Peak Blackness is a photo blog that's dedicated to finding the single blackest moment in American history. Was it Al Sharpton hanging with James Brown, Sam Cooke and Muhammad Ali in the studio or Harriet Tubman doing the Wobble? A team of journalists is working on narrowing it down - one image at a time.
Read MoreMoment from 80s and 90s pop culture have now become iconic. One artist whose work illustrates that fact is graphic designer Xavier Payne. The 25-year-old from Nashville made a big splash throughout social media when people began sharing some of his illustrations, work he says is influenced by pop culture, contemporary and historical art, photography and typography. "People know those moments like they know any moment in their own life. I think that’s dope," Payne says.
Read MoreWhere do we draw the line between “appropriate” forms of cultural exchange and more damaging patterns of cultural appropriation? To be honest, I don’t know that there is a thin, straight line between them. But even if the line between exchange and appropriation bends, twists, and loop-de-loops in ways it would take decades of academic thought to unpack, it has a definite starting point: Respect.
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