Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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Ms. Marvel Bus Ad Defacement
Read more: Ms. Marvel Bus Ad DefacementRacist adverts promoting hatred against Muslims are currently being run on buses in San Francisco – but someone has started covering them up with anti-hatred messages from Marvel’s première Muslim superhero, Ms. Marvel. The adverts were purchased by the American…
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German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves
Read more: German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against ThemselvesThe tiny German town of Wunsiedel has for decades seen crowds of neo-Nazis pass through its streets in annual demonstrations, but this year something was different. While the extremists received a frigid welcome in past years, they were met with…
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How Nina Simone turned the movement into music
Read more: How Nina Simone turned the movement into musicMy skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a…
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Department of Invitations
Read more: Department of InvitationsFilling Stomachs to Open Minds on Immigration In Sweden, Dinners Melt Cultural Barriers STOCKHOLM — Last year, when Ebba Akerman, 31, was teaching Swedish to immigrants in the suburbs of this city, she ran into one of her students on…
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Mapping skin deep
Read more: Mapping skin deep“Mapping skin deep” is an audiovisual public installation consisting of portraits with testimonies from refugee/undocumented immigrants currently residing in Montreal and elsewhere. Their bodies have been scarred in post-production tracing the route they took from their homeland to Montreal, hence…
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3,000 Candles at the Lincoln Memorial #SoAllCanVote
Read more: 3,000 Candles at the Lincoln Memorial #SoAllCanVoteAt the same site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, we lit thousands of candles – one for each signature on our petition – to commemorate the legacy of brave freedom fighters Andrew…
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Immigrant Movement International
Read more: Immigrant Movement InternationalImmigrant Movement International (IM) is a community space in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Founded in 2011 as a partnership between artist Tania Bruguera and the Queens Museum, with support from Creative Time, the project, inspired by Bruguera’s…
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The Sugar Sphinx
Read more: The Sugar SphinxOver the past twenty-five years or so, ever since her spectacular New York début at the Drawing Center, in 1994, the now forty-four-year-old artist Kara Walker’s visual production—sculptures, cutouts, drawings, films—has been diaristic in tone. But the diary Walker keeps…
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The Dark Side of Creative Activism – Sudanese Refugees in Tel Aviv
Read more: The Dark Side of Creative Activism – Sudanese Refugees in Tel AvivUnfortunately, those who struggle for a more equal and democratic society are not the only ones who can make use of creative forms of activism. The following example shows how creative strategies can also be employed by those who have…
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Florida Modern Slavery Museum
Read more: Florida Modern Slavery MuseumIn December 2008, farm labor contractors Cesar and Geovanni Navarrete were each sentenced to twelve years in prison for their part in what U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy called “slavery, plain and simple.” According to the Justice Department, the employers “pleaded…