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May 23, 2016
Why Creatives Have The Messiest Rooms
'Creativity thrives in messy environments because these types of rooms allow the creators to draw connections to things that would have never been connected before.' -- +Elite Daily
Lowndes County's Raw Sewage Problem Exposes Environmental Racism
'Rural residents of Lowndes County in Alabama lack access to any form of a sewage system and are therefore exposed to disease. In Lowndes County, this mainly affects poor African-American families. These Third World conditions should not exist in America today. The Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (ACRE) is working to address these issues. ACRE was originally founded in 2002 as a model for addressing poverty in economic development in one of the poorest areas of the nation, ACRE is located in Lowndes County, Alabama. Duke University undergrad Jacob Rosenberg produced this promotional video while researching with the Duke Human Rights Center at FHI.'-- +Duke Franklin Humanities Institute BK Stories: Nia Witherspoon's 'The Messiah Complex' Explores Intersection of Black + LGBTQ Life
'Nia Witherspoon's play The Messiah Complex is written at the socio-political intersection between the LGBTQ and African-American communities, including Black Queer and gender non-conforming populations. The play has it's world premiere performance at BRIC May 20, 21, 25, and 26.' -- +BRIC TV Ziggy Marley Talks the Process + Message of New Self-Titled Album
'Ziggy Marley has released his self titled sixth studio album. The 47-year-old recently tried his hand at acting after taking a break to appear as character "Bones” on CBS series, Hawaii Five-O. “When we were naming the album, I could not find a name, so I called it Ziggy Marley. But after the fact, I kind of realised – I gave it a reason for being that way when I analysed what we had done. How I feel about it is that, on this record, I was engineer, I did all type of things – jobs, that I wouldn’t normally do,” Ziggy Marley said.' -- +africanews
May 22, 2016
#BlackGirlsRock: Adia Victoria Reckons With The South
'Singer and songwriter Adia Victoria grew up under difficult circumstances in South Carolina. Today she uses her music, and the legacy of Southern black women's music, to come to terms with the past and present.' -- +NPR
Rising Up--Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology + Food Justice in Black America
On this episode of
KPFA's Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar
, the host talks with Anthony Ryan Hatch, author of
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
. In the book Hatch argues that the advent of metabolic syndrome signals a new form of “colorblind scientific racism”—a repackaging of race within biomedical and genomic research.
May 21, 2016
You Had Me at Black: Trill Redemption
'Amidst mental illness breaking her family apart, Sharell's Grandmother's love and resilience provided a safe haven.' -- You Had Me at Black: The podcast where Black Millennials tell true-life stories.
Strange Fruit: Sanford Biggers' "Laocoon" Sculpture Unites Fat Albert + Police Shootings + Greek Mythology
'This week on #StrangeFruit hosts Kaila Story and Jaison Gardner are joined by Laocoon's creator, Sanford Biggers, an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and art professor, and Chris Reitz, gallery director of the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute, who brought the exhibit to Louisville. Laocoon, which draws on the story of the Trojan Horse and makes references to contemporary examples of anti-Black violence, is on exhibit at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts through July 2.'
May 20, 2016
A Man’s Game: Inside the Inequality that Plagues Women’s College Sports
'In this episode of Reveal, we’re looking into Title IX, the historic law meant to end gender discrimination in schools. We mostly see this rule play out in school sports, and behind all the fanfare, there's a story of failure. Reporter Annie Brown goes behind the numbers to uncover how female coaches lost control of college sports after Title IX went into effect in the 1970s.' -- +Bitch Media Edge of Sports: The Olympics and the Battle for Rio's Future
'On this episode of Edge of Sports, Dave Zirin sits down with the mayor of Rio Eduardo Paes for a no holds barred discussion about the Olympics, displacement, and corruption, and whether Rio is ready to host the games. Zirin also sits down with Rio-based activist Theresa Williamson from Catalytic Communities, who offers a point-by-point rebuttal to Mayor Paes.'
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