Tag: blue power

• Financial Times

  July 25, 2021

  Become an FT subscriber to read: Virgil Abloh: Louis Vuitton’s expert collaborator and curator of cool An intelligent take on global lifestyle, arts and culture Insightful reads Interviews & reviews… more ›

• It is time to end pushbacks and to abolish Frontex

  June 20, 2021

  An informal migrant camp in Serbia. Photo by Abdul Saboor The European Union’s border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially since the so-called “refugee crisis” of… more ›

• ‘Cultural appropriation is a two-way thing’: Yinka Shonibare on Picasso, masks and the fashion for black artists

  June 15, 2021

  “After Matisse showed Picasso African art for the first time,” he says, “it changed the history of modern art.” This is no hyperbole. It immediately led Picasso to repaint Les Demoiselles… more ›

• ‘A question of dignity’: the pathologist identifying migrants drowned in the Med

  June 6, 2021

  Since 2013, Cattaneo, a professor of forensic pathology and head of Labanof (the laboratory of forensic anthropology and odontology) at the University of Milan, has been committed to putting a name to… more ›

• Zakiya Dalila Harris: ‘Publishing is such a spoofable world’

  June 6, 2021

  Zakiya Dalila Harris was born and raised in Connecticut and is currently based in Brooklyn. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/05/zakiya-dalila-harris-publishing-is-such-a-spoofable-world more ›

• Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

  April 23, 2021

  Crawford does this by bringing us on a global journey, from the mines where the rare earth elements used in computer manufacturing are extracted to the Amazon fulfillment centers where… more ›

• Africa’s Wikipedia Editors Are Changing How the World Sees Their Continent

  April 18, 2021

  There’s more information about the country of France than the entire continent of Africa on Wikipedia, says Sanneh. So, since 2018, the WikiAfrica Education initiative has been working to change that by… more ›

• Burkina Faso ex-president Compaoré to face trial over Thomas Sankara murder

  April 13, 2021

  The exiled former president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried in absentia in for the murder of Thomas Sankara, one of Africa’s most revered post-independence leaders who… more ›

• Remembering the Brixton riots 40 years on

  April 12, 2021

  In April 1981, a simmering tension between the police and Brixton’s black community erupted in violence. Forty years, on Aamna Modhin revisits that weekend with those who witnessed the events… more ›

• Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos

  April 10, 2021

  Last June, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a big promise to help Black YouTubers. “We’re committed to doing better as a platform to center and amplify Black voices and perspectives,”… more ›