podcasts Thom Dunn talks about Irish-American culture and identity on the Motherfoclóir podcast Thom Dunn

offworld Black characters in video games must be more than stereotypes of the inhuman Sidney Fussell

dance Irish dancers post tribute to Shane MacGowan Jennifer Sandlin

Culture Enjoy this tri-lingual Indigenous podcast in Quechua, Spanish and English Elías Villoro

sesame street 'Sesame Street' introduces TJ, their first Filipino muppet Rusty Blazenhoff

censorship Twitter blocks more than a hundred accounts, including journalists, poets and members of parliament, to please government of India Rob Beschizza

History New podcast series focuses on Afrofuturism Jennifer Sandlin

books Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve" Elías Villoro

History The Decolonial Atlas A.E. Gómez

diversity Jill Biden sorry for praising Latino culture by referencing bodegas and breakfast tacos David Pescovitz

Idiocracy How America became so profoundly stupid over the past decade Gareth Branwyn

art New biopic about legendary street artist Basquiat David Pescovitz

racism 'Complete sh*tshow': Drive-thru Dickens fair deemed a disaster Rusty Blazenhoff

sushi The surprising link between sushi and an AR-15-obsessed Christian sect Thom Dunn

bay area Dishes of the Diaspora explores African food in the Bay Area Janelle Hessig

politics Sheldon Adelson dead at 87, Sands casino mogul and Trump financial backer was in failing health for a long time, say those who knew him Xeni Jardin

immigration The wild story of the first known Chinese person to live in Boston in the 1790s Thom Dunn

music Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" gets a beautiful hand-animated music video Andrea James

Comic Books Talking "Spellbound" with Bishakh Som Jeffery Klaehn

interviews Pandemic: An Interview with The Wire creator David Simon Danny Greenwald