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My older sister, Rae, makes me write five hundred words every night before I go to bed. Tonight, I want to write five gazillion because of this speech by a Black man with big beautiful eyeballs and a big beautiful voice named Jesse Jackson.

The 1619 Project

Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine

Technik jenseits der von den Produzenten intendierten Nutzungsweise ganz unterschiedlich angeeignet, uminterpretiert oder auch subversiv verwendet werden kann und keineswegs in den Kategorien der Rationalität und der Nützlichkeit aufgeht.

Kulturgeschichte Der Technik

Martina Heßler

But not always. The ongoing disputes over whose stuff is whose obscures a more important irony: music has midwifed the only true integration this country has known. Minstrelsy’s nonconsensual impersonations hog the headlines because it was the start of American popular culture as we still know it. But the history of American music also effervesces with work made by white people alongside Black people.

The 1619 Project

Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine

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