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Month: October 2020

afrodrops: a Black-owned shop for Afro hair care [*]

LifestyleOctober 31, 2020October 31
Black Culture
afrodrops logo

afrodrops founder Luke Carthy set up the brand after a poignant message from his 5-year-old son.

A UK Black History Month Post (2020) [*]

CultureOctober 30, 2020October 30
Black Culture / Black History Month / UK
Black people in a crowd

2020 has been a lot for Black people in Britain. Here's a post celebrating Black History Month for October this year.

La California: Italy's home of unofficial US polling stations [*]

TravelOctober 29, 2020March 7
Atlas Obscura / Italy / USA

La California (not LA, California) is home to over 1,000 people and unauthorised polling stations for US elections every four years.

Conflict in Literature (with Daffy Duck) [*]

The InternetOctober 23, 2020October 24
Cartoon / Memes

Grant Snider's 'Conflicts in Literature' comic strip turned into a meme back in the 2010s and one involved Daffy Duck.

Jenn Nkiru on her work and Afro-surrealism [*]

FilmOctober 22, 2020February 24
Black Culture / Black History Month / Nigeria / UK / Video
Jenn Nkiru

British-Nigerian artist and filmmaker Jenn Nkiru talked about her 2019 film Black To Techno, her style of work, and the histories of Black music.

Love from a Black perspective [*]

SocietyOctober 15, 2020October 15
Black Culture / James Baldwin / Toni Morrison

What is love? Here are some quotes from some of the most famous Black writers and thinkers of our time.

Sir David Adjaye’s best projects [*]

ArchitectureOctober 7, 2020October 7
Africa / Black Culture / UK
Sir David Adjaye

The Spaces looked at some of Adjaye's landmark projects including Elektra House & the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Uganda Skateboard Union [*]

SportOctober 5, 2020February 24
Africa / Black Culture / Skateboarding / Video

Check out this awesome music video featuring The Uganda Skateboard Union.

The photography of Kennedi Carter [*]

PhotographyOctober 4, 2020November 1
Black Culture / LGBTQ / USA

Explore the expressions of Blackness and Black love with Kennedi Carter's recent works.

What if Batman was Black? [*]

ComicsOctober 3, 2020February 24
Batman / Black Culture / DC Comics / Video
Wayne Williams as Batman

It's been 19 years since the release of Stan Lee's "Just Imagine..." Batman comic, the first time the former Marvel editor-in-chief worked with DC.

Albert Murray on race, jazz, and modernism [*]

CultureOctober 3, 2020November 23
Black Culture / Modernism / Racism
albert murray

The late jazz critic's life and career spanned a century and his book, The Omni-Americans, celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The super realistic art of Arinze Stanley [*]

ArtOctober 2, 2020October 2
Black Culture / Nigeria
PAINFUL CONVERSATIONS

Enjoy the hyperrealism of Nigerian artist and photographer Arinze Stanley.

Toni Morrison on "Jazz" (1993) [*]

BooksOctober 1, 2020February 24
Black Culture / Toni Morrison / Video
Toni Morrison

Novelist Toni Morrison looked back on her youth, family and her newest book, "Jazz" in a 1993 interview with Charlie Rose.

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