From beauty pageants to burned-down pubs, Neil Kenlock spent decades capturing the struggles – and victories – of black Britain. Here he relives ‘some of the best years of my life’
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With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee Sounds the Alarm About America’s Past and Present | The Atlantic
The director’s newest film follows a policeman who successfully infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s, but the story it tells is also very much about the U.S. today.
View MoreUS healthcare prices set to skyrocket after ‘Obamacare’ scrapped | Al Jazeera
Many will have to pay a lot more for insurance after Trump got rid of subsidies provided by the Affordable Care Act.
View More‘I felt I was not a good mom’: Serena Williams details post-partum struggles | The Guardian
Serena Williams has said concerns over motherhood have affected her recent form.
View MoreThere’s Nothing Wrong With Black English | The Atlantic
Accepting it as an alternative form of the language, and not a degraded one, requires being open to artists employing it in their work, even if they didn’t grow up speaking it.
View MoreThe pioneering prints of Dox Thrash | CBS New
Dox Thrash revolutionized printmaking in the 1930s.
View MoreA black fire chief faces hatred online before his first day on the job | The Washington Post
The enemy is hiding in plain sight, and digital pseudonyms are their new hoods.
View More“Ouvrir la Voix”: A Radically Frank Documentary About the Experience of Black Women in France | The New Yorker
“The word ‘race’ has to be spoken, because it exists, it’s materialized in our lives, in our bodies, in our perceptions of our bodies, in our relations with people, so I think it’s hypocrisy to ban it from the Constitution . . . Race is truly a reality.”
View MoreKwaku Anansi: The only folklore character to travel out of Africa and become a global symbol of resistance | Face2Face Africa
KOLUMN Magazine celebrates the lives of People of Color by giving our world texture.The West African folktale character is a spider with human characteristics from the Akan culture of West Africa.
View MoreWatch the Emotional First Trailer for Barry Jenkins’s New Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ | Vice
The ‘Moonlight’ director is making his return to the big screen with an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel.
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