Troubles au Kenya : les raisons économiques profondes qui ont fait descendre la génération Z dans la rue: La génération des Kenyans nés entre 1997 et 2012 (les “Gen-Z”) a été la plus touchée par la lenteur de la croissance économique du pays. Lorsqu’un pays connaît une faible croissance économique, il est généralement confronté à …
How Tumblr raised a generation of feminists: Like so many millennials, my teenage years on the multimedia microblogging platform, Tumblr, introduced me to feminist politics, which inspired my burgeoning interest in gender and feminism at university. My experiences as a Tumblr teen at the height of its popularity inspired my book, Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, …
HMV is back on Oxford Street bringing the old-school music experience to a new generation: “What musicians want,” said composer Sir Edward Elgar as he inaugurated the first HMV shop in London in 1921, “is more listeners, and the dissemination of good music by the gramophone will give us a new public which will … …
Generation X hardest hit as drug deaths rise yet again in England and Wales: one photo/Shutterstock It’s another tragic record. A new report has confirmed yet another rise in drug related deaths in England and Wales. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that 4,907 “drug poisoning” deaths were recorded in 2022 (84.4 deaths per …
Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050 – even without more ambitious climate policies: Solar power is likely to become the dominant electricity source worldwide by 2050. Mny-Jhee/Shutterstock In pursuit of the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero emissions, nations worldwide must expand their use of clean energy sources. In the case of solar …
Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation – collaborative approach reveals the people behind the paintings: Scotland’s first Black professor, Sir Godfrey Palmer, described the Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation exhibition as “an acknowledgement that we are the same people from the past … who wouldn’t have [had] our portrait put up in this way”, …
International ransomware gangs are evolving their techniques. The next generation of hackers will target weaknesses in cryptocurrencies: Shutterstock/JLStock In May 2023, the Dallas City Government was hugely disrupted by a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks are so-called because the hackers behind them encrypt vital data and demand a ransom in order to get the information decrypted. …
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography – Tate Modern show celebrates new generation of artists, but misses a trick: The last large survey exhibition of African photography by a major western gallery was In/Sight at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1996. Twenty-seven years later, Tate Modern is introducing a British audience to …
How childcare subsidies can reduce the gap between mothers’ and fathers’ career paths – for this generation and the next: Making quality childcare more accessible will help generations of mothers. Dusan Petkovic/Shutterstock More than 80% of women in England and Wales will become mothers at some point during their working lives, according to OECD figures. …
How the Windrush generation transformed music in Britain: There was a black musical presence in Britain many centuries before the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush at London’s Tilbury dock. In the Tudor period, it was fashionable for wealthy households to employ and enjoy black musicians, particularly within the royal courts. The most well known …
The Black-owned publishing houses that shaped the Windrush generation: The story of Britain’s Black publishers is one of endurance and monumental creativity in the face of repeated attempts at persecution and denigration. Luminaries such as the authors and intellectuals C.L.R. James and George Padmore had been educated in some of the Caribbean’s elite colonial schools. …
How the fashion of the Windrush generation shaped British style: The outfits that new Caribbean arrivals to Britain wore as they disembarked the HMT Empire Windrush – and all the other boats that followed – served as a reassurance of their sense of self. They had left their previous home behind and, at this stage …
How the Windrush generation changed stories of Britain forever – ten recommended reads: The 800 West Indians who walked down the gangway at Tilbury to make new lives in England in June 1948 had been encouraged to think of the country as their motherland. The literary contribution of the Windrush generation is just one example …
Nikki Haley: the ‘new generation’ candidate trying to win the Republican nomination: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has pledged to support Ukraine if she wins. The Old Major/Shutterstock “The Washington establishment has failed us … It’s time for a new generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border and strengthen our country.” These …
Ivor Cummings: the forgotten gay mentor of the Windrush generation: The most familiar version of the story of the Windrush generation excludes LGBTQ+ people. It describes how (presumed) heterosexual men from the Caribbean, seeking economic opportunity, arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush and later spawned – literally and figuratively – the generation of black Britons …
The Windrush generation: how a resilient Caribbean community made a lasting contribution to British society: As a young boy in 1962, I remember arriving in England from Jamaica on a BOAC jet plane. It seemed to me like I was going to the moon – the air hostess who accompanied me was the first white …
Voices of Preston’s Windrush generation – when I first arrived, I said: ‘Really? I thought there were no slums in this place!’: From the earliest arrivals of what would become Preston’s “Windrush generation”, the status of the Caribbean diaspora was hotly contested in this post-industrial Lancashire town, as elsewhere. Discrimination and prejudice dogged the daily …
We’re using VR to help find the next generation of basketball stars: blank Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry is one of the world’s leading basketball players and unquestionably the greatest shooter of all time. The video below may look like it’s on a loop, but it’s actually Curry sinking 105 three point shots …