How five vivid arts projects offer up hope for repair and resistance: Swartberg House in the Karoo, designed by Jennifer Beningfield, Open Studio. Richard DaviesReview 2016: This has been a year most of humanity would like to forget with war, disasters, racism, sexism and, especially in arts and culture, the deaths of revered icons. But it is also in the arts and culture where … [Read more...] about How five vivid arts projects offer up hope for repair and resistance | The Conversation
Resistance
Kinky, curly hair: a tool of resistance across the African diaspora | The Conversation
Kinky, curly hair: a tool of resistance across the African diaspora: For women studying and working in Eurocentric institutions, wearing natural hair can be a symbol of resistance ShutterstockAcross the African diaspora, stigmatising kinky and curly hair was a central way that European colonisers and slave-owners subjugated black people. In many places, like Brazil and the … [Read more...] about Kinky, curly hair: a tool of resistance across the African diaspora | The Conversation
Resilience & Resistance: Black History Month Conference
Resilience & Resistance: Black History Month Conference A South Africa Event on 2016-02-27 11:00:00 The Black History Month Conference has been curated by Black students across all three campuses at the University of Toronto. On February 27th, we aim to create a space where students and community members can engage in conversations impacting the Black community. … [Read more...] about Resilience & Resistance: Black History Month Conference
Africa has a long way to go to close the gap on antibiotic resistance | The Conversation
A pharmacist dispensing drugs at Nairobi's Mater Hospital. Resistance to antibiotics is high in Africa. Reuters/Thomas MukoyaAntibiotic resistance occupies centre stage on the global public health agenda as a “tragedy of the commons”. It affects developed and developing countries equally. Antibiotic resistance develops when bacteria are not affected by antibiotics that … [Read more...] about Africa has a long way to go to close the gap on antibiotic resistance | The Conversation
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance (1 of 7)
A MyJHB.co.za selected video for you: “Road To Resistance” is part 1 of a powerful new documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africas apartheid regime. As the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, South Africa heads in the opposite direction, … [Read more...] about Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance (1 of 7)
