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Translating Culture Through the Faces of Qatar

By David Belcher — 2021

“In my artwork, I try to show my culture, and if someone asks about something they don’t understand, I will explain.”

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Mexican Muslims

VICE Mexico traveled to San Cristóbal—in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico—to meet Cheb Cheb Ibrahim, one of the first Mexican Indians to convert to Islam and a member of the only indigenous Muslim community in Mexico.

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2014
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Junot Díaz Talks Religion, Dominican Identity, and Writing.

Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” talks about the role of religion in the Dominican Republic and the political power of literature.

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2017
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Centering BIPOC Communities in Dharma Practice

Please join us for the eighth and final event in the Harvard Buddhist Community's 2021 Buddhism and Race Speaker Series. This event will be a panel discussion comprised of representatives from three BIPOC-led centers.

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2021
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Empowering Indigenous Creators

Wapikoni Mobile is changing the lives of Indigenous youth one creator at a time. This stopover season, “Wapikoni from Coast to Coast: Building Bridges and Reconciliation through Media Arts” is empowering young Indigenous Canadians to be media creators.

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2017
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Coffee, Connection and Culture: How two South LA entrepreneurs are Confronting Racial Inequity

South LA Cafe founders, Joe and Celia Ward-Wallace, are working to bring change and positive impact to their neighborhood through their coffee shop and community-supported market.

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2021
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Regeneration Through Culture: Building Spaces for Communities | Hannah Taylor | TEDxWolverhampton

In her insightful talk Hannah explores the lack of public space and its effects on community and how providing supportive spaces for the coming together of communities to realise ideas is the most important way to regenerate a city.

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2019
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The Indigenous Artist Using Performance to Preserve Tradition

Raul Baltazar uses sculpture, video, and performance art to bridge indigenous and Western cultures. As a fine artist and a mentor to incarcerated youth, Baltazar brings his art into public spaces to open up new perspectives.

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2020
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State of Creativity: Creative Placemaking

The concept of “creative placemaking,” the integration of a community’s artistic and cultural assets in community planning and revitalization, is gaining momentum in places like Boyle Heights.

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2015
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Catalyst for Change: Asian American Narratives | Ellen Bepp

Ellen Bepp has been exhibiting her work since the 1980s, drawing from her Japanese heritage to create a wide range of art from wearable art, textile paintings, taiko drumming performance, theatrical costuming, mixed media collage and handcut paper.

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2021
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5 Asian Americans on Disrupting the Creative Industries

Jeannie Jay Park, Masami Hosono, Danny Bowien, Gia Seo and Lumia Nocito talk identity, community and misperceptions.

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2021
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