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California Gold
Fun facts: Willy Chavarria (2024 Menswear Designer of the Year) and Rick Owens (Council of Fashion Designers of America Lifetime Achievement Award Winner) are two of the most influential fashion designers in the world. Both are from California’s Central Valley (Chavarria, Fresno/ Owens, Porterville) and each has a Mexican parent. #CaliforniaGold
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Who gets the privilege of being heard?
“In 2017 researchers Adam Galinsky and Joe C. Magee of Columbia University described how power and status act as self-reinforcing loops: How much status a person has directly affects whether their ideas are heard. People with high status (the Hollywood producer, the project lead, someone who looks like the existing leader) are met with greater…
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I started reading “Democracy’s Data” about the 1940 U.S. Census today. Only a few pages in, author Dan Bouk asks a question that continues to trouble the idea of the American experience. Data can bring truth to light or make it disappear. I’m excited to dig into what was learned and what may have been…
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Viola Davis and the Art of Living
Viola Davis doesn’t subscribe to the small worldview of a limited imagination. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are,” she tells Glory Edim on The Well-Read Black Girl podcast. Ms. Davis is one of the world’s greatest actresses. She is also an expansive thinker who claims the beautiful complexity of life. On…
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“Fuck it. Let’s just do it ourselves.” – Linda Goode Bryant on the creation of Just Above Midtown Gallery (JAM)
When the gallerist Linda Goode Bryant worked as director of education at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the early 1970s, artists gathered in her work space for conversation. Their discussions often came to the same place. The art establishment denied artists of color- Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine/x- exhibition opportunities. Goode Bryant’s response to this…
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Diamond Shines On
Watching Diamond The Original feels like you’ve stumbled into the act of joyful creation. She is a rare jewel of a performer, living up to her stage name. Diamond sings and dances to music of her own beguiling creation on Tik Tok and YouTube. Her performances are a living spin on the quote, “You’ve got…
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