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Issa Rae built an empire of awkward, but she’s still not satisfied

Arts

With a hit web series and a potential show coming on HBO, comedian Issa Rae is making her akwardness pay off. The Senegalese immigrant to the US says she “didn’t know how to be black,” and never quite fit in with any group of kids around her. But that’s proved to be a gold mine for comedy.

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California April 12, 2014

It’s not OK to wear a Native American headdress at this Canadian music festival

Culture
Developer Maximiliano Firtman wears a prototype Google Glass device in November 2013.

Dubai’s traffic cops are getting Google Glasses

Global Scan
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Iranian hardliners jail young people because they’re being too Happy

Arts, Culture & Media

This photo of male chauvinism in Delhi has gone viral

Global Scan
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This photo of male chauvinism in Delhi has gone viral

Global Scan

India has been engaged in a long debate over the way its women are treated. The latest battle in that ongoing war came on Twitter recently, when someone posted a picture of two men sitting on Delhi metro seats reserved for women. It didn’t go over well. That and more in today’s Global Scan.

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This one music video has started a global wave of happiness

Arts, Culture & Media

Pharrell Williams’ feel-good music video for “Happy” inspired fans around the globe to create dance moves to his hit song. Now, he wants to harness that energy to promote the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness.

French electronic duo Daft Punk

Daft Punk does something no other French music group has

Arts, Culture & Media

Sunday night at the Grammys, Daft Punk was at the center of everything. The French musical duo, made mainstream by its summer hit Get Lucky, took home four Grammys, more than any French music group before it.

Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli releases ‘Prisoner of Conscious’

Arts, Culture & Media

Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli on Pussy Riot, the Arab Spring and writing conscious rap.

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