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Subject: The Review: Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Eclipse of Faculty Autonomy; the CDC and Paranoia It is too early to know what the long-term consequences of the coronavirus crisis will be for public attitudes toward expertise. While one imagines that the faster-than-expected development of vaccines will boost the prestige of pharmaceutical scientists, it is harder to predict how attitudes toward government organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might change. At the moment, trust is not especially high — and it has declined over the past year. How reputationally ...
The 33-year-old artist, who releases music mononymously as Eyme (pronounced like Amy), has grown into a woman who knows exactly who she is and what she wants. Her latest offering, “Busy,” is a hazy and pulsating record, replete with the essence of the late '90s R&B soundscape. Santos is polished and shows her true strengths through her ability to maintain and maneuver her vocals behind lush keyboards and triumphantly jazzy horns. But for the veteran artist, it has been a long journey to this point. “Busy” serves as a reintroduction. Santos wiped the majority of her old music...
Image: Paula Lobo A Sun Ra tribute concert by a member of the pathbreaking pop group Labelle leads to reflections on how Black women artists and scientists have often been at the vanguard of their disciplines—though most are still awaiting due recognition. This essay is featured in Boston Review’s new book, Ancestors. On the last night of Black History Month, February 29, 2020, I attended a concert held in the Temple of Dendur, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—the last such event that I would attend, it turned out, for a very long time. Those...