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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
TopicAfrican american

Topic: african american

Natural Black hair is back in fashion in America in the coronavirus era

As salons and barbershops, where Black Americans got their hair straightened or treated, have been shut for months, people have been pushed go natural and buy products for it.

Chadwick Boseman’s death a sign colorectal cancer has increased in people below 50

The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2020, about 147,950 people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

Air pollution is a public health problem also related to racial injustice

In sum, African-Americans are hit especially hard by air pollution, even though they cause relatively little of it.

As the world debates racist Gandhi, African-Americans had yearned for a Black Gandhi

No one who studies Gandhi should defend his views on race and caste, but that doesn't make him less of an important figure.

Purge rap music of bad language & drugs, Russian President Putin tells his govt

Now, Canada wants to end arms deal with Saudi Arabia, and 2016 Russian campaign targeted African-Americans during the US presidential election.

To really make a difference on race National Geographic needs to get a black woman editor

Indian and American editors should do more than just acknowledge the race and caste problem. It is a little late for National Geographic to do that.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.