A look back on Catan’s lasting legacy following the death of designer Klaus Teuber.
(Got wood for sheep?)
S5.26 “African Royalty Games” with Nyadenya Inyagwa
African Royalty Games
Resources for games that can be played with African Royalty Games Counting Deck.
Akashinga - People, Planet, Future
Akashinga means ‘the Brave Ones’ in Zimbabwe’s Shona language. We centralise social impact around the advancement of women's leadership to achieve nature conservation at scale.
We believe that supporting people to protect the planet in the places they call home will ultimately create a sustainable future for us all.
Akashinga receives donations from a portion of the sales of African Royalty Games.
HeroicType
Deviant art is hard to navigate, so here you are.
Melnea Cass was a civil rights activist
Melnea Agnes Cass was affectionately known as the “First Lady of Roxbury”.
A lot of Bostonians may only know her name due to the tent cities of addicts near the thoroughfare named in her honor.
Jim posits that it should instead be referred to as “Sackler Square”.
The legacy of Occupy Boston, ten years later
Podcast discusses how Occupy’s message about social and economic inequality changed how many Americans think and talk about economic inequality today.
Dopesick
An award-winning 2021 miniseries based on the non-fiction book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy.
The series focuses on how the opioid epidemic started and the people in the U.S. who were impacted by it.
Snowfall
Snowfall ran for six seasons from 2017 to 2023.
Primarily set in Los Angeles between the years 1983 and 1986, the series follows the lives of an African American crime family as they navigate ways to make money selling crack cocaine during the 1980s crack epidemic in South Central Los Angeles. The series also explores the CIA's involvement in the fight against communism in Nicaragua.
Sankoré: The Pride of Mansa Musa
A board game is set in West Africa in the 14th Century, and is based on its namesake university in Timbuktu.
You’ve been tasked with spreading knowledge by the emperor, Mansa Musa, and during the game you’ll be teaching students, adding courses to your curriculum, and adding books to the shelves of the great library. All of this takes place on the four areas of the main board, each of which is related to the four main subject areas in the game: Astronomy, Mathematics, Theology, and Law.
Coded Bias
A documentary about artificial intelligence and the biases that can be embedded into the technology.