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Black British culture

July 2024

  • A woman wearing a white vest and denim shorts skating backwards near Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London

    City rollers: London’s flourishing skating scene – in pictures

    Since stumbling across ‘jam’ skaters at his local park in the summer of 2021, the photographer Roland Ramanan has embedded himself in the scene
  • Close-up image of Rapman in a zipped-up, shiny puffer jacket

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Writer-director Rapman on creating Netflix’s global smash hit Supacell – podcast

    This week, Chanté Joseph meets Rapman, the writer and director of Supacell, one of the most watched shows on Netflix, to discuss what it takes to make a hit series, how he’s redefining the superhero genre and what he plans to do next
  • Nadine Mills plays a south Londoner with superpowers in the hit Netflix show Supacell

    Hit Netflix show Supacell is raising awareness of sickle cell anaemia

    Supacell follows a group of south Londoners who develop superpowers, interspersing real-life issues that affect Black and mixed-race Britons

June 2024

  • Emma and Nicole sitting on a sofa

    ‘We now feel proud to be mixed’: the blessings and biases of being biracial

  • A sculpture of an Afro comb, ‘All Power to All People’ artwork by US artist Hank Willis Thomas, in the West Holts field at Glastonbury

    Increase in Black artists on Glasto bill reflects cultural shift

  • Netflix’s Supacell.

    ‘I don’t want it to be like Marvel’: the Netflix superhero drama swapping spandex for south London

  • Benedict Lombe wearing brown turban and gold hoops and cream adidas sweatshirt

    ‘We needed this’: UK audiences thirsty for black British love stories, says playwright

May 2024

  • Actor and writer Paterson Joseph

    ‘I was told I was stupid’: Peep Show’s Paterson Joseph on his debut novel – and writing three operas

  • The BFI Southbank cinema in London.

    BFI’s mission to widen access to TV archives

  • Jason Okundaye

    My hunt for a missing TV episode – and what it shows about being Black in Britain

    Jason Okundaye
  • Stormzy at #Merky FC HQ at the Selhurst sports arena in south London.

    ‘We’re so much more than that’: Stormzy opens #MerkyFC HQ centre to tackle racial inequality in football jobs

April 2024

  • Rapper in silhouette

    Rap music used as evidence in scores of trials in England and Wales, study finds

  • ‘There is something ghostly about being adopted. A set of tiny details is not much to make into a whole person’ Jackie Kay.

    Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’

  • Writer Bernardine Evaristo at the Hay festival in 2022

    Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA

  • Drummer Bobbie Vylan, left, with Bobby Vylan on stage in 2018.

    ‘We answer to nobody’: duo Bob Vylan on humility, hell-raising – and punk hypocrisy

March 2024

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary

    The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world
  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon’s tomb - the island’s biggest tourist attraction. However, while overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

    The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon’s tomb – the island’s biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world
    • ‘What’s the big deal?’: London Black Out night welcomed despite No 10 concerns

    • The Audio Long Read
      ‘Good times and dances might last for ever’: the sound of London’s Black gay scene – podcast

    • Walkouts and rows in the stalls as politics enters Theatreland stage left – or maybe right

      Vanessa Thorpe
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