Ebola, Cholera, and the Epidemiology of Anti-Blackness or, Black Lives Don’t Matter
The ravages of Ebola in West Africa and of cholera in Haiti – and the world’s response to both – remind us that the scourge of anti-Blackness is savage, deadly,…
Futebol team in Bahia releases a “black Wonder Woman” mascot in the midst of racial controversies on the soccer pitch
Together We Make Football
Together We Make Football
On the NFL’s dark, intractable history of domestic violence…
Archie Shepp – Live At The Pan-African Festival
Archie Shepp – Live At The Pan-African Festival
From the 21st of July to the 1st of August 1969 the First Pan-African Cultural Festival was held in Algiers, Algeria’s capital. The Festival was organized by…
A Retrospective Of Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s “Black, African, Homosexual Photography” In London
A Retrospective Of Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s “Black, African, Homosexual Photography” In London
“But the exploitative mythologising of Black virility on behalf of the homosexual bourgeoisie is ultimately no different from the vulgar objectification of Africa which we know at one extreme from the work of Leni Riefenstahl and, at the other from the ‘victim’ images which appear constantly in the media. It is now time for us to reappropriate such images and to transform them ritualistically into images of our own creation. For me, this involves an imaginative investigation of Blackness, maleness and sexuality, rather than more straightforward reportage.”
United Kingdämmerung
United Kingdämmerung
What happened to the English that turned them into the most evil people on the planet? There’s not much in their national prehistory to explain the horrors that…
Ebola, mistrust and humanitarian mobility? by Adia Benton
Ebola, mistrust and humanitarian mobility? by Adia Benton
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Is black in style now? Brazilian rap and funk, the latest black art forms to suffer cultural appropriation
Is black in style now? Brazilian rap and funk, the latest black art forms to suffer cultural appropriation.
Complexo do Alemão Fights Back: Residents Protest on Social Media
Complexo do Alemão Fights Back: Residents Protest on Social Media
Residents from Complexo do Alemão launched a Twitter campaign to alert the media of the shootouts that have been rampant in the community since the end of the…