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‘Activism and organising is kinda sexy!’: Colman Domingo on Rustin, Oscar buzz and the Obamas
Film

‘Activism and organising is kinda sexy!’: Colman Domingo on Rustin, Oscar buzz and the Obamas

Colman Domingo is tipped for an Oscar nomination for his performance as Bayard Rustin, the unsung hero of the Civil Rights movement who has been largely written out of history for being gay

How The Specials and 2 Tone empowered a generation to believe in a multicultural future
Music

How The Specials and 2 Tone empowered a generation to believe in a multicultural future

Against a backdrop of division and despair, disaffected youth united through The Specials and 2 Tone to challenge the Thatcherite status quo

Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B: ‘By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times’
Race

Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B: ‘By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times’

Soul II Soul star Jazzie B told The Big Issue his teenage years in North London were spent dodging the ‘dirty Old Bill’

Beverley Knight: ‘My young black skin was politicised the day I was born’
Letter to my Younger Self

Beverley Knight: ‘My young black skin was politicised the day I was born’

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Black Lives Matter transformed the world’
Interview

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: ‘Black Lives Matter transformed the world’

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Children of Windrush: Mica Paris, Jay Blades, Lenny Henry and more reflect on heritage and identity
Letter to my younger self

Children of Windrush: Mica Paris, Jay Blades, Lenny Henry and more reflect on heritage and identity

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘It should not be a novelty that there’s more than one Black face on stage’
Letter To My Younger Self

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘It should not be a novelty that there’s more than one Black face on stage’

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends’
Music

Chi-chi Nwanoku: ‘I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends’

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it’s a nightclub policy – ‘one in, one out’
racism

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it’s a nightclub policy – ‘one in, one out’

I couldn’t find a book with a Black British romantic heroine, so I wrote one
Black British fiction

I couldn’t find a book with a Black British romantic heroine, so I wrote one

Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘It wasn’t easy for the Windrush generation’
Letter To My Younger Self

Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘It wasn’t easy for the Windrush generation’

David Harewood: ‘I would tell my younger self to get prepared. Because life is tough, isn’t it?’
drama

David Harewood: ‘I would tell my younger self to get prepared. Because life is tough, isn’t it?’

David Harewood: UK off-shored our racism and brutality
race

David Harewood: UK off-shored our racism and brutality

Jon Snow: ‘It was wonderful to talk to Nelson Mandela’
Letter to my Younger Self

Jon Snow: ‘It was wonderful to talk to Nelson Mandela’

In The Strays, horror confronts code-switching, class and the Black British experience
Horror

In The Strays, horror confronts code-switching, class and the Black British experience

The UK has 2,500 museums, but not one dedicated to Black British history. That could soon change
History

The UK has 2,500 museums, but not one dedicated to Black British history. That could soon change

Karla-Simone Spence: The Confessions of Frannie Langton ‘is as dark as it can get’
tv interview

Karla-Simone Spence: The Confessions of Frannie Langton ‘is as dark as it can get’

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence explain the ‘gross injustice’ of new film The Silent Twins
The Silent Twins

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence explain the ‘gross injustice’ of new film The Silent Twins

Doreen Lawrence: ‘I put my pain to the back of my mind when Stephen died’
Letter to my younger self

Doreen Lawrence: ‘I put my pain to the back of my mind when Stephen died’

Identitti review: A highly original take on the perils of idolising your heroes
review

Identitti review: A highly original take on the perils of idolising your heroes

Fighting the shameful legacy of colonialism in the Chagos Islands
exile

Fighting the shameful legacy of colonialism in the Chagos Islands

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Top 5 books about dual heritage, chosen by Eva Verde
Top 5 books

Top 5 books about dual heritage, chosen by Eva Verde

Sandra Newman’s The Men: A crunchy and compelling dystopia
Book reviews

Sandra Newman’s The Men: A crunchy and compelling dystopia

Top 5 books about multicultural London, chosen by Ania Bas
Top 5 books

Top 5 books about multicultural London, chosen by Ania Bas

Alison Hammond: ‘I knew very little about my own Black history in Britain’
Letter To My Younger Self

Alison Hammond: ‘I knew very little about my own Black history in Britain’