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2021 Cannes Lions Proves That Audio Campaigns Are Innovating More Than Ever By Roger Sho Gehrmann, Executive Creative Director, Studio Resonate The Radio and Audio Lions at Cannes has generally been a lower tier affair, with fewer entries and less fanfare. While (arguably) modern advertising was born on radio, Cannes Lions has always been mostly about TV spots. The radio and audio category is usually a few music campaigns with recording artist-tie ins, or clever traditional radio campaigns being dominated by a handful South American agencies. But looking at the shortlists and winners of 2021...

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Federal Militarization of Law Enforcement Must End The federal government arms local police forces in the United States with weapons of war. A program called “1033,” for the section of the act that created it, allows the Department of Defense to give state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies military hardware. Since its inception in 1996, nearly 10,000 jurisdictions have received more than $7 billion of equipment. This includes combat vehicles, rifles, military helmets, and misleadingly named “non-” or less-lethal weapons, some of which have featured in police raids and polic...

ADVERTISEMENT Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination. For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black people...

After Riot, Legal Reasons For Disparate Policing Prove Elusive By Sameer Rao | January 24, 2021, 8:02 PM EST Less than a week into the new year, Americans were confronted with the specter of insurrection as a mob echoing then-President Donald Trump's unfounded accusations of a rigged election stormed the U.S. Capitol. Images of people smashing windows, brandishing Confederate battle flags and zip ties, intimidating and assaulting Capitol Police officers and congresspeople and committing other wanton acts of destruction flooded social media feeds and news channels for days. Wi...