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From the history-making best picture nomination of “Black Panther” to Black-owned and operated businesses in Berkeley and beyond, we join in this month’s celebration of the Black community and hope to uplift the voices too often silenced.
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In this project, Menat El Attma endeavors to feature this spellbinding relationship between the femina (Latin, woman) and nature by the faculty of a camera lens.
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“I am more than ever convinced that education is the greatest factor in the upward climb of any person or people. My theme song has been: learn, study, read — continuously.” These words were written in the mid-1960s by Ida Louise Jackson, a UC Berkeley alumna and the namesake of
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When you glimpse the cover art for Dawn Richard’s, or DΔWN’s, new album New Breed, it’s impossible not to focus on the white, flowing headdress that hugs her as she lies back in the sun. The headdress, along with the entire album, which released Jan. 25, is the artist’s way
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While I do my best to intentionally recognize the strides being made by institutions to ensure that diversity and inclusion become practices embedded in their ways of functioning, I still do not understand how the term “women and minorities” continues to be a widely used phrase when we think about
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Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black bookstore, first opened its doors in San Francisco in 1960. Tucked away in the back of a print shop, the store originally was called Success Book Store and was often visited by icons such as Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Oprah Winfrey.
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It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly draws you into Pinky & Red’s. It could be the nostalgic ambience of a 50’s diner, the complimentary notes scribbled on the pink-and-white-striped walls or perhaps the warm, comforting smell of chicken sizzling in the fryer. Pinky & Red’s is one of five restaurants
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The 2019 Academy Award nominations were released Jan. 22, and as with recent years, the conversation surrounding this year’s awards race involved much more than “snubs” and “surprises.” In many ways, this year’s batch of nominees was one of the most diverse we’ve seen, as films centered on people of
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The Bay Area boasts a thriving arts and culture community, and Black History Month is a prime time to take advantage of all relevant events and offerings. Here, we’ve compiled seven (mostly free!) events to attend — both in celebration of the accomplishments of the Black community and in acknowledgment
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Jimsoned, my words are; clovered, clustered. Excuse my hair, my platform eyes. I’m crowded by theorems and connected investigations; they clutter the chairs, they jimmy all the locks. They return my kisses with such sobriety that blue and slow are crowns, synonyms. I might have waited elsewhere. But looking is its own gym, its
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