Global campaign launched to free jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ⊖
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Known as Palestine's Nelson Mandela, he has been in prison for more than 23 years and subjected to brutal abuse.
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‘Harlem has always been evolving’: inside the Studio Museum’s $160m new home ⊕
The iconic museum, which was founded in 1968, has been rehoused in 82,000-sq-ft building providing a new destination for Black art in New York City
Call it the second Harlem renaissance. On Manhattan’…
‘I enter a room and people say: “God just walked in”’: Morgan Freeman on voicing the divine, meeting Mandela – and his six decades on screen ⊕⊕
The 88-year-old actor has appeared in more than 100 films, playing everyone from presidents to prisoners. Here, he reflects on AI’s ‘robbing’ of his voice, not believing in Black History Month – and …
4 months ago
Harry Enfield defends his decision to 'black up' and portray Nelson Mandela as a crack dealer in disastrous comedy sketch as he blames 'cultural imperialism' for ensuing backlash ⊖⊖
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Enfield argued that the ensuing outrage reflected imported sensitivities from America rather than typical British attitudes.
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – exhilarating record of game-changing photographer ⊕⊕
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London film festival
Brathwaite’s empowering images of African Americans in the 1960s gave a new generation a fresh template for representation, brilliantly honoured here
There have been some fascinat…
5 months ago
Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena | Brian Eno ○
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I hope tonight’s gig will have the same galvanising effect as the 1988 Nelson Mandela concert – and give people courage to speak out about Gaza
In the summer of 1988 the music festival producer Tony H…
6 months ago
Harlem to Hebron: the long history of Black solidarity with Palestinians ○
A mutual alliance between oppressed people has been revived with Israel’s full-scale invasion of Gaza
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The Guardian view on statues: new monuments reflect changing values and reinvigorate the public realm | Editorial ○
It is refreshing to see women’s achievements celebrated, and statuary become more representative of a diverse nation
Efforts to ensure that modern values are reflected in public sculpture began well b…
7 months ago
Dalai Lama at 90: son of a buckwheat farmer who became a thorn in China’s side – in pictures ○
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The exiled spiritual leader, who turns 90 this week, has met everyone from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga while campaigning for autonomy and religious freedom for Tibet
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Is this an artist – or a coffee pot? The great William Kentridge reveals the strange secret to a great self-portrait ○
The South African artist has exhibited everywhere, bagging awards in art and theatre, while his work sells for millions. So why did he find becoming an artist so unnatural? Ahead of a major British s…