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‘Big Brother is Watching You’: The Use of Live Facial Recognition by Law Enforcement Agencies and International Human Rights Law
The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall […]. The...
Udit Mahalingam
22 min read
Lady in Blue, Trafalgar Square, London’s Fourth Plinth Commission for 2026: In Conversation with Tschabalala Self
Tschabalala Self (b. 1990 Harlem, USA) lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York. Tschabalala is an artist and builds a singular style...
Gabriella Kardos
5 min read
The Power of Social Movements: In Conversation with Deva Woodly
Deva Woodly is a professor at Brown University. Her research covers media and communication, political understanding of economics, race,...
Eleanor Taylor
22 min read
The Hidden Life of Books, Chapter IV: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and The Americans
The book is a simple yet complex idea that has profound influence on culture, society, and religion that transcends time and...
Laura Migliorino
4 min read
Leave the Empire Windrush at the Bottom of the Ocean: In Conversation with Gus John
Gus John is an award-winning writer, education campaigner, and lecturer. His work spans the fields of education policy, management, and...
Donari Yahzid
13 min read
Afrodescendants Claim Rights to Benin Bronzes—They Belong to All of Us
We are the Restitution Study Group (RSG), a New York-based non-profit founded in 2000 to campaign for innovative approaches to healing...
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann et al
8 min read
Don’t Debase My Desires: Examining the Links Between Adaptive Preference Formation and the Cultivation of Public Emotion
In our society and social theory, there is a fine line between a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’ decision. While society uses moral justifications...
Donari Yahzid
18 min read
A Racial Justice Approach to Mitigation within Sentencing in the UK
A case for the enhanced pre-sentence report in England and Wales, exploring how the Canadian approach to racially disproportionate...
Ife Thompson
15 min read
Making BBC Four’s African Renaissance: In Conversation with Russell Barnes and Clare Burns
Russell Barnes is a Director and Producer for the documentary production company ClearStory. Clare Burns has worked in television...
Helen Grant
10 min read
In the Wake of Colston: Wake Work after Woke Work
What does it mean to defend the dead? To tend to the Black dead and dying: to tend to the Black person, to Black people, always living in...
Jacob Badcock and Jovan Owusu-Nepaul
19 min read
Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy
The origins and definition of the word ‘Americanitis’ are opaque at best. It is generally believed to have appeared in medical journals...
Nicolas Canal Tinius
15 min read
Ewell in the East (or Not): A Chinese Perspective on Racism in Music Studies
1. Introduction Music theory is white. —Philip Ewell Thus begins Philip Ewell’s article ‘Music Theory and the White Racial Frame’.[1] His...
David Chu
13 min read
Performative Activism and the Murder of George Floyd
This piece was written in the direct aftermath of George Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020. Since then, having also been selected as an...
Chater Paul Jordan
12 min read
We the People? The Conservative National Identity and its Role in American Political Polarisation
Identity drives human agency. Who we consider ourselves and the groups we are part of determines the choices we make. This principle is...
Christopher George
13 min read
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