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Afro Story: Africana at the push of a button
20 Feb 2021
Polar pioneer: Matthew A Henson’s book, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, is available on the Afro Story app. Photo: Bettmann
The Afro Story App, which brings together 50 texts many of them classic Africana to your phone, aims to have a profound influence on the way literature is consumed.
Born from conversations between public-health specialist John Ashmore and Hombakazi Nqandeka, the app curates texts that are in the public domain because of lapsed copyright, making them available for easy consumption through an Android smartphone.
The app is downloadable at a cost of R43 on Google Play. Users can pay using a credit or debit card, or even with airtime.
Kevin Young on Protecting and Preserving Black History
February 17, 2021
Born in Harlem, James Baldwin wrote often of his beginnings here, including his reading “every single book” in the transformative space now known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. “I went to the 135th Street library at least three or four times a week, and I read everything here. I mean, every single book in that library,” Baldwin wrote. “In some blind and instinctive way, I knew that what was happening in those books was also happening all around me. And I was trying to make a connection between the books and the life I saw and the life I lived.”
He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
Rachel Poser, New York Times, February 2, 2021
In the world of classics, the exchange between Dan-el Padilla Peralta and Mary Frances Williams has become known simply as “the incident.” Their back-and-forth took place at a Society of Classical Studies conference in January 2019 the sort of academic gathering at which nothing tends to happen that would seem controversial or even interesting to those outside the discipline. But that year, the conference featured a panel on “The Future of Classics,” which, the participants agreed, was far from secure. On top of the problems facing the humanities as a whole vanishing class sizes caused by disinvestment, declining prominence and student debt classics was also experiencing a crisis of identity. Long revered as the foundation of “Western civilization,” the field was trying to shed its self-imposed reputation as an elitist subject overwhelmingly taught and s
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