Once dominated by haute couture, fast trends and rapid consumption, fashion has taken on new meaning during this year of magical thinking. While fashion may be in mourning for what it once was due to the onset of the coronavirus, the grief surroundi...
With COVID-19 still in full swing and another wave of lockdowns looming as the temperature begins to drop, trying to find ways to socialize safely seems harder and harder every day. Even if we embrace digital happy hours, online family gatherings, so...
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been yet another blow in a year of tumult, and endless, lacerating upheavals, not only because of the sheer magnitude of her contributions but because her death exacerbates the vulnerability of the supreme court,...
A long-standing American institution, the nuclear family was first coined in 1947, defined as a man and a woman living in a house by themselves with two or three kids. The popular conception comes from the 1960s to 1970s, when American families began...
The word ‘mind’ creates various connotations in our very own mind depending upon what has been told to us so far. I think the conceptions associated with the word can be broadly classified under two separate umbrellas, those of the mind as interprete...
Four months ago I watched in alarm as fires devastated large sections of Australia. Speaking to my mum and my friends back home, I listened in dismay about the ash in the air and the fires that raged on, eluding human control. Firefighters bravely fo...
Double Jeopardy has long been an established principle in the American legal system however, however, loophole to this principle is the dual sovereignty exception, which allows offenders to be charged for the same crime on both state and federal leve...
When environmental activist and entrepreneur John Roulac first heard his mentor Will Allen lecture on the idea that agriculture is one of the leading contributors to climate change, he knew he needed to become a part of the solution. The greenhouse g...
AfroUrbanism centers the lived experience of black people in the design and creation of black communities. It puts black culture at the fore, taking into account the past harms, current challenges, and future aspirations of black city dwellers. AfroU...
Dr Thandeka Mazibuko is KZN’s first radio-oncologist and a registrar at Grey’s Hospital, in addition to being the founder of the NGO SinomusaNothando, a registered nonprofit in South Africa, founded in 2004. Dr Thandeka Mazibuko is passionate about...
