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How to Add the Black Unity Collection Wallpaper to Your Apple Devices Celebrate Black History Month by decking out your Apple gadgets in red, green, and black. By Terrance Gaines 6 Feb 2021, 9:03 a.m. Major companies have responded to last summer’s protests over racial equality by contributing to organizations and causes that seek to improve race relations in the United States. Apple has donated time and resources to its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, which focuses on “edu...

To celebrate this year’s Black History Month, Apple has recently launched plenty of materials for its products and services which are meant to highlight the Black community, history, and culture. Among them is the Black Unity Collection which has since made its way to Malaysia. ADVERTISEMENT The highlight of the collection is the Apple Watch Series 6 Black Unity. Using the Apple Watch Series 6 with a black aluminium case as its foundation, this limited-edition release includes the Black Un...

Guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson is a maverick who’s not as well known as he should be. Part of the New York scene starting in the seventies and into the eighties, the axeman vacillated between mainstream soul/pop (including LPs for Island and RCA/Novus, the former produced by Nile Rodgers) and avant-garde jazz (work with Oliver Lake and Wadada Leo Smith, recording the landmark Clarity LP in 1977). That split personality may have sidelined him in the fame game, but it didn’t stop him ...

‘I’ve had to fight’: Kehinde Andrews on life as the first UK professor of Black studies ‘I’ve probably done permanent damage to my mental and physical health establishing this course’ ... Kehinde Andrews. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian ‘I’ve probably done permanent damage to my mental and physical health establishing this course’ ... Kehinde Andrews. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian From a childhood identity crisis to navigating academia,...

‘I’ve had to fight’: Kehinde Andrews on life as the first UK professor of Black studies Nesrine Malik © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian When Kehinde Andrews was at school, his friends would never have imagined him growing up to become the UK’s first Black studies professor – nor that he would help found the first Black studies programme in Europe, at Birmingham City University. True, he grew up in the city, the son of two committed Bla...

The City of Springfield’s investigation into the police department’s use of force is almost complete.

  Apple is celebrating American Heart Month by encouraging owners of older Apple Watch models to upgrade with increased trade-in prices during February. If youve been looking for a reason to upgrade your Apple Watch, February may be the time to do it. Apple Watch trade-in values have increased slightly, with the Apple Watch Series 2 seeing the most significant value increase. The maximum trade-in values for devices in good, working condition are now: Apple Watch Series 1: $40 (up from $35) ...

Apple is celebrating American Heart Month by encouraging owners of older Apple Watch models to upgrade with increased trade-in prices during February. If youve been looking for a reason to upgrade your Apple Watch, February may be the time to do it. Apple Watch trade-in values have increased slightly, with the Apple Watch Series 2 seeing the most significant value increase. The maximum trade-in values for devices in good, working condition are now: Apple Watch Series 1: $...

Macworld Every new Apple release that’s coming in February 2021 Its a short month but Apple has a lot going on. Credit: Apple/IDG Apple started 2021 the way it finished 2020: with a bang. While we haven’t gotten any hardware releases in 2021 yet, Apple had a fantastic start to the year, announcing a record-breaking quarter with a whopping $111 billion dollars in revenue on the backs of double-digit growth in every product category. It also outlined the ways it would be usi...

Read later Summary: Kicking off a short series on the state of Black representation in the tech sector, an update on how some firms are trying to address long-standing inequalities and encourage change. Today marks the start of Black History Month in the US, an occasion that Apple has chosen to mark with the launch of a limited edition Black Unity watch, so that anyone with $399 to spare can show their solidarity. (Apple - Black Unity) Black History Month, or African American History Month, is...