- Today is Freedom Day’ – and many business leaders are deciding how to manager a return to the office in a way that best suits their employees, customers and company objectives.
- Tina Ramos Ekongo is the latest creative practitioner to join forces with arts charity Culture Warrington and take up a residency in the Palmyra Square venue.
- Black creators on TikTok are refusing to choregraph new dances and calling out what they see as a new form of cultural appropriation on the app..
- The deadline for applying for post-Brexit residency passes at midnight, with claims of a backlog of 400,00.
- Julie Adenuga is planning to launch a new UK festival with a greater female presence on its bill.
- Organisations forced the research studies to be released on Friday
- Star’s Do Black Lives Still Matter? BBC documentary finds black people are still denied opportunities.
- Proposed changes to policing, surveillance and judicial review will jeopardise right to peaceful protest, says special rapporteur.
- Dua Lipa’s record-breaking livestream in December sold over a quarter a million tickets, a sign of things to come.
- Sony Music’s The Orchard has inked a strategic partnership with Mass Appeal Records, one of the best known independent labels in hip-hop.
- Through tears George Floyd’s girlfriend Courteney Ross told me that he wouldn’t believe ”all this” – everything that has happened as a consequence of his death.
- Stephen Black on why the police complaints system needs to change fundamentally and Ruth Baker on how a video by a 17 year-old was crucial to the case.
- There are big questions and debates opening up about the future of the Black Lives Natter (BLM) movement after the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.
- Politicians who criticised the BLM protests also welcomed the verdict. But there wouldn’t have been one without the other.
- A man reacts outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 20, after former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty in the death of George Floyd.
- The son of immigrants, he grew up on the Aylesbury estate in south London, the often-vilified place that Tony Blair visited on the morning after his first election as prime minister, as the exemplar of the kind of blighted Britain that he was going to fix, But Ogunmuyiwa, inspired by seeing Richard Roger’s Lloyd’s building across the river from his school, knew that he wanted to be an architect. Which, as the founder of the practise Architecture Doing Place, he now is.
- The murder of George Floyd by a police officer last year, as with the death of my brother and countless other deaths of young black people, forced many to face the stark realities of racism and showed us just how much work remains to be done.
- Nearly 30 years since Stephen’s murder, the British police continues to be heavily criticised for its disproportionate use of power.
- Stephen Lawrence Day is a good opportunity to consider the importance of the Mcpherson inquiry. Twenty-Eight years after Stephen died, it is also a good time to contemplate where British society goes from here in the fight for racial justice.
- In my small – Four young people explain how they are making more sustainable choices for the environment.
- Collectible DRY spoke with Gloria Jane Royer and Shannen Maria Samuel, the sustainable designers behind Brick Lane Market’s fashion activism platform, to discover the vision leading the project and find out more about their practice.
- In this conversation with Jasmin Hernandez, the mind behind Artsy’s online show ”Dress Codes: Black and Brown Woman Artists Fashioning Identity,” the writer explains how style serves as a tool for the empowerment of BIPOC excellence.
- A team of Milan-based creatives has united to tell the inspiring stories of numerous Italians of African descent and highlight their contribution to the future of the country
- Mwazulu Diyabanza has been fined and jailed for entering museums and forcibly removing ‘pillaged’ African artefacts. He tells our writer why the British Museum is now in his sights
- Thanks to new shows on Kiss and 1Xtra, the presence of Black women on air feels less sporadic and more an intra-diverse broadcasting space.
- The U.K’s three biggest record label heads put on a united front at a parliamentary probe into the streaming business on Tuesday (Jan. 19), denying artist claims that music streaming pay outs are unfairly weighted in labels’ favour.
- Launching today (1 February), the eight-part podcast aims to provide young people with a toolkit to confidently navigate their relationship with money and finances.
- ”Black Culture, contributions, and consciousness – they are the past, the present and the future.” So ends the foreword of Timeless From Black History, newly released in the U.S. and written by author and editor Mireille Harper, and so begins an extraordinary celebration of Black history in the pages that follow. At the dawn of […]