Tag: pop culture

• 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 Disruptive World of Edward Norton

  October 13, 2019

  Edward Norton’s intense, cerebral presence in a film has always been a fairly reliable indicator that you’re going to see something good. In recent years, though, Norton’s onscreen performances have… 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 ›

• Pop’s need for speed: ‘You have to drop new stuff constantly’

  September 19, 2019

  The music industry in 2019, says Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis, could be compared to a Pez dispenser. He is not talking about big heads – rather, the seemingly endless, instantly… more ›

• How Much of the New American Songbook Will Be Sung in Spanish?

  September 14, 2019

  Is it really possible that today’s Latino musicians will be remembered primarily via the dude from Matchbox Twenty? Slate’s New American Songbook, a project dedicated to predicting which songs from… more ›

• The illuminating absence of Donald Trump

  August 29, 2019

  Much has already been said, and much will continue to surface on our media feeds in the future about Dave Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” Netflix special. What has been said… more ›

• Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

  August 21, 2019

  It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as… 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 ›

• TikTok’s Videos Are Goofy. Its Strategy to Dominate Social Media Is Serious.

  July 3, 2019

  China’s first big hit in the U.S. uses an advanced algorithm to personalize its addictive video-sharing app, and parent Bytedance’s enormous ad spending on Snap, Facebook and Instagram aims to… more ›