Black

Out loud

• Myles Loftin’s ‘HOODED’ project seeks to humanise Black boys and men in hoodies
• The art of Kenneth Harris
• An interview with me
• Read 35 screenplays from some of the most iconic Black movies of the 90s
• James Baldwin′s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
• Ashley Clark’s Afrofuturist film series on Criterion Channel
• An interview with Jamar Ramos
• Queer Design Club: a hub of queer creativity
• Darth Vader as you’ve never heard him before
• The influence of palm trees in Western Africa
• Ivan McClellan’s photography of black cowboys in America
• Jason Okundaye on the ‘narcissism of queer influencer activists’
• A brief history of Black actresses fighting for sci-fi roles
• Black Creative Ecosystems: from Google Sheets to digital garden
• The Wayland Rudd Collection depicts the ties between the USSR and Black liberation
• Sophia Tassew on the need for equality as a standard in fashion
• Monique Wells talks to Atlas Obscura about ‘Entrée to Black Paris’
• Black Film Archive’s Black History Month film list
• JSTOR’s Black History Month article picks
• Ejatu Shaw on Black joy and her work of representation and authenticity
• The Marginalian on James Baldwin and long distance love
• The Index of African American Artists
• The forgotten diaspora of Chinese-Jamaicans
• When Duke magazine came and went in the 1950s
• Is ‘slave-free’ chocolate really slave-free?
• HOME: a Black-owned artist-led space for Black and Indigenous People of Colour
• Hey Gerald basketball figure
• The best of Johnson from Peep Show
• Sharine Taylor on Michael Ford and the role of architecture in hip hop
• Joanne the Scammer said…
• Achille Mbembe on planetary consciousness
• Jamaican Stout ice cream
• 5 Black airport architects
• Iconic Blaxploitation posters
• The Afrofuturistic fashions of Iriké Jones
• Black & Gold II
• Jean-Michel Basquiat is getting a new biopic called ‘Samo Lives’
• Never Aired: Profile on James Baldwin ABC’s 20/20 (1979)
• An interview with ‘Women of Colour in Japan’ director, Amarachi Nwosu
• Language Log discovers the word ‘yeet’ (and so do I, kinda)
• A directory of Black designers from around the world
• bell hooks (1952–2021)
• What’s a ‘jawn’? Well, it could be anything.
• Rianna Jade Parker on the changing perceptions of Black British art
• Phaidon’s ‘African Artists: From 1882 to Now’
• Living While Black, in Japan
• Tobi Kyeremateng on the joy of Nigerian childhood parties
• Black Film Archive
• The African origins of Yasuke’s name
• ‘We Are History’ examines the links between art, colonialism and climate change
• How to make Jamaican rum punch with Wray and Nephew (recipe)
• The creative direction of Tyler Adams
• ‘Bold Black British’, curated by Aindrea Emelife
• A UK Black History Month Post (2021)
• Rhea Dillon on ‘Nonbody Nonthing No Thing’, her debut solo exhibition
• Carvell Wallace on Candyman and the exploitation of Black pain in cinema
• Tina M. Campt’s ‘A Black Gaze’
• Kyndall Cunningham’s interview with filmmaker Ashley O’Shay
• Black British people from the Windrush era are the focus of a new photo exhibition at Wrest Park
• 9/21/21
• Zito Madu on learning French
• The pioneering designs of Thomas Miller
• Rikki Byrd on the anti-Black history of American department stores
• Community through food from people of colour
• Johnson Eziefula on his art and his relationship with identity
• Sampira on Britain’s Art(ifact) Problem
• Sonya Clark’s Black hair art
• ‘Barbican Stories’ details racism experienced by current and former employees at the Barbican
• It’s time for the Wheel of Prizes!
• Observer on The Rock’s Jungle Movie Cinematic Universe
• gal-dem on visual artists depicting life in Jamaica
• Zinesters of colour discuss the forgotten origins of their work
• Brasilândia: a platform for Black and LGBTQIA+ communities in São Paulo
• Shout out to Zaila Avant-garde, the first African-American National Spelling Bee champion
• Black Archives: a multimedia showcase of the Black experience
• The celebratory art of Aurélia Durand
• Happy birthday, Octavia Butler! Here’s an exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming biography
• Nina Banks on Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and her ideas on economic justice
• Black titles from The Criterion Collection’s upcoming line-up
• Black British LGBTQ+ community deserves better on-screen portrayals, says Nana Duncan
• Katori Hall wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• I’ve loved seeing Black people rollerskating everywhere
• Zakiya Dalila Harris on her debut novel, ‘The Other Black Girl’
• Maro Itoje presented an exhibition on Black histories missing from the UK curriculum
• Rooting For Everyone Black
• Black Art: In the Absence of Light on HBO
• Solange turns Saint Heron into a multidisciplinary creative agency
• 10 best Black superhero movies, according to Rotten Tomatoes, via Screen Rant
• Aimé Césaire and his Discourse on Colonialism
• Stephanie Williams on Granny Goodness’s Blaxploitation villain traits
• This Hey Arnold! Gerald t-shirt is so cool
• Room Rodeo: a Chicago student’s film about Black cowboys
• Icon vs. Superman, as told by Evan Narcisse
• Ekow Nimako’s Afrofuturistic LEGO® universes
• Julie Adenuga on Catfish UK and the new rules of romance
• El Tiempo – No black, no history, no news
• Sexy MFing pizza
• Dom Griffin on Them: Covenant
• Charles Pulliam-Moore on DC Comics’ Black Supermen
• African Americans in Soviet Russia
• Afriqua’s five-part series on the Principles of Black Music
• ‘Grime Stories’ is a new exhibition showcasing the spaces, places, and faces behind the genre
• A research article on the influence of anime on grime music
• Harmony Holiday declares 2022 the year of Duke Ellington
• Bandcamp to hold second annual Juneteenth fundraiser
• How Black political movements influenced Asian American jazz
• Black Artist Database is a list of Black artists on Bandcamp
• Joseph Bologne, the Black polymath composer
• Tracy Chapman Performed Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution for ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’
• Sade’s E! Extreme Close Up Interview (1992)
• Dan Appelquist and Lola Odelola on privacy and the Web
• Is ‘decolonisation’ anything more than a buzzword in science?
• Igbo API is the world’s first African language API
• Black in Astro celebrates the Black space experience
• Black scientists in quantum physics
• The Raspberry Pi as a tool for biological sciences
• Supporting Black students as they embark on their STEM journeys
• Brian Williams: combating racism in public health with bioengineering
• Sylvester James Gates Jr. looks back at his career during the 2021 MIT Compton Lecture
• New York Times on Loretta Staples, a pioneering UI designer
• AI: the greatest Pokémon master
• Danielle Speller on burnout, identity, and how to maintain balance
• How Obiageli Nwodoh learnt to use physics in her social justice work
• Shout out to Caleb Anderson, the 13-year-old Georgia Tech student studying aerospace engineering
• Samuel and his electric, solar-powered wooden motorbike
• MIT on Jordan Harrod, a PhD researcher using AI to study the brain
• Leeds Trinity University graduates receive top Psychology award
• Dr Raychelle Burks on being a Black woman in STEM
• How a series of Twitter hashtags have brought Black scientists together
• The experiences of Black women in aerospace engineering
• Dr Kizzmekia S. Corbett on COVID-19 vaccine development and the myths surrounding it
• Black in Marine Science: a nonprofit for current and future Black marine scientists
• There aren’t enough Black scientists and researchers in climate science
• The critical engineering work of Dennisa Thomas
• Wired on Timnit Gebru and her tumultuous time at Google
• Congrats to Vanessa E. Wyche: the first Black female director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discussing ‘The Disordered Cosmos’ on NPR’s Short Wave
• 5 things to know about IBM’s tech investment in HBCUs
• Dr. Dóminique Kemp: the first Black mathematics PhD graduate at Indiana University
• Find Your Bind is an app for readers to find books written by authors of colour
• NASA’s history of astronauts of colour including Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. and Dr. Mae Jemison
• Urban Coders Guild are empowering their students to digitally rebuild Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
• Tshepo Dipheko and his chemistry in the kitchen
• Black women made $0.90 for every $1 a white man in the same tech role made last year
• Science Shouldn’t Come at the Expense of Black Lives
• Imperial College London to launch a mentoring scheme for Black students
• Tipping the balance for Black engineering
• A Q&A with Christine Darden, the 40-year NASA engineer
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on women of colour in STEM
• Charlton D. McIlwain on Black digital activists
• 7 Blerds from history
• Granville T. Woods was a prolific Black engineer
• The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain by Francesca Sobande
• Dr. Anne-Marie Imafidon on STEM and her ‘Stemettes’
• 17 Black STEM books for kids
• Emmanuella Mayaki: the 10-year-old coding genius
• A Black Internet Timeline
• Senamile Masango and her career of breaking down barriers for girls in STEM
• Ronald Mallett: a true Afrofuturist
• Georgina Baker—a Black female engineer—makes history at the University of Leeds
• Skilltype: A Black-owned talent marketplace for information professionals
• Mary W. Jackson – NASA’s first Black female engineer
• The data visualisations of W.E.B. Du Bois
• Study Python & Chill with Tae’lur Alexis on Twitch
• Stephon Alexander: the greatest jazz physicist of our time
• UrAvgConsumer’s Top 10 Tech Life Hacks of 2019
• Fullstack Academy’s 15 Tech Orgs Supporting Black Coders
• UrAvgConsumer Complete His 19th Massive Tech Unboxing
• Hero Nation’s Gaming Warriors Need Your Help!
• Blacker Than Black Times Infinity
• Interview: Jer’Maine Jones, Jr.
• The DatCode Podcast
• Interview: David Majors

Second opinions

• The History of Black-Owned Record Labels