Tag: blue power

• Is China Really Ready for Black Stories?

  April 3, 2021

  Since hitting Chinese theaters last December, the Oscar-nominated Disney-Pixar film “Soul” has pulled in more than 360 million yuan ($55.4 million) nationwide. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1006968/is-china-really-ready-for-black-stories more ›

• The Prices on Your Monopoly Board Hold a Dark Secret

  March 27, 2021

  Take a good look at a Monopoly board. The most expensive properties, Park Place and Boardwalk, are marked in dark blue. Maybe you’ve drawn a card inviting you to “take… more ›

• Portugal must do more to confront colonial past, says Council of Europe

  March 24, 2021

  Europe’s top human rights body has called on Portugal to do more to confront its colonial past and its role in the transatlantic slave trade in order to help fight… more ›

• Opstand & Vrijheid

  January 22, 2021

  Let op: Opstand & Vrijheid is gesloten. Reserveren is mogelijk vanaf 9 februari 2021. Opstand & Vrijheid bestaat uit drie onderdelen, waarin het verhaal van een opstand in context wordt gepresenteerd. Ook is… more ›

• Hundreds of Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru

  December 4, 2020

  Hundreds of Google employees and more than 1,000 academic researchers are speaking out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence said she was fired… more ›

• ‘Tokenized’: Inside Black Workers’ Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups

  November 28, 2020

  “Most people of color working in tech know that there’s a diversity problem,” said Ms. Butler, who resigned in April 2019. “But I’ve never experienced anything like Coinbase.” Much of… more ›

• Steve McQueen: ‘Our Marlon Brandos are on building sites, or driving buses’

  October 3, 2020

  Photographer Misan Harriman is gently cajoling actor Shaun Parkes as the sun burns through the morning cloud above St Michael’s church in Ladbroke Grove, west London. “Look at me as… more ›

• Death of DRC’s Lumumba: ‘The Belgians weren’t the only bad guys’, says daughter Juliana

  September 20, 2020

  A Belgian court announced that it would return Patrice Émery Lumumba’s tooth to his family. Juliana Lumumba, daughter of the hero of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s independence, spoke… more ›

• Modernity + Coloniality

  September 13, 2020

  A free online summer seminar on coloniality and decoloniality Course Instructor: Ahmed Ansari Dates & Times: Every Saturday, 2pm to 3:30pm EST. There are 300 seats in the Zoom session, and… more ›

• Undressing for redress: the significance of Nigerian women’s naked protests

  September 9, 2020

  Social media went abuzz on July 23, 2020, when hundreds of women – mostly naked – staged a protest in the northwestern state of Kaduna, Nigeria. Wailing and rolling on… more ›