James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn’t for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengeance, strong…
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‘I love humans – it gives me the courage to approach them’: the disarming work of Mao Ishikawa ○
For five decades the Japanese photographer has captured the internal lives of a host of unlikely subjects, from dockers to Black GIs. Now a new show celebrates an artist dedicated to documenting the …
12 months ago
From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars ○
A Thousand Blows, the knockout new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, puts Victorian-era boxer Hezekiah Moscow in the spotlight. But it doesn’t even begin to do justice to the astonishi…
14 months ago
Why the Black American origins of mac and cheese are so hotly debated ○
In an era punctuated with persistent loss, our culinary rituals are a scrumptious bridge
It stood on my kitchen bookshelf, Sylvia’s Family Soul Food Cookbook: From Hemingway, South Carolina, to Harlem…
How Nikki Giovanni’s Black American consciousness changed the world ○
One of the foremost poets of the Black arts movement died on Monday but continues to inspire her literary children
“We are the culture bearers of planet Earth,” Nikki Giovanni said in 1978 on American…
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