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Darold Cuba’s Biography

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Darold can usually be found exploring the intersections of race, class, technology and culture in context to history, anthropological institutions and systems, and other varying human structures the world over.

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Indigenous scholar's work informs new Columbia University + Wikipedia Initiatives

Indigenous scholar's work informs new Columbia University + Wikipedia Initiatives

In this reflection on Dr. Lorina Barker's recent lecture at OHMA, Wikipedia Fellow and Wikimedian-In-Residenc…

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The Importance of Preserving the Histories of Freedmen's Towns

The Importance of Preserving the Histories of Freedmen's Towns

Long before American primetime audiences were introduced to freedom colonies through the ancestral histories …

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Wikimedia to the Rescue? How Wikipedia's Crowdsourcing Model Could Catalyze the Field of Oral His...

Wikimedia to the Rescue? How Wikipedia's Crowdsourcing Model Could Catalyze the Field of Oral His...

Can the Wikimedia platform, tools and model help solve Oral History's biggest problem - transcribing and digi…

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Trauma, Then Triumph: The New York Times College Scholarship Program, 2017

Trauma, Then Triumph: The New York Times College Scholarship Program, 2017

CREDITS: A @GEEKOmni Production •Co-Producers: @DaroldCuba & @DougieDistefano •Co-Directors: @DaroldCuba & …

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RZA Accompanies 'The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'

RZA Accompanies 'The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'

RZA watched the Shaw Brothers' martial arts classic "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin" for the first time on telev…

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By the Numbers: Butting In, and Going On, Trump Dominates

By the Numbers: Butting In, and Going On, Trump Dominates

An earlier version of this article, using a transcript provided by the Federal News Service that was missing …

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The Importance of Preserving the Histories of Freedmen's Towns

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By Erika L. Thompson, Darold Cuba, Britt Salvesen
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Long before American primetime audiences were introduced to freedom colonies through the ancestral histories of celebrities like Michael Strahan in Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ series, Finding Your Roots, freedom colonies around the world have been documenting, preserving, and sharing their histories—including Houston’s own Freedmen’s Town, also known as The Fourth Ward.
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RZA Accompanies ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’

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By Darold Cuba
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RZA watched the Shaw Brothers’ martial arts classic “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” for the first time on television when he was 12 years old. Two years later, he saw the 1978 movie on the big screen “in a seedy Times Square theater on 42nd Street,” he recalled. He went with his cousin Russell Tyrone Jones, who would grow up to become the rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Photographer for my middle school’s yearbook

Have you ever used a typewriter?

to try it out, just to feel what it was like as my elders regaled us with stories of using them while growing up...

How is social media changing news?

it democratizes access and deconstructs gateholder narratives
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