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MLK To BLM To Palestinian Lives Matter: My African-American Eyes On Our World

Martin Luther King Jr. never directly addressed the Israel-Palestine conflict. But I think I know how he would feel today.

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No More Mozart? Classical Music V. Cancel Culture

The University of Oxford is planning to change its curriculum to focus on fewer white composers and more non-European music. But does it really make sense to bury Beethoven and Brahms?

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In The News

Black Lives Matter In Video Games Too

In our already fractured times, virtual reality is edging toward ‘hybrid’ reality — and that’s a problem that the gaming industry must face.

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Eyes on the U.S. Future Society

Surveillance Tech Eyes COVID-19 And Black Lives Matter

PARIS — It’s been a tumultuous few months for so-called “surveillance tech.” Most recently, following pushback from Black Lives Matter activists, Amazon has suspended police use of its facial recognition software for one year. IBM followed suit, announcing it will stop offering its similar software for “mass surveillance or racial profiling.” The moves from the […]

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Eyes on the U.S. Ideas Son Of A Gunnar

From MLK To Olof Palme To Black Lives Matter

PARIS — That people should be judged by the content of their character was one of those rare elementary-school concepts that actually stuck. It was no doubt the candor and simplicity of the idea, but it may have helped that my history teacher Mr. Hansson for once deviated from his trademark text-heavy PowerPoints — and […]

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