Tag Archives: Politics

MLK’s Granddaughter At March For Our Lives: ‘I Have A Dream That Enough Is Enough’ — HelloBeautiful

Posted on March 24, 2018 by agogo22

Source: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Eleven-year-old Naomi Wadler wasn’t the only Black girl that stole the show at the March For Our Lives rally on March 24. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 9-year-old granddaughter, Yolanda Renee King, wowed the … Continue reading →

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Banksy Emerges in New York and Calls Attention to Imprisoned Turkish Artist Zehra Doğan – Colossal

Posted on March 20, 2018 by agogo22

Banksy (previously) has emerged this week on the streets of New York, creating at least two new artworks, his first pieces in the city  since his ‘residency’ five years ago. In one large work spanning the length of the famed mural space at the … Continue reading →

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A drop of bleach in the gene pool – The Mex Files

Posted on February 19, 2018 by agogo22

Although this 1895 painting is by a Brazilian artist, it illustrates quite effectively the Latin American elites ideas about race and  national identity. At the time, both in the Anglo north, and Latin south, Social Darwinism was accepted science and the … Continue reading →

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O vexame da Globo no desfile da Tuiuti

Posted on February 18, 2018 by agogo22

Os melhores (dependendo do ponto de vista, piores) momentos do vexame da Globo no desfile da Paraíso do Tuiuti, que denunciou o golpe, mas os apresentadores esconderam.

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Gallery Wanted to Provoke Debate by Removing Naked Nymphs Painting. It Succeeded.

Posted on February 6, 2018 by agogo22
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Hidden History: The US “War On Corruption” In Brasil

Posted on February 6, 2018 by agogo22

“US involvement in Lava Jato is not relevant” argued a Brazilian commentator recently, recognising its self-evidence. This is a familiar sight; the great taboo of empire is breaking the fourth wall, winking to camera, and acknowledging its existence. Source: Hidden … Continue reading →

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The scrimshaw made by an African sailor fighting the slave trade in 1827

Posted on February 3, 2018 by agogo22

Matthew Sheldon, Head of the Curatorial Department at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, talks about a scrimshaw belonging to an African sailor who helped the Royal Navy of the 1820s fight the transatlantic slave trade A … Continue reading →

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Rio’s Pentecostal mayor takes on the capital of Carnival

Posted on January 24, 2018 by agogo22

The mayor of this sultry metropolis slashed funding for Carnival, the city’s gay pride parade and a procession honoring an Afro-Brazilian goddess. Mayor Marcelo Crivella, a Pentecostal Christian, calls the moves fiscal prudence. But Rio’s liberals see a thinly veiled crusade to impose … Continue reading →

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Brazil Rio Carnival Protest

Posted on January 24, 2018 by agogo22

In this post from 2001online on Flickr they say: Samba school members sing as they march toward the Sambadrome during a protest against mayor Marcelo Crivella in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, June 17, 2017. The samba schools are protesting the decision … Continue reading →

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Well-being will suffer if we don’t trump the anti-science trend | New Scientist

Posted on December 28, 2017 by agogo22

The White House’s clampdown on the term “evidence-based” is but one example of the anti-science movement. Unstopped, it will prevent advances in health Source: Well-being will suffer if we don’t trump the anti-science trend | New Scientist

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