Culture, Arts & Identity
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The Ghanaian Pallbearers Lean Into Their Role as Pandemic Grim Reapers
The Ghanaian pallbearers have become the most explicit cultural icons of this pandemic. They are cultural icons of death and…
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Lions spotted napping on road during coronavirus lockdown
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A pride of lions has…
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I’m trying to save the world: Rihanna warns fans to stop asking about new music
By: PTI | Los Angeles | Updated: April 12, 2020 2:44:00 pm Rihanna has asked her fans to back off…
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Powerful Woman Portraits
“Powerful” is one of the words that come to mind when looking at Tim Okamura’s work. Born in Canada and…
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How a Rastafarian village gave Hollywood Peter Pan
Image copyright Gemma Handy Image caption Wendy director Benh Zeitlin went a long way to find his Peter Pan -…
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Coronavirus: Nigerian celebrities wear blinged-up masks
Image caption Actor and television presenter Ada Afoluwake Ogunkeye AKA Folu Storms was among those attending Nigerian celebrities turned up…
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The painter blending Gospel spirituality and Basquiat-esque portraiture
It’s often in trying times that people turn to spirituality — times like these, for example. But while religion may…
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Blasian dating in South Africa: ‘Will my Asian family accept my black boyfriend?’
Since the end of apartheid - and even for some years before that - young South Africans have been free…
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African stars join fight against coronavirus with donations, songs
KINSHASA: Footballers and musicians have been on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus in Africa, reaching not just for…
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6 Women of Color Who Changed the Literary Landscape
At Book Riot, we celebrate the women who are changing and influencing the literary world every day of the year.…
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Coronavirus is a nightmare. These stories tell us how to survive — and rise above it.
Art might seem like a luxury in a moment when retailers are trying to crack down on speculation in hand…
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This Cape Town artist makes tapestries that feel like fever dreams
A woman with a Maltese dog sits on a stool by a bar, next to a large man drinking a…
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This Kenyan artist makes otherworldly afrofuturist collages
David Kipkoech vividly remembers his first interaction with art. It was the late 90s and his uncle owned a record…
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‘The Color of Friendship’ Is Still Disney Channel’s Most Progressive Movie About Race
The 2000 movie The Color of Friendship opens with a montage of different Washington, D.C. monuments as L.T.D.’s 1977 funk…
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The Beauty and Burden of Being a Nigerian Bride
By Yemisi Aribisala There are millions of pictures of Nigerian brides on Instagram, many of them taken by talented artists…
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