Projects tagged "Race & Ethnicity"

"Reject and Protect" actions against Keystone XL pipeline in U.S.
Practitioner:
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance
Date:
Apr 22 2014
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance, a coalition of indigenous tribes, ranchers, farmers, stages a protest named "Reject and Protect" against the Keystone XL oil pipeline project along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, as a part of series of demonstrations around the Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., capital of the United States, April 22, 2014, on the occasion of the World Earth Day.
Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rights
Practitioner:
domestic workers
Date:
May 5 2012
There are over 200,000 migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon today — a large number when you considered that Lebanon’s population is only a little over 4 million. Most migrant workers live with their Lebanese employers, cleaning their houses, washing their clothes, cooking their food and looking after their children. Yet these workers are not included under Lebanon’s labor laws — they are not entitled to
Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68
Practitioner:
École des Beaux-Arts
Date:
Jan 1 1968
During the major strikes and student uprisings in France that year, the École des Beaux-Arts turned itself into a workshop for revolutionary messages.
‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own Words
Practitioner:
Louis Armstrong
Date:
Feb 13 2023
In Louis Armstrong’s study in the Queens home he shared with his fourth wife, Lucille, bookshelves were filled with reel-to-reel recordings he made as a sort of audio diary. Those tapes and his letters — read by the rapper Nas — lay the foundation for the director Sacha Jenkins’s documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues.”
Tracking Transience
Practitioner:
Hasan Elahi
Date:
Jan 1 2002
An erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities in 2002 subjected Hasan Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions. After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived “Tracking Transience” and opened just about every aspect of his life to the public.
Starbucks Customers Are Insisting ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Heard
Practitioner:
Lex Cross
Date:
Jul 18 2016
In the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Black Lives Matter supporters are finding creative ways to make sure the movement is acknowledged everywhere. When ordering at Starbucks, people have changed their name to “Black Lives Matter” so that, when their order is up, the baristas have to yell out their new moniker.
Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test
Practitioner:
Elizabeth Warren, Prominent Tribal Leaders, Donald Trump.
Date:
Jan 4 2019
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was positioned to make a strong bid for president in 2020, but she infuriated tribal leaders by releasing the results of a DNA test to prove her Native ancestry and now her future is unclear.
Poetry to challenge GBV from an intersectional lens – the Sari Red
Practitioner:
Pratibha Parmar
Date:
Mar 1 1988
Sari Red (1988), by Pratibha Parmar, is a visual poem. Made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young Indian woman killed in 1985 in a racist attack in England, Sari Red eloquently examines the effect of the ever-present threat of violence upon the lives of Asian women in both private and public spheres.
Mayday Space
Practitioner:
Mayday Space
Date:
Jan 1 2016
Mayday is a neighborhood resource and a citywide destination for engaging programming, a home for radical thought and debate, and a welcoming gathering place for people to work, learn, drink, dance and build together.
Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: "Made for Whites by Whites"
Practitioner:
Nick Cave
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Marcel Duchamp, father of the readymade, forced the world to consider mundane things as significant objects, worthy of greater-than-average contemplation — yet his bicycle wheel, shovel, and urinal didn’t come freighted with all that much history.
Students Protest John Galliano
Practitioner:
Parsons Jewish Student Union
Date:
Apr 25 2013
In 2011, a video displaying fashion designer and former lead designer at Dior, John Galliano, shouting anti-Semitic remarks, went viral on the internet, leading to his subsequent dismissal from Dior and the subsequent defamation of his career. Nonetheless, Parsons at the New School extended Galliano an offer to teach a specialized design seminar, which was scheduled to begin this year.

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