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2 Dec

Here’s How An African-American Culture Class Goals To Keep

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Here’s How An African-American Culture Class Goals To Keep
Hill Street Studios An African-American culture class that has helped change the lives of youth at city schools in Roanoke, VA is now available to the general public. The organization Total Motion for Progress (TAP) first introduced the category, African American Culture and Contemporary Issues (AACCI), in 2008 to forestall young Black men from dropping out of highschool, based on The Roanoke Times. TAP’s youth services and education manager Lateefah Trent told the newspaper that students typically drop out of faculty because they aren't optimistic in regards to the future.  “They don’t feel like they’re going to essentially live past age of 21 or 25, or that they’re not going to amount anything, so ‘What’s the purpose?’” Trent said. But, Trent says AACCI class teaches...
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14 Nov

This culture of dissecting other people’s looks needs to

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This culture of dissecting other people’s looks needs to
Picking apart celebrity faces may seem to be harmless entertainment, but we aren’t consuming it consequence-free My teenage years coincided, quite unfortunately, with the peak of Heat magazine. Week after week, I might examine one of the best celebrity tummies, the worst summer bodies, the highest 20 celebrity “flaws” – Uma Thurman’s big hands, Emma Bunton’s large brow – the cellulite, the sweat patches, the tanning disasters. All of them dissected and analysed in excruciating detail.  Uma Thurman and Emma Bunton may or may not have seen the zoomed in paparazzi pictures of their so-called flaws splashed across the covers, but every young girl and boy with a “large brow” or “big hands” reading...
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22 Oct

How culture has modified since Christina Aguilera’s 2002 hit

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How culture has modified since Christina Aguilera’s 2002 hit
To mark its twentieth anniversary, the singer has updated her ‘Beautiful’ music video – here, we speak to the director to learn the way much, and the way little, beauty expectations have shifted Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” is an iconic music video. Released in 2002, the song was the second single from her image-shifting album Stripped, a raw soulful ballad which followed the attention-grabbing first single “Dirty”. With lyrics centred around insecurity, self-esteem and inner beauty, the video shone a highlight on the people affected by society’s strict beauty standards, and people outside of and rejected by the mainstream. Touching on themes from eating disorders and body image to sexuality, the video won a GLAAD Media...
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