Located in the Virgo constellation, NGC 4951 is located roughly 50 million light-years away from Earth. It’s classified as a Seyfert galaxy, which means that it’s an extremely energetic type of galaxy with an active galactic nucleus (AGN). However, Seyfert galaxies are unique from other sorts of AGNs because the galaxy itself can still be clearly seen – different...
FS- ISAC is a Global body of Financial companies coming together to share patterns of attacks and solutions to help the global BFSI fraternity mitigate attacks and prepare for eventualities of attacks. Ray Irving the Managing Director of Global Business at FS- ISAC shares the findings of the group on the patterns of attacks on the financial services companies at the...
Photography by Leeshia Lee. Audio by Kyle Vass. In 2019, Matthew Moore was a ninth-grader at Woodrow Wilson High School in Beckley, West Virginia, where he was benched from the basketball team when the head coach said his dreadlocks were not “neat” enough for the team’s standards. That night, when Moore’s mom, Tarsha Bolt, showed up at the...
The place of Black men in higher education, both as students and as educators, has always been precarious—even before the pandemic. A U.S. Department of Education report found in 2016 that Black men made up just 2 percent of the nation’s teaching workforce, representing the lowest population group in education. As the realities of the pandemic set in last...
Photographer Ron Tarver grew up in Fort Gibson, a small town in Oklahoma where horses, cattle and Wrangler jeans were embedded into the rhythms of everyday life. His grandfather was a cowboy admired for his roping abilities, and many of his family members owned ranches in the area. But he wanted, he told me, “to get away from horses,” and in 1983, he...
There are not many places where you can witness an all-Black mosh pit thrash to heavy-metal quintet Paleos, and then moments later join in a family-reunion style dance to Maze and Frankie Beverly’s “Before I Let Go.” But Afropunk Atlanta is in a league of its own. The music festival, which took place last weekend, prides itself on curating a safe...
The Metropolitan Opera has ended its 138-year epoch of composer apartheid with the presentation of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, a production composed by New Orleans’ most acclaimed living trumpet player, Terence Blanchard. Based on the coming of age memoir by Charles M. Blow, the three-act opera, originally commissioned and developed by Opera Theatre of St. Louis...
This story is a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. Today’s category is copaganda, and this shade of blue is nobody’s best color. With 11 Emmy nominations for RuPaul’s Drag Race and its assorted spinoffs, this could be a historic year for...
On this episode of As The South Votes, host Anoa Changa nerds out about three things to keep in mind about presentations of data, how to capture the political shift in this moment, and how to do better in the future. Since the conclusion of the 2020 election period, pundits and commentators (both real and armchair) have tried to explain the breakdown of results...
People from around the world know of the famous book “Black Elk Speaks.” Published in 1932, it recounts the stories and spiritual teachings of Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950), a revered holy man among the Oglala Lakota. What is less well known is that Black Elk was also a leader right here at Red Cloud, as a part of the parish community that continues to celebrate his...