Lara Makhlouf From early American colonial days to the present, prison labor has been a source of free and cheap labor. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery “except as a punishment for a… Continue Reading
Kuukuwa Manful, SOAS, University of London Owusu Addo Residence by John Owusu Addo. Kuukuwa Manful, CC BY-NC-ND As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the… Continue Reading
Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, UCL and Maxwell Mutanda, UCL Burkina Faso’s Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first Black person to win the Pritzker prize, architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel. Kéré’s work has consistently highlighted the… Continue Reading
LewYong Gerbrandt Products reflect society’s biases Racial bias in product development and the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) has increasingly been recognized as a socital problem. Three common biases have been identified in product design: Bias evident in how devices… Continue Reading
Rachel Justice Food deserts are regions that are defined by their residents’ lack of access to groceries, especially non-processed produce and meats. Food deserts are a problem across the nation, both in urban and some rural areas. Food deserts exist… Continue Reading
Tandin Norbu Segregated Cemeteries In 1991, the African Burial Grounds in lower Manhattan were rediscovered, bringing to light the lost history of enslaved Africans in Colonial and Federal New York City. Evidence of a burial site had been discovered several… Continue Reading
Audrey Buck and Aleah Davis Bank of America tower from Bryant Park. (Photo: Rhododendrites) Sustainability as a Selling Point In 2010, The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York City was opened as the world’s first-ever LEED-platinum… Continue Reading
Sana Ahrar & Tazrin Islam Fortified cities and walls have been used to keep out foreign invaders since ancient times. In today’s socio-political context, walls symbolizing national and international disputes have become notorious. Typically, a dispute or conflict takes place… Continue Reading
Enam Rabbi Adnan and Will Mattern United States history contains many legends about how our nation was founded and how it expanded. Such myths have been handed down over the generations. While presented as historical fact, our national myths… Continue Reading