{"id":98301,"date":"2020-01-26T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98301"},"modified":"2020-01-26T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:23:39","slug":"outrage-at-whites-only-image-as-ugandan-climate-activist-cropped-from-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/26\/outrage-at-whites-only-image-as-ugandan-climate-activist-cropped-from-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage at whites-only image as Ugandan climate activist cropped from photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy\u00a0 The Guardian (UK)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Vanessa Nakate was excised from image, which also featured Greta Thunberg, \u2018purely on composition grounds\u2019 says Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ugandan cropped out of climate activists photo says she now understands racism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6ksiL-02q4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has called out racism in media after she was cropped out of a photo featuring prominent climate activists including Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nakate made the comment in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanessa_vash\/status\/1220722317002756098\">video<\/a> which has since gone viral, adding that she now understood the definition of the word racism\u201d for the first time in her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group had given a news conference in Davos on Friday when Nakate was then cropped out of a published version by the Associated Press, a US news agency. She questioned the removal on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/whites-only-photo-uganda-climate-activist-vanessa-nakate\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/whites-only-photo-uganda-climate-activist-vanessa-nakate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy\u00a0 The Guardian (UK) Vanessa Nakate was excised from image, which also featured Greta Thunberg, \u2018purely on composition grounds\u2019 says Associated Press Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has called out racism in media after she was cropped out of a photo featuring prominent climate activists including Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}