NYT Justifies Casting Black Cleopatra amid Controversy: She Was ‘Culturally Black’
Cleopatra was “culturally black,” according to a recent New York Times piece facing accusations of “blackwashing” history.

Cleopatra was “culturally black,” according to a recent New York Times piece facing accusations of “blackwashing” history.
Ireland is to use its annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations to promote “diversity” and drag queens, an official announcement has revealed.
A majority of British and European Union nationals want Europe to preserve its Christian culture and worry about illegal immigration, polling suggests.
Greetings such as “aloha” and “shalom” are “culturally sensitive” and their use could “come off as mockery,” according to a recent USA Today piece.
Of all the folk tales and fables to accompany the Christmas season, few have achieved the level of immortality of “The Nutcracker,” which is all the more reason why it should never be cancelled.
Italy´s most famous opera house opens Russia’s ‘Boris Godunov’ tonight, sparking protests and allegations of a propaganda win for the Kremlin.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) praised “My Son Hunter” as “compelling, gripping art” providing “ammunition” in the context of America’s culture war on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Alex Marlow hosted a roundtable discussion examining “My Son Hunter,” featuring Robert Davi, John James, Phelim McAleer, and Ann McElhinney.
“Part of me wonders whether or not he’s an actor,” John James said of Joe Biden, the subject of his portrayal in My Son Hunter.
King Charles III has been formally proclaimed as monarch following a meeting of the ancient Accession Council in St James’s Palace.
“We put ourselves on the line, culturally,” veteran actor Robert Davi, director of “My Son Hunter,” said on Thursday during an interview with Benny Johnson on the latter’s eponymous podcast.
Actor Laurence Fox said Great Britain is “infected” with “woke ideologies” – including “critical race theory” – exported by America.
Tim Pool, host of the popular eponymous “Timcast IRL” podcast, heralded the production of “My Son Hunter” as an important example of creating cultural content to compete with and dissent from the woke corporate entertainment establishment.
Britain’s Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) has dropped ballet from auditions because it is “built around white European ideas” and is too “gendered”.
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) – The third bull run of Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival ended Saturday with the event’s first gorings of the year.
Climate extremists from the Just Stop Oil group have glued themselves to artworks by Vincent van Gogh and William Turner, to blackmail the government into halting fossil fuel projects.
Trent Talbot, an ophthalmologist who launched a children’s book publishing company, told Breitbart News he became aware of a cultural war being waged over the raising of children after viewing the trailer for Cuties and seeing Amazon book sales for Ibram X Kendi’s Antiracist Baby.
Jack Posobiec, senior editor at Human Events, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that entertainment companies like Disney are willing to lose money on projects like Lightyear in order to advance leftist politics in American culture and beyond.
As well as economic sanctions on Russia, several attempts to isolate the Eurasian state culturally are also underway.
Thousands of performers, cinema operators, event organizers and others joined together Sunday to protest COVID restrictions in Brussels.
Of all the folk tales, pageants, legends, and fables to accompany Christmas, few have achieved the level of immortality as “The Nutcracker.”
The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry said his satirical website enjoys some “secret fans” among “A-list Hollywood stars.”
Jessica Vaugn, a former Playboy playmate, told Breitbart News that Playboy’s use of a male on the cover of its October issue is illustrative of the magazine’s decline in relevance.
China’s state-run gaming association recently issued new guidelines banning video games that depict homosexual relationships, “effeminate males,” and characters that with no “clear gender,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday.
Cliff Sims, singer-songwriter and former communications advisor to former President Donald Trump, joined Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow to discuss his latest song, “U, Ur Mom, & Me,” which tells the story of he and his wife’s adoption of a 3-year-old boy from an orphanage in Colombia.
The Taliban terror group’s reconquering of Kabul on Sunday broke the “shackles” of a “cultural enslavement” Afghanistan endured since the U.S. invaded the country in 2001, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a hardline Islamist, argued on Monday.
Dissident artists will save American culture from politicization and centralization in the entertainment industry, Amanda Milius said.
A South Korean public broadcaster was forced to issue an apology on Monday after social media users accused the TV station of using “inappropriate” images and commentary during its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on July 23, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
An Islamic Studies teacher has been convicted of sexually assaulting two girls and a boy in Birmingham, England.
Thunderstorms hit Germany late Monday and torrential rain poured down on southern and western parts of the country.
For the first time in two years, the Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Saturday, pitting the countries of Europe (and some invited interlopers, like the American rapper Flo-Rida) against each other to see who can write the catchiest pop song of the year.
The funeral of Second World War veteran Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband of over seven decades and Britain’s longest-serving consort, took place at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle on Saturday.
The Senate on Wednesday passed the Stop FGM Act to give federal law enforcement more authority to prosecute those who perpetrate the act.
Xi Jinping’s most recent book urges Chinese people to use the “charm of Chinese culture” to promote Marxism, the human rights magazine Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday, promoting an ideology developed in Western Europe with no significant ties to Chinese culture prior to Mao Zedong’s seizure of power.
The British Library has added George Orwell, Lord Bryon, Ted Hughes, and others to a list of shame for cultural figures with supposed links to slavery.
Artist Maggi Hambling has defended a modernist statue to feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) derided by conservatives, traditionalists, and committed feminists alike.
The leader of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has vowed the country will not be “blackmailed” into giving up its “identity” or “freedom” by the European Union.
Mark Levin said senior citizens have a responsibility to the next generation to usher in an America with more freedom, prosperity, and strength than the country they inherited, sharing his comments on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Sheffield Cathedral has announced it will close down its current choir to ready itself “for the exciting future of the mixed urban community in which we live and work.”
The Conservative government of Boris Johnson has rejected a petition to protect Britain’s statues and monuments, saying they are “satisfied” with the supposed protections already in place.