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WeWork incurred $2.1 billion in losses during the first quarter of 2021, the
Financial Times reports, adding to overall losses of $3.2 billion in 2020. The co-working company suffered a series of blows in the past year, including losing a quarter of its members to remote work, shuttering unprofitable locations and shelling out $500 million in a settlement with former CEO and co-founder
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The San Diego Art Institute saw its city funding plummet from $46,000 in 2019-20 to only $17,000 in 2020-21. It has since merged with another museum to create the new Institute of Contemporary Art
San Diego arts organisations are still struggling from last year’s 50% cut in the city’s arts and culture budget, which Mayor Kevin Falcouner instituted to offset lost tax revenue in the early months of the pandemic. These cuts now remain in the mayor’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, despite the pandemic easing in the US, which has institutions deeply concerned about their future and urging leaders to reconsider.
Clueless about racism
On Tuesday, 5/18, I read the letters to the editor and COULD NOT believe what No Systemic Racism thinks he knows about RACISM or systemic racism. Would he be where he is today if he were Black or Native American, or an immigrant and experienced racism? Does he know what it feels like? He cited prominent known Black celebrities and he wondered why there is systemic racism when they succeeded. Believe me, they ALL experienced racism. And STILL do. Our first Black president and first lady still do.
I am a proud Lakota Sioux Native American who has EXPERIENCED RACISM, and my fellow Natives still do in South Dakota and across our other INDIAN LAND. Unless you have walked in my moccasins, or experienced being brutally brought to another land in shackles, or wrongfully profiled because of the color of your skin, or struggled to cross a river to improve your family’s chances for survival, do not preach about systemic racism because you haven’t a clue. Yo
The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is stepping down after nearly two decades
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Chon Noriega speaking during a tour of the Chicano Studies Research Center–organized exhibition “Home So Different, So Appealing” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2017. Noela Hueso |
May 21, 2021
When Chon Noriega became director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, he saw it as an opportunity for him to take some of the things he was doing at other institutions around the country bringing artist papers into archival settings, developing media-based teaching materials on race and ethnicity, and curating exhibitions and festivals and bring them into one place at UCLA.