Category: Media Archive

  • In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art.

  • When Labels Don’t Matter: George Herriman and Krazy Kat The Beat 2016-12-14 Heidi MacDonald, Editor-In-Chief We’ve been writing a bit about Michael Tisserand’s comprehensive new biography of George Herriman, Krazy: A Life in Black and White, but last night I got to hear him talk about it at one of the stops on his mini…

  • The people running the media are the problem Nieman Lab 2016-12-13 Matt Waite, Founder, Drone Journalism Lab; Professor of Journalism University of Nebraska This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore trust…

  • On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present…

  • A Second Look: “A Year of Dreams” by Sarah A. Chavez The Fourth River 2014-11-12 Kylie Walnoha, Assistant Poetry Editor “From Waking to Dreaming” –by Kylie Walnoha, The Fourth River Staff The rarity of being on the end of publishing that involves making decisions for the journal has been a unique as well as a…

  • Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color/race in Brazil BioSocieties March 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1 pages 48–69 DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2014.21 Ricardo Ventura Santos Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/ FIOCRUZ & Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gláucia Oliveira da Silva Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil Sahra Gibbon, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University…

  • My President Was Black The Atlantic January/February 2017 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Ian Allen A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next “They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make…

  • Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women Quartz Africa 2016-12-09 Lily Kuo Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between…

  • ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’: Fiction by an Author Who Died Young Book Review The New York Times 2016-12-09 Morgan Jerkins WHATEVER HAPPENED TO INTERRACIAL LOVE? Stories By Kathleen Collins 175 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. Paper, $15.99. Kathleen Collins Credit Douglas Collins Kathleen Collins’s short story collection, “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?” opens with a monologue.…

  • Word of Honour: Reclaiming Mandela’s Promise Chace Studios South Africa 2016 Color Running Time: 01:13:00 Kiersten Dunbar Chace, Producer, Director, Editor David Grant, Consultant/Writer In 1997, just prior to his departure from politics, President Nelson Mandela delivered an informal speech to a predominately mixed-race Coloured community in the Western Cape. He reassured them they had nothing…