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For many years, there was one kind of swim cap. It was ultratight, made of latex or silicone — and it was “one size fits all.” But those swim caps left out large groups of swimmers, adding to structural inequities that often keep people of color out of the pool.
January 10, 2013 by 826chi in Beyond the Films In Soul Food Junkies, filmmaker Byron Hurt briefly describes what it used to be like for African Americans to travel in the United States. He talks about how blacks would take along boxed lunches in order to avoid being turned away from restaurants or dining cars. And […]
Lonely suburban existence is filmmaker catnip, but urban apartment life — especially in new, soundproof buildings — can be just as isolating, maybe more. High in a box in the sky, it’s easy to fancy yourself the last person on earth. Such is the sort of flat in which Adam (Andrew Scott), the dreamer at […]
LONDON – It’s 1964. No, wait. It’s 2023. The music blasting through the speakers at this dark and sticky club in East London is 1964’s “Tainted Love” by American artist Gloria Jones. You may have never heard of Jones, but you have listened to Soft Cell’s 1981 hit cover of the same song. If Aretha […]
Mitt Romney and his family are gathered inside a budget hotel room. It is January, 2008, and the New Hampshire primary is just days away. Romney, a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, sits in a high-backed chair, clad in his usual armor: a navy-blue tie, a gleaming white shirt with cufflinks, and dress pants. […]
Mitt Romney and his family are gathered inside a budget hotel room. It is January, 2008, and the New Hampshire primary is just days away. Romney, a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, sits in a high-backed chair, clad in his usual armor: a navy-blue tie, a gleaming white shirt with cufflinks, and dress pants. […]
LONDON – It’s 1964. No, wait. It’s 2023. The music blasting through the speakers at this dark and sticky club in East London is 1964’s “Tainted Love” by American artist Gloria Jones. You may have never heard of Jones, but you have listened to Soft Cell’s 1981 hit cover of the same song. If Aretha […]
By Robbie Meredith BBC News NI education correspondent 7 October 2023 Image source, Mignone Smith Image caption, Belfast’s Oh Yeah Music Centre was packed for the festival launch Soul music – along with a bit of jazz, funk and gospel – is to have its first dedicated festival in Northern Ireland, called Soultrane.
By Robbie Meredith BBC News NI education correspondent 53 minutes ago Image source, Mignone Smith Image caption, Belfast’s Oh Yeah Music Centre was packed for the festival launch Soul music – along with a bit of jazz, funk and gospel – is to have its first dedicated festival in Northern Ireland, called Soultrane.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Soul Cap has gotten the green light from swimming’s top governing body, which figures to be a huge step toward bringing more diversity to a largely white sport. You’ll have to look beyond the Olympics and world championships to spot its biggest impact. The oversized, silicone cap, which is designed especially […]