Culture Finds

Day 13: Native American women photographers as storytellers

In 'Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers', Joan M. Jensen, Professor Emerita at New Mexico State University, presents a brief introduction to the visual anthropology of indigenous female "message carriers".

Mar, 13

Day 12: Art against femicide (Part II)

Co-Curators Dolores Mercado and Linda Xochitl Tortolero, discuss the exhibition Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez. Unsolved murders of the women in this border town are brought to light through the works of artists featured in the exhibit.

Mar, 12

Day 11: Art against femicide (Part I)

Honeyspace’s fourth show was called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years.

Mar, 11

Day 10: No kudos for 'Precious'?

The Defenders' Stacey Patton is thankful the Academy of Motion Pictures did not award "a slew of Oscars" to Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire. "Call me a hater. I don’t care," she says.

Mar, 10

Henry Louis Gates celebrates Candomblé in Bahía

American scholar Henry Louis Gates makes his first trip to Bahía, on Brasil's northeastern Atlantic coast, for the start of Carnaval and celebrations of Candomblé, a Brasilian religious tradition that has retained many rites from the Ifa-based religions of Nigeria's Yoruba and Fon peoples.

Feb, 17

An Appreciation of Lucille Clifton

The Root's Hollis Robbins shows love for poet Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1979-1985), who died on Saturday, February 13, 2010, in Baltimore.

Feb, 16

Culture Finds: The wonderful world of art

The art world has been keeping busy. From film to photography to innovative projects about sustainability, the [art] block is hot.

Jun, 17

Culture Finds: Keeping up with the times

I have been so engrossed with the project I am currently working on, that I have not had time to follow current events. Shame on me.

Jun, 16

Popular media and the underrepresentation of girls of color

Women's Media Center president Carol Jenkins will be on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric tonight, Thursday, 4 June 2009, to discuss Disney's first African American princess, Tiana, and the underrepresentation of girls of color in popular media.

Jun, 04

Culture Finds: African cuisine, James Baldwin in San Francisco and art commemorating victims in China's Sichuan province

In this week's culture finds the existence of African cuisine is questioned, James Baldwin evaluates San Francisco's African American community and an artist remembers earthquake victims fromsouthwest China.

May, 11

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