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Black Girl Festival | The first festival dedicated to black British female creativity is on!

What does it mean to be a black girl in the UK nowadays? How to deal with the implications resulting from the cultural diversity and lack of representation of black women of all ..

Roots Manuva | In conversation with the “Urban voice of Britain”

Chilling out with his crew, Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva chats and dances around while DJ Snuff scratches 90s hip-hop vinyls. We are at Archspace, in Hackney (London), and the r..

Sufyvn | The Sudanese electronic producer exploring the new frontiers of IDM

The cultural, artistic and social narratives of distant countries such as Sudan are always so inaccurate and imbued with a post-colonial notch that it is very easy to get the wro..

Black Movie Summer | Pascal Beugré Tellier nous parle de ‘Out of Body’

C’est à coups de fourchette dans son délicieux crumble fait maison que je me retrouve enfin en tête à tête avec Pascal Beugré Tellier. Danseur et chorégraphe (je vous l’ai presen..

Afropunk Fest | Ready for Paris, London, New York and waiting for Afropunk’s new website

Last year, on our way back from New York, we widely showed and talked about our experience at Afropunk Fest. More than 60,000 people gathered for two days in Commodore Park, Broo..

Four badass Women of the World perform ‘Hejira’ at South Bank Centre

The Royal Festival Hall of the Southbank Centre in London was enlightened by incredibly talented women who joined to celebrate International Women’s day with Hejira, Joni Mitchel..

Lagos Photo Festival 2016 | Rituals and Performance: Inherent Risk

My recent, unforgettable and inspiring five-month journey into Africa led me to both the voodoo festival in Benin and the incredible Nigerian metropolis of Lagos. There, I could ..

Nathaniel Mackey | Part Two of the American Classics Series at the American Academy in Rome

The 2016 academic year at the American Academy in Rome is characterized by a series of events called ‘American Classics.’ What does it mean to be American in the 21st Century? Wh..

The London Film Festival strikes out with Black Star Symposium

The 60th edition of the BFI London Film Festival is almost here. This edition will make history because – if my memory serves me correctly – no film festival has ever taken such ..

Anna Deavere Smith brings her Documentary Theater style to Rome

On March 3, 1991, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department stopped motorist Rodney King for a traffic violation. What happened after he came out of his car it’s probably t..