"The most profound changes in Black life in the past several decades have been along the lines of class and status, creating political and social chasms between élites and ordinary Black people."

"In recent works of pop culture, the aging mother fights to reclaim her body—and her freedom."

>"The young stars of this new HBO Max comedy, cocreated by Mindy Kaling, discuss the mortification and messiness of undergraduate intimacy."

>"For nearly a decade, the photographer has been chronicling the country’s historic struggles, with an intimacy that can be _...Read More_

>"LISBON (Reuters) -As concerns grow over racial bias in artificial intelligence, Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Opal Tometi urged the tech sector to act fast _...Read More_

>"Many queer people are reimagining their own boundaries and thinking of this reentry period as a time for _...Read More_

>"The attack on Critical Race Theory is the latest right-wing onslaught against "cultural Marxism" and its supposed hidden intention to destroy _...Read More_

"rather than following Charles Baudelaire’s exhortation to 'wed the crowd,' he—and it usually is a 'he'—prefers to assail it, antagonize it, and molest it." This line will likely make me laugh until the end of time. Holy shit man, what a _...Read More_

Hackers believed to be directed by the Russian intelligence service, the SVR, used that routine software update to slip _...Read More_

"America was beginning to realize the awful enormity of the coronavirus pandemic. I’ve repressed much of the stressful minutiae of those days, but, when I look back, one memory comes to mind, and, surprisingly, it is not a bad one. On March _...Read More_

"Can you be both an agent of change and art-world royalty? This artist’s reign on the Whitney Museum’s fifth floor shows it’s possible."

>"Racially motivated speech riddled with hatred is just another hateful speech, and any prefix associated with it is absolutely redundant & _...Read More_

The first presentation of the day was given by design critic Alice Rawsthorn, who discussed Design Emergency, a research collaboration with curator Paola Antonelli