Projects tagged
Media
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At the Age of Coronavirus: Rise of Xenophobia and Anti-Asian Racism
Read more: At the Age of Coronavirus: Rise of Xenophobia and Anti-Asian RacismThe global response to COVID-19 has made clear that the fear of contracting disease has an ugly cousin: xenophobia. As the coronavirus has spread from China to other countries, anti-Asian discrimination has followed closely behind, manifesting in plummeting sales at…
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The Ugly Conference
Read more: The Ugly ConferenceLast November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up. “Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to…
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Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test
Read more: Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA TestWASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was positioned to make a strong bid for president in 2020, but she infuriated tribal leaders by releasing the results of a DNA test to prove her Native ancestry and now her future is…
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Activist Artists Hack the New Museum’s Hans Haacke Survey in an Effort to Expose the Museum’s Hidden Capitalist Agenda
Read more: Activist Artists Hack the New Museum’s Hans Haacke Survey in an Effort to Expose the Museum’s Hidden Capitalist AgendaThe long-awaited New Museum retrospective of conceptual art pioneer Hans Haacke fell victim to internet hackers over the weekend trying to make a political point. The intervention drastically skewed the results of an iPad-based artwork that was meant to record…
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‘They Lied to us’: Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murder
Read more: ‘They Lied to us’: Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murderVALDOSTA, Ga. — On an October morning in 2018, Eleanor Holmes and her husband left home to run an errand and found two men inside their front gate. They introduced themselves as detectives from Orlando, Florida, and said they needed…
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Bad News: the game
Read more: Bad News: the gameIn Bad News, you take on the role of fake news-monger. Drop all pretense of ethics and choose a path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. But keep an eye on your ‘followers’ and ‘credibility’ meters. Your…
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Mind Over Media
Read more: Mind Over MediaMind Over Media is a crowdsourced educational platform that contains diverse examples of contemporary propaganda on a wide range of social, political, economic and environmental topics. 1. ACCESS AND SHARE EXAMPLES. Timely resources for classroom discussion are important. By using…
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RAPtivism
Read more: RAPtivismAISHA FUKUSHIMA is a Singer, Speaker, Educator, and ‘RAPtivist’ (rap activist). Fukushima founded RAPtivism (Rap Activism), a hip hop project spanning 20 countries and four continents, amplifying universal efforts for freedom and justice. She is a multilingual, multiracial African American…
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Invisible Women – A World Designed for Men
Read more: Invisible Women – A World Designed for MenThe problem with feminism is that it’s just too familiar. The attention of a jaded public and neophiliac media may have been aroused by #MeToo, with its connotations of youth, sex and celebrity, but for the most part it has…
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Journal Rappé
Read more: Journal RappéA TYPICAL EPISODE of Journal Rappé begins with Senegalese rapper Makhtar “Xuman” Fall dressed in a suit and seated behind a news desk. At first glance, the show looks like an ordinary newscast. But then Xuman (pronounced human) launches into…