Senegal.
Students expelled the Israeli ambassador at the largest university in Senegal, Cheikh Anta Diop University, from the university premises, where he had come to attend a conference on international relations.
The indictment that Sly Stone articulated on his album “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” is: When will you realize that your country is a myth? And, if you already have, what might you do next?
African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say
theconversation.com/african-pris...
The blockbuster horror film "Sinners" features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, impactful scene. For some Choctaw, it is the first time they've heard their language and seen their culture accurately portrayed on screen.
White billionaire from her yacht cites Audre Lorde in defence of a white writer for a Far Right newspaper complaining about the criticism she got for her bigoted attack on a woman of colour.
What times!
If you were curious about how Ryan Coogler and his team constructed that musical sequence in Sinners, here’s a clip of him explaining it.
(Via The NY Times 😒)
German Foreign Office just updated its travel advice to the US. Germans are explicitly warned for arrest, detention and deportation when traveling to the US.
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...
In 1885, in one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in U.S. history, a white mob killed at least 28 Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming, and burned down the town’s Chinese quarter. @michaelluo.bsky.social writes about the little-known atrocity.
A new $15 million jazz fellowship is granting 50 artists over the age of 62 a $100,000 grant, professional support and performance opportunities
Gene Hackman, 95, and pianist wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, found dead at home with their dog
Poverty is on the rise across the African continent. The pain, however, is not evenly distributed.
On average, lived poverty is at its worst level in a quarter-century of Afrobarometer surveys.
In an essay from 2017, Toni Morrison, who was born on this day, in 1931, recalled some lessons on work that she gleaned from her father. nyer.cm/1otRPRB
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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“The project keeping Nigeria’s photographic history alive” wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/lago...
“…offering an alternative view, a counterbalance to disembodied news images or iconic shots that all too often come to represent complex places and peoples.”
“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”
During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Scholars of civil resistance study what happens when mainstream political institutions break down and the people rise up.
Our recording of the presentations from the 2025 Working Papers Series: Postdoc Roundtable, is now available on our Vimeo page! The presentations cover topics incl. community archives, restoration projects of media arts, artists books, & feminist film festivals.
vimeo.com/1053869416
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1962. #NewYorkerArchive
Rise & Shine with Blue Note classics to ease you into your day like Lee Morgan’s sublime “Ceora” from the great trumpeter’s 1965 album “Cornbread”: bluenote.lnk.to/RiseAndShine
A new publication to keep an eye out for: Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World: Practice and Methods (2025), an open-access anthology on film festivals that features a full section on the archival turn and includes many contributions from A/CA members. Check it out! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
@dieworkwear.bsky.social how are his pants staying in place like this? 👖💫
