| Kwame Brathwaite, 85, Photographer With a Lens on Black Pride, Is Dead | Kwame Brathwaite, 85, Photographer With a Lens on Black Pride, Is Dead | | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/arts/kwame-brathwaite-dead.html | | 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z | | The New York Times | Tanisha C. Ford, a historian at UD, wrote of Kwame Brathwaite in the photography magazine Aperture in 2017, “His images, carefully calibrated to reflect a moment precisely, made Black beautiful for those who lived in the 1960s, and continue to do so for a generation today who might only now be discovering his work.” | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2133 | |
| Author Discussion on Healing the Community Through Black Literature | Author Discussion on Healing the Community Through Black Literature | | http://mms.tveyes.com/MediaView/?c3RhdGlvbj0yMDAmU3RhcnREYXRlVGltZT0wOSUyZjE5JTJmMjAyMiswMyUzYTM0JTNhNTcmRW5kRGF0ZVRpbWU9MDklMmYxOSUyZjIwMjIrMDMlM2EzNyUzYTQ0JiYmZHVyYXRpb249Mjk3MjkxJm1vZGVkaXRvcm9yZGVycGxhY2VkY2FsbGJhY2s9aHR0cHMlM2ElMmYlMmZ0dmV5ZXMtYXBpLX | | 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z | | CSPAN2 | Monica Coleman, Africana studies, draws on her research and the six books she has published to talk about the connection between spirituality and the journey of Black women as well as its impact on the healing of the Black community as a whole. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2047 | |
| Does Stand-Up Comedy Still Have The 'Right To Offend?' | Does Stand-Up Comedy Still Have The 'Right To Offend?' | | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/does-stand-up-comedy-still-have-the-right-to-offend_n_62ba11f1e4b0326883a8a1b5 | | 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z | | HuffPost | Tiffany Barber, Africana studies, says that some comedians haven’t shown enough interest in reevaluating how their comedy can reconnect with today’s world. “I think that society has shifted, even though there are all these isms that persist — racism, sexism, misogyny,” she said. “But there’s a vocabulary that I think everyday folks are able to access and marshal, even if they misuse it, that is causing the disconnect.” | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2030 | |
| Delaware offers litmus test for Biden's EJ plan | Delaware offers litmus test for Biden's EJ plan | | https://www.eenews.net/articles/delaware-offers-litmus-test-for-bidens-ej-plan/ | | 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z | | E&E News | “The fines don’t seem to be enough to stop that behavior. Many times, the fines are too lax.” Jeffrey Richardson, Africana studies, on efforts to limit pollution in the Route 9 corridor. A Delaware task force is working to meet a White House goal of ensuring that 40 percent of the benefits of clean energy and climate programs reach disadvantaged communities. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=1817 | |
| Ian Alexander Jr.’s death reignites a much-needed mental health dialogue | Ian Alexander Jr.’s death reignites a much-needed mental health dialogue | | https://thegrio.com/2022/01/24/ian-alexander-death-black-mental-health/ | | 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z | | TheGrio | “Mental health isn’t about class. It’s about chemistry, trauma, genetics, experience and all these things put together. Mental health is an equalizer—and all of us can experience that.” Monica Coleman, Africana Studies, on how Ian Alexander Jr.'s death has sparked a discussion around the state of mental health in Black America. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=1881 | |
| The Modern Western Is A Contradiction | The Modern Western Is A Contradiction | | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-modern-western-is-a-contradiction_n_61b38246e4b04ae319fee4af | | 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z | | HuffPost | "I think that the issue of the corrective or the reparative is very much at the center of this. It’s a very surface understanding and representation of Black life that’s not even about Black life. It’s about the genre itself.” Tiffany E. Barber, Africana studies and art history, on how "The Harder They Fall," a new movie about Black outlaws in the Wild West, suffers from flat characters in a story that simply replaces the typical white faces of the genre with Black ones. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=1891 | |
| Wilmington's turbulent history led to this exhibition. Here's why it's back 50 years later | Wilmington's turbulent history led to this exhibition. Here's why it's back 50 years later | | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2021/10/27/wilmingtons-turbulent-history-led-exhibition-why-its-back/8523454002/ | | 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z | | Delawareonline.com | “One way to get people to begin to acknowledge the treasure that African Americans have was to expose them to it and Percy Ricks was the vehicle for that.” James Newton, professor emeritus of Africana Studies, on an important artist whose work is being reprised through a new exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=1879 | |
| Can kids wear that? What to know about culturally insensitive costumes | Can kids wear that? What to know about culturally insensitive costumes | | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/can-kids-wear-that-what-to-know-about-culturally-insensitive-costumes | | 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z | | National Geographic | Experts say parents should give careful thought to costumes and avoiding misrepresenting a cultural image. “It’s about not reducing cultures to this narrow representation that you took off a hanger in the store,” says Tiffany E. Barber, assistant professor of Africana studies and art history at University of Delaware. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=1956 | |
| On Occasion of New Exhibition ‘Alma Thomas: Everything is Beautiful,’ Curators and Scholars Reflect on Lesser-Known Aspects of Artist’s Life | On Occasion of New Exhibition ‘Alma Thomas: Everything is Beautiful,’ Curators and Scholars Reflect on Lesser-Known Aspects of Artist’s Life | | https://www.culturetype.com/2021/07/28/on-occasion-of-new-exhibition-alma-thomas-everything-is-beautiful-curators-and-scholars-reflect-on-lesser-known-aspects-of-artists-life-and-work/ | | 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z | | Culture Type | Tiffany Barber, Africana Studies, talks about the essay she wrote for the exhibition. Barber's contribution focuses on the artist's self-fashioning in relation to her painting practice, a phenomenon largely undiscussed in the scholarly record. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=1914 | |
| Historians throw shade at colorism conflict in Netflix’s ‘Self Made’ Madam C.J. Walker series | Historians throw shade at colorism conflict in Netflix’s ‘Self Made’ Madam C.J. Walker series | | https://www.inquirer.com/news/self-made-netflix-madam-cj-walker-annie-turnbo-malone-black-hair-care-colorism-20200407.html | | 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z | | Inquirer.com | A Netflix series about Madame C.J. Walker, the first black female self-made millionaire, is coming under fire for a plot line that focuses on a "colorist" feud between Walker and a lighter-skinned female business rival. Tiffany Gill, Africana Studies, also expresses concern about how the portrayal fails to examine Walker's rise from poverty. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=1741 | |
