Amazon is experimenting with more generative AI ads. In September, Amazon released a product note that search ads were coming to Rufus, the year-old shopping assistant that uses generative AI to help shoppers find products. Now, Amazon has turned on the spigot with video ads. Amazon confirmed to ADWEEK that it is testing video ads…
When short sellers have you in their sights, it can be a wild ride, and adtech darling AppLovin is finding that out firsthand. AppLovin has been the target of multiple recent short seller reports, the splashiest of which was published last week by investing newsletter The Bear Cave. This week, three other shorting-focused groups–Sakura Research,…
After previously announcing that a B/R Sports add-on would become available to Max subscribers at an additional cost, Warner Bros. Discovery is changing its game plan. Today, WBD clarified that its plans to go with a paid sports add-on, which were originally announced in 2023, will not move forward … “for now,” the company added…
After previously announcing that a B/R Sports add-on would become available to Max subscribers at an additional cost, Warner Bros. Discovery is changing its game plan. Today, WBD clarified that its plans to go with a paid sports add-on, which were originally announced in 2023, will not move forward … “for now,” the company added…
Shake Shack’s chief marketing officer (CMO) Jay Livingston is leaving his role at the end of next month, he confirmed to ADWEEK. He has yet to announce his next move. Livingston made the announcement today in a lengthy post on his LinkedIn page. “I’m finally getting around to writing this, but after over six incredible…
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”
The debut of Fox News’ new 9 p.m. ET show My View with Lara Trump easily won the night in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. It was also FNC’s most-watched 9 p.m. hour on a Saturday since the first assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in July 2024. MSNBC saw its biggest total…
The debut of One Nation with Brian Kilmeade on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. ET produced big numbers for Fox News, as it finished as the top show of the night in the Adults 25-44 demo across all three cable networks. However, One Nation was not FNC’s top show in total viewers–that honor went to…
Veteran KEYE reporter Fred Cantu will retire at the end of March after 53 years in local TV. Cantu began his broadcasting career in 1972 when he was 17 and has worked in the Austin market for 45 years. He joined CBS Austin in 2002 after working at Fox 7 and KVUE. “Being in this…
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Tired of the epidemic of police killing people in the USA, artist Dread Scott printed the words “A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday” on a flag. He got the idea in 2015, right after the police shot Walter Scott in the back as he was fleeing after a control for a non-functioning brake light. The work is an update of the flag that the NAACP flew from their national headquarters window in New York in the nineteen-twenties and thirties the day after someone was lynched. This form of silent protest read: A Man Was Lynched Yesterday and was part of the organisation’s anti-lynching campaign.
Dread Scott, A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday, 2015. At Porta San Felice. Photo: Valentina Cafarotti
The NAACP flag, A Man Was Lynched Yesterday, 1936
During the Jim Crow era, one of the many ways white U.S. citizens terrorised Black people (but also Jews, gay people, immigrants, catholics, radicals, labour organisers, Latinos, etc.) was by lynching. Often public. Some 4,742 people were victims of these acts of race terrorism in the US between 1882 and 1968. The vast majority of them were black.
For many Black people today, the police instill the same fear as the lynch mobs of the past century. It is a threat that hangs over all Black (and Brown) men. Even when they carry no weapon, they run the risk of being killed by the police for any reason.
Dread Scott, A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
The flag was exhibited on the facade of the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York in 2016, in reaction to the police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. The gallery was eventually forced to remove the flag from the front of the building after legal intimidations from their landlord. An echo of what happened in 1938 when, threatened to lose its lease, the NAACP had to discontinue the practice.
Dread Scott, A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday, 2015. At Porta San Felice. Photo: Valentina Cafarotti
A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday was part of the public programme of Art City Bologna, a series of events that accompanies the contemporary art fair each year. The curators of the event hung the black flag over Porta San Felice, one of the ten historic Gates of the city. The flag, its warning and its criticism travel uncomfortably well through history and space. Although Bologna is far away from New York or Baltimore, we should never take for granted basic human rights, especially not in Europe where adherence to far-right ideologies is on the rise. And although Italian police officers are nowhere near as trigger happy as their U.S. counterparts, there have been a number of incidents in recent years that strongly suggest police racism. I’m thinking about Moussa Diarra killed by a police officer in Verona (Matteo Salvini cheered his death with a cruel tweet saying “He will not be missed”.) Or the young Ramy who was killed in a scooter accident likely caused by the man driving police car (again, Salvini’s comment on the event demonstrated a total absence of compassion.) Or migrants tortured by Italian police officers in Verona. There are many other cases.
“My art often looks at how the past sets the stage for the present but also exists in the present in new form,” Scott writes. “This artwork is an unfortunately necessary update to address a horror from the past that is haunting us in the present.”
Investigative journalists around the world relied on funding from the U.S. Now, those watchdogs are scrambling to survive a sudden cash crunch.
Investigative journalists around the world relied on funding from the U.S. Now, those watchdogs are scrambling to survive a sudden cash crunch.
Investigative journalists around the world relied on funding from the U.S. Now, those watchdogs are scrambling to survive a sudden cash crunch.
O futuro acaba de avançar seu relógio para Austin, Texas. Pela primeira vez, o Museum of the Future (MOTF) de Dubai desembarca no South by Southwest (SXSW) para uma imersão de cinco dias no que poderá ser nosso mundo em 2071. A experiência, que acontece de 7 a 11 de março, transformará um espaço na …
Leia Dubai traz museu do futuro para o SXSW com visão de 2071 na íntegra no B9.
Investigative journalists around the world relied on funding from the U.S. Now, those watchdogs are scrambling to survive a sudden cash crunch.
ABC News’ Good Morning America remained the most-watched morning news broadcast for the second week in a row for the week of Feb. 17. It was a narrow win for GMA as only 13,000 total viewers separated it from NBC News’ Today. All indications point to a competitive battle for first place between the two…
ABC News’ Good Morning America remained the most-watched morning news broadcast for the second week in a row for the week of Feb. 17. It was a narrow win for GMA as only 13,000 total viewers separated it from NBC News’ Today. All indications point to a competitive battle for first place between the two…
O futuro acaba de avançar seu relógio para Austin, Texas. Pela primeira vez, o Museum of the Future (MOTF) de Dubai desembarca no South by Southwest (SXSW) para uma imersão de cinco dias no que poderá ser nosso mundo em 2071. A experiência, que acontece de 7 a 11 de março, transformará um espaço na …
Leia Dubai traz museu do futuro para o SXSW com visão de 2071 na íntegra no B9.
After three weeks of trending downwards, the CBS Evening News moved the ratings needle upwards during the week of Feb. 17. The reimagined newscast recorded gains in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for the first time since its revamp. To make things even sweeter, it was the only evening news broadcast to record…
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