Tag: blue power

• How the Uffizi Gallery Is Highlighting Black Figures in Renaissance Art

  July 8, 2020

  Many of the images widely associated with the Italian Renaissance—think Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam—are dominated by white… more ›

• ‘The Invisibles’: Unseen footage of Italy’s migrant labourers at peak of COVID-19

  July 5, 2020

  Those are the words of Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Ivorian living in Italy whose work as a union leader to fight for the rights of over 200,000 migrant labourers – mostly… more ›

• When Haiti paid France for freedom: the greatest heist in history

  July 2, 2020

  In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, there have been calls for defunding police departments and demands for the removal of statues. The issue of reparations for slavery has also… more ›

• Inside Kanye West’s Vision for the Future

  July 1, 2020

  First he changed the sound of popular music. Then he revolutionized fashion and sneakers. Now, Kanye West is redesigning the very building blocks of family life—food, clothing, and shelter—and he’s… more ›

• America’s Enduring Caste System

  July 1, 2020

  We saw a man face down on the pavement, pinned beneath a car, and above him another man, a man in uniform, his skin lighter than the man on the… more ›

• From the Magazine: ‘It Is Time for Reparations’

  June 28, 2020

  It feels different this time. Black Americans protesting the violation of their rights are a defining tradition of this country. In the last century, there have been hundreds of uprisings… more ›

• Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful

  June 27, 2020

  The first question I asked Ta-Nehisi Coates during our recent conversation on The Ezra Klein Show was broad: What does he see right now, as he looks out at the… more ›

• The push to redefine “good design” amid the Black Lives Matter movement

  June 27, 2020

  Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. In 2015, Nextdoor, the location-based social networking app, gained a reputation as a locus of racial profiling. Users were sending alerts… more ›

• How the UK’s “fund of funds” influences investment financing in Africa with a long view

  June 21, 2020

  Major international banks and private equity (PE) houses have been reducing their exposure to Africa in the past few years, but, thankfully for the continent’s startups, not everyone is retreating.… more ›

• Gender Shades

  June 20, 2020

  How well do IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ AI services guess the gender of a face? Explore Results MIT Media Lab Press Kit https://gendershades.org/ more ›