The campus and city news desks have compiled a list of events going on throughout the upcoming week that are open to the public. The list features art events, a
Black Contemporary Art Online
Aesthetica teams up with ISE-DA â a trailblazing platform promoting Black visual arts culture â to highlight the best digital exhibitions, online galleries and videos. Established for young creatives, collectors and enthusiasts of Black African descent, ISE-DA aims to cultivate a pioneering new generation of creatives who are interested, invested and informed about art across the Diaspora. February is Black History Month in the US; many of their selected links are essential resources to educate and inspire.
Africa. The Caribbean. USA.
Afrosoul celebrates an emerging, global 21st century African Diasporic visual culture. Featured above is work by Cuban artist Rene Pena (b. 1957), whose photography is characterised by stark contrasts and a focus on individuality. Other creatives include Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959), whose renowned installations incorporate portraits of anonymous African Americans from between the Emancipation Proclamation and t
Antiwar.com Original
There’s a whole mess of bloody messes around the world that few Americans care about. In fact, they could form a whole category of conflict labeled: Top Ten Violent Hot Spots You’ve Never Heard Of (But Should Have). The list might include, for starters, Nigeria’s resource war between herders and farmers (six times deadlier than the country’s well-publicized Boko Haram conflict in 2018); South Sudan’s dormant – for now – civil war (400,000 killed from 2013-18); and the Indo-Pakistani contest for Kashmir (70,000 dead in just the internal conflict over 30 years). Recently, I wrote four columns about another prime candidate – the Armenian-Azerbaijani war for