Threads of Excellence: NBAF’s Gala Night Weaves the Future of Black Artistry and Fashion
Written by Lisa D. Tinsley As the golden hour descended upon Atlanta on a beautful spring evening, the National Black Arts Festival’s (NBAF) 18th Annual Fine Art + Fashion Benefit unfolded in a spectacle of creativity, culture, and couture, uniting the luminaries of the art and fashion worlds. In an exclusive event reminiscent of…
100 years of radio in Africa: from propaganda to people’s power
Sisanda Nkoala, Associate professor, University of the Western Cape; Christina Chan-Meetoo, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Mauritius; Jacinta Mwende Maweu, Senior lecturer in Philosophy and Media Studies, University of Nairobi; Marissa J. Moorman, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University; Modestus Fosu, Associate Professor in Language and Communication Studies, University of Media, Arts…
‘No cash accepted’ signs are bad news for millions of unbanked Americans
Jay L. Zagorsky = Clinical Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University How many people don’t have a bank account? And just how difficult has it become to live without one? These questions are becoming increasingly important as more businesses refuse to take cash in cities across the U.S. People without bank accounts are…
Community radio: young South Africans are helping shape the news through social media
Sisanda Nkoala – Senior Lecturer, University of South Africa Blessing Makwambeni – Senior Lecturer in Communication Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Trust Matsilele – Lecturer in Journalism, Cape Peninsula University of Technology The number of South African internet users has nearly doubled in the past decade. One 2023 study of 45 developed countries suggests that South Africans even…
Kora: in search of the origins of west Africa’s famed stringed musical instrument
Eric Charry – Professor of Music, Wesleyan University “How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his peers probably felt after watching the extraordinary documentary Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales. The film follows Sissoko, a world…
Opera in Cape Town: critics trace how a colonial art form was reinvented as African
Wayne Muller – Publications Editor / Research Fellow (Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation), Stellenbosch University Many people thought that classical opera in South Africa – regarded as a western, colonial art form that was the preserve of white people during apartheid – would die with democracy in 1994. Instead the opposite happened. Black singers…
A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball − today, no Black majority owners remain
Jared Bahir Browsh – Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder For the first time in 20 years, the NBA began its season with no Black-owned franchises. In fact, there’s been only one Black majority-owned team in league history. In late 2002, the NBA awarded an expansion team, the Charlotte Bobcats,…
There’s a financial literacy gender gap − and older women are eager for education that meets their needs
Lila Rabinovich – Social scientist, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Every day, families across the U.S. have to make difficult decisions about budgeting, spending, insurance, investments, savings, retirement and on and on. When faced with these choices, financial literacy – that is, knowing how to make informed decisions about money – is…
We analyzed over 3.5 million written teacher comments about students and found racial bias
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. Angus Kittelman, Kent McIntosh, Maria Reina Santiago-Rosario and David Markowitz Written teacher comments about students can show implicit racial or ethnic and gender biases in school discipline, according to our recent study. To identify these biases, we analyzed more than 3.5 million teacher comments about students from…
Giraffes range across diverse African habitats − we’re using GPS, satellites and statistics to track and protect them
Michael Brown – Conservation Science Fellow, Smithsonian Institution Nearly 6,000 years ago, our ancestors climbed arid rocky outcrops in what is now the Nigerian Sahara and carved spectacularly intricate, larger-than-life renditions of giraffes into the exposed sandstone. The remarkably detailed Dabous giraffe rock art petroglyphs are among many ancient petroglyphs featuring giraffes across Africa – a testament…
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