Tag: blue power

• Documenting American segregation at the Berlin Wall

  November 9, 2019

  On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city’s western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed… more ›

• How colonial rule committed Africa to fragile authoritarianism

  November 4, 2019

  The impact of colonial rule on sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the subject of intense debate and controversy. Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure… more ›

• Moneta Sleet: The great black photographer you’ve never heard of

  October 28, 2019

  It’s 50 years since photographer Moneta Sleet became the first African American to win a Pulitzer prize for journalism. Has his work received the recognition it deserves? https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50186270 more ›

• The Cruelty Is the Point

  October 27, 2019

  The Museum of African-American History and Culture is in part a catalog of cruelty. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/ more ›

• Despite Mixed Track Record, Google Says It’s Trying to Make Products More Inclusive

  October 10, 2019

  A small team at Google is trying to make sure products are designed for a diverse set of users. https://fortune.com/2019/10/08/google-product-inclusion-team-ai-bias/ more ›

• Archiving Britain’s Black Communities There’s no limit to our culture

  October 9, 2019

  Before the internet, family photo albums brought out on special occasions would hold the memories of Britain’s Black communities. https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/black-in-the-day/ more ›

• FKA twigs: ‘An incredible woman always in the shadow of a man? I can relate’

  September 28, 2019

  FKA twigs lives in a real house, in the real world, though this seems hard to believe. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/28/fka-twigs-in-shadow-of-man-robert-pattinson-surgery-new-album-miranda-sawyer more ›

• A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

  August 29, 2019

  In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at… more ›

• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

  August 21, 2019

  I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html more ›

• The horrific consequences of rubber’s toxic past

  July 24, 2019

  The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can’t take in what they are. In the… more ›