Notices by Flipboard Culture Desk (culturedesk@flipboard.social), page 4

Darryl George, a Black student in Texas, has been told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program after a month of suspension because he has dreadlocks. His family have filed a formal complaint and a federal civil rights lawsuit, saying Texas's governor and attorney general failed to enforce the CROWN Act, which outlaws discrimination based on hairstyles. CBS has more information.

https://flip.it/RWDzWg

#Texas #CROWNAct #BlackMastodon

Our social media feeds are shaped by algorithms, and that means the things we see, experience and like in the real world are too. The New Yorker's @chaykak has written about this "algorithmication" in "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture," which will be out in January 2024. @miaq interviewed him for @Flipboard's podcast, The Art of Curation. Here's the episode and some info about what they discussed.

https://flip.it/Vm-fVl

#Culture #Curation #AI #SocialMedia

Ray Liotta, who died in May 2022, has been posthumously nominated for an Emmy for his performance in Apple TV+'s "Black Bird." In a previously unpublished interview, he talked to Deadline about the role, how he got started as an actor, and his experiences during the making of "Field of Dreams," (which he never saw) and "Goodfellas."

https://flip.it/STvT1G

#Movies #Entertainment #Emmys #RayLiotta

Dip hop is a style of rap that sprang from the Deaf community, using sign languages and informed by Deaf cultural experiences. In this @TheConversationUS article, musicologist Katelyn Best looks at the birth of the genre, its many forms, and how it is breaking into the mainstream.

https://flip.it/E1_N55

#Music #HipHop #DipHop #Deaf #DisabilityPrideMonth