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The non-official "Latina Belt." I loved Bad Bunny's halftime show at the Super Bowl as a celebration of Puerto Rican culture. As a theater performance, it stretched the boundaries of what “America” is: not just the United States, but all of the countries, named South to North by Bad Bunny himself, including displaying the flags … Continue reading Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl and why the criticism feels exhausting
Photo by Ray Harrington on Unsplash ChatGPT creating overwhelm We are living in a moment where tools designed to help us think are increasingly shaping how we cope with overload. Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerates the loss of our scarcest natural resource: water, as Forbes published in 2024. The AI boom has caused the same CO₂ … Continue reading Staying sane in an age of permanent overload
Screenshot of Mohammad Kaif. Mohammad Kaif, a young Muslim boy from India, went viral, shutting down a reporter’s attempt to ignite hate during the ongoing India - Pakistan tensions. The journalist provoked him into speaking against Pakistan, even questioning his patriotism when he called for peace. But the boy didn’t fall for it. Calmly and confidently, … Continue reading Young people have brains
(c) NurPhoto for GettyImages. Colonial history is complex Black Lives Matter has brought the conversation about the colonial history of Western countries to the forefront. In the United States and Europe, “protesters have dethroned, decapitated, defaced or otherwise targeted public representations of some of the most venerable members (deceased) of the Great White Canon of … Continue reading How can Complicating the Narrative help to report on colonialism?
Screenshot from the TalkTV interview with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. Sometimes it’s good to understand something by knowing what it is not. The interview TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer did with Palestinian Dr. Mustafa Barghouti is an example of what Complicating the Narrative… is not. The method was introduced by journalist Amanda Ripley in the eponymously titled article … Continue reading Julia Hartley-Brewer’s Interview with Dr. Barghouti Highlights Journalism’s Need for Complicating the Narrative
Still from the documentary The Seed Queen of Palestine Palestinian agriculture Palestinian Vivien Sansour divides her time between working in the West Bank and with farmers in Central America and California. Her Seed Kitchen is connecting people over food. The documentary The Seed Queen of Palestine by Mariam Shahin follows Vivian in establishing the Bir … Continue reading Watch this Solutions Journalism documentary about Palestine’s seed library
Summer school Decolonizing Global Health - Journal Day 1 By Mayra Salazar Volkmann It can be lonely to focus on decoloniality, as I mentioned in the introduction round of the first day of the summer school Decolonizing Global Health. And at least three people who introduced themselves after me agreed with my opinion. It is … Continue reading Decolonization is about asking a lot of questions
There is so much going on at the moment, it’s almost hard to keep up with all the articles and posts that are being published about the Israel-Palestine conflict. One thing seems clear though: all the uproar brings cracks in the old beliefs about the justification of the state of Israel.And because it’s so easy … Continue reading The latest violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict creates renewed momentum
The NOS, the largest news organization of the Netherlands became news itself this week when internal documents and screenshots about its diversity policy were leaked. It showed that the newsroom actively encourages its employees to profile gender and ethnicity in news reports. Furthermore, there is a monthly ‘Divibokaal’, a ‘Diversity Cup’ for the most ‘diverse’ production … Continue reading Dutch journalism and its biggest newsroom has a white fragility problem
A 5:25 minutes debate on a Sunday morning two weeks ago, about the question whether the word ‘Empire’ should be removed from British Honours, teaches us everything that goes wrong in journalism nowadays if it's about discussing the colonial past. Professor of Black Studies Dr Kehinde Andrews was invited to join a panel in the … Continue reading How media can heal themselves from the ‘whiteness psychosis’
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