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Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002) isn’t a household name in the history of US politics. The short documentary Mink! (2022), which offers an entertaining and inspiring brief history of her life, makes a powerful argument that she ought to be. Combining archival footage and the loving narration of her daughter Wendy Mink, the Canadian director Ben Proudfoot traces how the Hawaiian-born Mink beat the odds to become the first-ever woman of colour elected to the US Congress, and how her legacy of fighting for equality lives on in Title IX – a law that ushered in a revolution in women’s collegiate sports.
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Food and drink
Local tensions simmer amid a potato salad contest at the Czech-Polish border
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War and peace
A war meteorologist’s riveting account of how the Allies averted a D-Day disaster
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Information and communication
An animation built from road signs is a whirlwind study of flash communication
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Art
Creating art that was aware of itself – and the viewer – made Manet the first modernist
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Biotechnology
It’s our responsibility to engineer corals that can weather the world we’ve created
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War and peace
A century later, can poetry help us make sense of the First World War’s horrors?
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Language and linguistics
The little Peruvian guide to public speaking that conjures up a grandiose world
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The ancient world
Archeological discoveries animate the life of the warrior queen who took on Rome
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Biography and memoir
Preserving memories of a Japanese internment camp, and the land where it stood
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