By Zina Precht-Rodriguez Columbia University student and EUROM fellow (2017) Cover picture: A statue of Thomas Jefferson hovers over the illuminated phrase, while a black figure hovers in the background. The arduous struggle throughout history between the legal recognition of equal rights for African Americans and the actual implementation of these rights ironically resembles the …
Marina Garde Political scientist and Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) “What we have created here is an antidote to amnesia” Peter N. Carroll, historian Nine years ago, on March 30th, 2008, a national monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was unveiled in San Francisco. Forty feet long and eight feet high, …
Luís Farinha Director of the Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom The Aljube Museum appeared four decades after the fall of the New State, as a result of an awakening from an apparent amnesia of an authoritarian regime that imposed censorship on the thought and creativity of millions of Portuguese people, that deported them and …
