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This is what you call a visionary, knowing where Apple is today.

Keynote from Steve Jobs at the International Design Conference in Aspen, 1983.

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The burden of a gene

A variant called APOE4 is notorious for its link to Alzheimer’s. Can new insights into its function help stave off disease?

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Congratulations Julie Mehretu:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/obama-foundation_i-dont-have-the-words-to-express-how-it-activity-7240381994197512192-YFnW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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The Dibabas - Running in the family https://lnkd.in/g_6Neahj

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An exclusive interview with a pioneer journalist Sophia Yilma | Afreeqa @ArtsTvWorld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Jg08UNgVI

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His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I is depicted in the central position of " The First Supper" by Tavares Strachan. https://lnkd.in/gtC6Fp7j "One of London’s most striking public art works has been unveiled in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London. Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan’s 21st-century version of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper (around 1515)—entitled The First Supper (Galaxy Black), 2023—greets visitors to the RA, welcoming them to the latest blockbuster exhibition Entangled Pasts 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change (3 February-28 April). Strachan’s piece—crafted from bronze, black patina and gold leaf—is a “monument to the singular contributions of 12 Black figures from the 17th century to the present day… they have in common histories of overcoming power structures designed to keep them oppressed”, writes the art historian Alayo Akinkugbe in the exhibition catalogue. Figures depicted include Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the queer gospel singer of the 1930s; Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the US Congress; the 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Marsha P. Johnson, a key figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969 in New York."  Via the Artnewspaper.com Fairfield House, Home of HIM Emperor Haile Selassie

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Meet Five Ethiopian Sisters who are all successful Athletes.

The trailblazing sisters are known as Anna Dibaba, Melat Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba, Ejegayehu Dibaba and Genzebe Dibaba from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The Dibaba sisters are the World's Most Decorated Athletics Family, among them they have won 4 Olympic Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medals, 3 Bronze Medals and 15 World Championships.

They were inspired by their cousin Derartu Tulu, who is the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

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