Media & Culture

Analyzing how race is shaped through media and pop culture.

What MLK Boulevards Teach Us About Collective Forgetting
A green street sign of MLK boulevard on the corner of a street.

What MLK Boulevards Teach Us About Collective Forgetting
Andrew Lee
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The memorialization of social justices leaders and victims, as in the case of MLK boulevards, is meaningless without systemic change.

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Media & Culture Neighborhoods
1798 1126 Andrew Lee
The Growing Threat of Police Surveilling Social Media
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The Growing Threat of Police Surveilling Social Media
Kim M Reynolds
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Police surveillance of social media often relies on data riddled with human error or interpreted with bias, which harms communities of color.

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Media & Culture Technology
2400 1600 Kim M Reynolds
How Philanthropy Upholds White Supremacy
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How Philanthropy Upholds White Supremacy
Jessamyn Shams-Lau
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Understanding how philanthropy works is vital when advocating for change and more diversified power over how money flows to our communities.

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Media & Culture
1920 1282 Jessamyn Shams-Lau
The Perils of Mexican Journalism and the Role of the U.S.
A person holding a protest poster squats to fix a candle memorial for one of nine Mexican journalists killed recently.

The Perils of Mexican Journalism and the Role of the U.S.
Dawn Marie Paley
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The influx of Mexican journalists killed in the past decade are deeply connected to the U.S., which has backed the policies that increased their risk of reporting.

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Media & Culture Politics
2118 1398 Dawn Marie Paley
The Cruelty of Hostile Architecture
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The Cruelty of Hostile Architecture
Andrew Lee
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Hostile architecture is an inhumane corporate and governmental response to the unhoused crisis that started in the 1980s. 

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Media & Culture Neighborhoods
2400 1600 Andrew Lee
Why Checking In On Your Coworker Often Falls Flat
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Why Checking In On Your Coworker Often Falls Flat
Nicole Cardoza
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Is it appropriate to check in with a friend or colleague to show support in the aftermath of a major attack against a marginalized community?

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Media & Culture Workplace
2400 1600 Nicole Cardoza
Reject the Use of Reductive Statements in Social Discourse
An line illustration of a person with curly hair looking at a cellphone in distress.

Reject the Use of Reductive Statements in Social Discourse
Dominique Stewart
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Reductive statements in political and social discourse don’t help resolve these injustices but further uphold a broken, inequitable system.

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Media & Culture Social Justice
2400 1600 Dominique Stewart
Please Don’t Have a Plantation Wedding and Other Atrocities in U.S. Culture
A hand holds a bouquet of cotton, lavender, and eucalyptus. On top is two gold wedding rings.

Please Don’t Have a Plantation Wedding and Other Atrocities in U.S. Culture
Andrew Lee
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Estranging historical tragedies like slavery and genocide as relics of the past, unrelated to modern times, wrongly validates the hosting of plantation weddings and other cruelties in U.S history.

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History Media & Culture
2400 1600 Andrew Lee
Respect the Roots of Black Hair
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Respect the Roots of Black Hair
Team ARD
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Cultural appropriation of Black hairstyles is harmful, considering how Black people continue to experience hair discrimination.

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Media & Culture
2400 1529 Team ARD
The Misuse of “Wokeness” Under White Supremacy
A bronze statue of a face doing the "hush" sign with their finger on their lips. A stack of books sits on a counter in the background blurred out.

The Misuse of “Wokeness” Under White Supremacy
Nicole Cardoza
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The use of the phrase “woke” has strayed far from its roots and has been co-opted by conservatives and mainstream culture to discredit calls for accountability and justice.

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Media & Culture Politics
2400 1602 Nicole Cardoza
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