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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 “education, criminal justice reform, and economic equality." And this month, in celebration of Black His...

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 Unity Sport Band that is draped in black, green, and red which was inspired by the Pan-African flag. T...

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 from earning a place beside James Blood Ulmer and Sonny Sharrock as an innovator, and influencing fu...

‘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, he discusses the importance of Black radical tradition – and why TV quarrels with Nigel Farage...

‘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 Black activists, who established numerous organisations and promoted the Black anti-racist intellectual...