Indian writer, diplomat and politician Dr Shashi Tharoor, in his address to the Oxford Union Society, names some of the effects of British colonial policy on the Indian people and economy.

“Come out now!” is the programmatic motto of the 1st Roma Biennale.

Published in 1998, British journalist and writer Kodwo Eshun’s book spoke and speaks so eloquently about music and identity(s), drum computers and (non-)human bodies, electronic sound aesthetics and Afrofuturism, forms of world appropriation and worldliness of popular music, that one can easily become dizzy.

Under the motto “More than just a union”, activists under the umbrella of the “Free Workers’ Union” and organized in grassroots trade unions and local syndicates are fighting against economic exploitation of all kinds.

Using Berlin as an example, the data journalism project of the Protestant School of Journalism researches the often more than incomplete official figures and statistics on homelessness and strives for a vivid, graphic presentation.

Over 80 different groups and individuals from Austria, Switzerland and Germany belong to the association – work is done on various fields of social reproduction such as domestic work, assistance, health, sexuality, care, housing or education.

The debut single by Cologne rapper Leila Akinyi talks lightly and proudly about her self-image as a Black woman in Germany.

Offensive, discursive, narrative: just three of the attributes that could be mentioned in the context of publicist Mely Kiyak’s weekly column on the website of Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater.

The episodes are called “Poetry Meets Soul with Jumoke Adeyanju”, “G20 Protest with Kofi Shakur” or “Exit Racism with Tupoka Ogette and Stephen Lawson” – unagitated, serious, dynamic and often poetic video/multimedia portraits of people of color and LGBTI* people who live, work, are politically, artistically, activistically active in Berlin.

“Celebrate disabled and crazy”-this is the motto under which the Pride Parade Berlin has been taking place since 2013, arising from an initiative of ak mob and the AK Psychatriekritik.

The project is a campaign by the U.S. nonprofit organization Witness Change and gathers stories from LGBTQI* people about discrimination and persecution, empowerment, pride, and living beyond life.

The feature film tells of the summer of 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, of life and growing up as a Black child in the U.S., the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and its residents, financial scarcity and the loss of a loved one.