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In a display hall at the Nairobi National Museum is a piece made up of 2,000 shipping labels. Each one bears data about an object taken from present-day Kenya by Europeans during the colonial period, many of them stolen. But the name of the piece is “31,302”: the number of Kenyan pieces held in European and American institutions, as cataloged by the International Inventories Programme, a Kenyan-European collective. The collective put together this exhibition, called “Invisible Inventories,” to highlight the tens of thousands of objects plundered from Africa, and examine th...

Across the United States, large food banks were distributing 80% more food in spring 2020 than they had been a year before, as pandemic lockdowns pushed many people out of work. Yet many farms found themselves with unsold food as restaurants or cafeterias closed.  Around the nation, some nonprofits and governments saw opportunities to match unsold crops with people who needed them.  Why We Wrote This When the pandemic struck, a rise in hunger was matched by a surge in farms that lost much of their normal demand. Here’s how one effort to get food where it’s needed may have enduring benef...

Quick Read By Martin A. Davis Jr. Correspondent Corliss Fingers, director of strength and conditioning at Bethune-Cookman University, has been breaking barriers throughout her roughly 25-year career. “When I started,” she says, “I was on an island by myself.” While there has been growth in the number of female strength coaches in collegiate athletics, progress has been slow. In 2012, some 14% of college strength coaches were women. In 2020, it’s still 14%. Between those years, the percentage was never higher than 15. Why We Wrote This As female strength coach...

Loading the player... Have you heard of “doomscrolling” or “doomsurfing”? These are new terms that describe the habit of endlessly scrolling through negative news and social media feeds, which reportedly increased during the pandemic. According to one source, the trend has been linked to anxiety and depression, but is somehow strangely soothing. Although I wouldn’t identify myself as a doomscroller, I would say that this past year I consumed more news than perhaps at any other time in my life in an effort to understand the many intricate issues going on. At one point,...

During Ramadan in ordinary years, mosques are at their fullest. Neighbors and friends pray shoulder to shoulder each night, and the entire society is on the exact same schedule to the very second – eating, praying, and celebrating in lockstep. But this year, after a March in which Jordan saw some of the worst coronavirus numbers in the world, the government imposed a series of restrictions for Ramadan, closing mosques and imposing curfews just before the sunset iftar meal that breaks the daylong fast. Why We Wrote This Holidays have been interrupted by the pandemic and lockdowns across the...