Tag: Race
Never mind Cleopatra – what about the forgotten queens of ancient Nubia?
Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan
Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African...
‘Across the Spider-Verse’ and the Latino legacy of Spider-Man
Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University
As a Latino literature and media scholar, a lifelong gamer and a Guatemalan-American...
Harry Belafonte leveraged stardom for social change, his powerful voice always...
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
In May 1963, as civil rights demonstrations rocked the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Harry...
How white privilege plays into the first lady’s idea to invite...
Joseph N. Cooper, UMass Boston
After Louisiana State University beat the University of Iowa for the women’s college basketball...
The cautionary tale of ‘Dilbert’
Chris Lamb, Indiana University
Dilbert, the put-upon chronicler of office life, has been given the pink slip.
Student ‘slave auctions’ illustrate the existence of a hidden culture of...
Barbara Harris Combs, Kennesaw State University
In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the...
‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ continues the series’ quest to recover and...
Julian C. Chambliss, Michigan State University
As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the...
Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success
Josh Woods, West Virginia University
Most newer sports are hybrids of older ones, and pickleball is no exception. The...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
