Wat and the Ta Phrom Temple
(First Part of a Two-Part Series) By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL Whether it is your first visit to the jungle-shrouded Buddhist citadel or a return trek to re-witness the wonders of its timeless palatial opulence, you cannot help but be engulfed by an overriding sense of calm and tranquility when you arrive at Angkor Wat. The pervasive ataraxia of its impeccably
Read moreRemembering Mexico’s Great Liberator
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 18, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1806 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero, who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
Read moreThe Night that Shattered Dreams
By MAMMAD TALIBOV, Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico
Read moreDreams of Egypt
The Valley of the Kings is just 30 minutes away from Luxor
Read moreMexico’s (Almost) Forgotten Holiday
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 4, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (one day early this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend or just a opportunity to get an early start on that spring cleaning you
Read moreMexican Gulf Cultures Showcased in Anthropology Museum Exhibit
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park opened an exhibition on pre-Columbian Gulf of Mexico cultures on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The exhibit, composed of 1,354 pieces, covers a variety of pre-Hispanic societies, from 1600 B.C. up until the 1518 Spanish Conquest, when it is believed that tat least 20 distinct cultures existed
Read moreSeeds of Life and Sexuality in Mexico’s Pre-Hispanic West
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of the ongoing 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Guadalajara Regional Museum (MRG), the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has organized an exhibit of pre-Hispanic Mexican sculptures of sensual human forms from the western Mexican states of Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco and Michoacán. The exhibit, titled “Semillas de vida:
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