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Join host Brandon Hicks, with a special virtual appearance from Broadway’s Betsy Struxness ( Matilda), on a virtual night of murder mystery fun where you can either be a character in the murder mystery and act "on stage,” or be a detective and remain off-screen while watching and helping solve the crime. Saturday, January 23 Welcome to the Cypher FLS Academy is back with its weekend workshop series for adults (ages 18 and over), tailored for the Zoom environment. This two-day (Saturday and Sunday) introductory adult course covers beatbox, finding your flow, and telling your story ov...

This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. In this book, the author looks at the way the word ratchet operates in the lives of Black Queer women who are situated outside of the norms of (Black) respectability.

But just as the freedom fighters who came before, Stewart marched on. The families left behind were too important, the struggle was too real, the fight too meaningful, the stakes too high. Giving up was never an option. Each Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Stewart tries to shed light on the legacy of the late civil-rights leader. The real legacy, Stewart says, not the whitewashed history so often passed around. And this year, for those such as Stewart who helped lead the racial reckoning that unfolded across the nation in 2020 and who  recently watched a mob that included known white supremaci...

A post by peter Jordens. Naomie Pieter (30), choreographer and activist (Kick Out Zwarte Piet, Black Lives Matter Netherlands, Black Queer & Trans Resistance NL), is the winner of the Opzij Top 100 Most Influential Women 2020 in the culture category. Pieter is of Curaçaoan heritage. The Opzij Top 100 Most Influential Women is compiled annually by the Dutch feminist monthly magazine Opzij to underline and help increase the social impact of women in the Netherlands. There are ten categories, including sports, business, education and science, media, and culture. A statement on Opzij’s web...

The Best Graphic Design of the Year: Announcing the Winners of the PRINT Awards In 2020, after being independently acquired by a group of the industry’s best design minds, PRINT launched its first significant website redesign in a decade, and returned to the design scene to provide more inspiration, design thinking in action, thoughtful longreads, and eye candy galore than ever before. We also took stock of our signature annual competition—the Regional Design Awards—and decided it was time to bring it into the present like never before. When it launched in 1980, the competition had a ...