Tag: culture

Thanks to modern technology, languages, ethnic films and historical discoveries can all be permanently preserved. Now Ukraine’s cultural heritage is under threat. That’s why a Viennese organisation has joined forces with American educational institutions to store at-risk information on a central, secure server. A programme helps find documents, photographs, songs, cutting patterns, and films from Ukraine on local online...

New outfits can be created at home. For new hairstyles we visit a barber. But as two Black alumni from the University of Toronto recently discovered, finding someone we trust to do our hair is easier said than done. Their response: to design an app for beauty salons run by Black people. Anyone looking for a new hairstyle can...

Nowadays you can find almost everything online, including films made by and starring Black people. Now, a woman from Milwaukee is providing further insight into Black lives. To celebrate ‘Black History Month’, she, along with her son and daughter-in-law, has launched an app that tests our knowledge of Afro-American history and culture in a playful way. There are 10...

Lang may yer lum leek. A common enough expression in Scots, but good luck working out what it means. An Inuk woman from Canada is offering online language courses in Inuktitut, her mother tongue. The goal? To help people reconnect with Inuit culture, and ensure that Inuktutit is kept alive. The dialect was banned during colonisation, meaning it is...