Tag: celebrity
R. Kelly was aided by a network of complicity – common...
Peggy Cunningham, Dalhousie University and Minette Drumwright, University of Texas at Austin
R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty...
What is cultural appropriation, and how does it differ from cultural...
Joshua E. Kane, Arizona State University
Fashion companies are increasingly being taken to task for selling expensive versions of...
What The Weeknd’s changing face says about our sick celebrity culture
Alvaro Jarrin, College of the Holy Cross
You might have seen The Weeknd’s altered face on the internet lately...
For black celebrities like Oprah, it’s impossible to be apolitical
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, University of South Carolina
Oprah Winfrey’s rousing Golden Globe speech has many speculating whether the media mogul will become a presidential candidate...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of...
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
When image trumps ideology: How JFK created the template for the...
Steven Watts, University of Missouri-Columbia
Even at John F. Kennedy’s centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still...
Celebrity activists get it wrong on Amnesty International’s sex work policy
Rebecca Hiscock, University of Melbourne
Amnesty International’s recent publication of a draft policy recommending the decriminalisation of sex work has been received positively by sex...
Lawyers look at the Elgin Marbles, but stars keep them firmly...
By Marett Leiboff, University of Wollongong
Legal star power is being deployed in the form of the very well-known London barristers, Geoffrey Robertson QC and...