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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Jon Bernthal in Ava DuVernay's film Origin
Interview

Ava DuVernay on Origin: 'I want it to be the kind of film you think about after you've left the theatre'

Labour's equal pay plan for ethnic minorities welcome – but campaigners warn it's no cure-all
Equal pay

Labour's equal pay plan for ethnic minorities welcome – but campaigners warn it's no cure-all

'An urgent wake-up call': Half of disabled people are struggling to pay their energy bills
disabled person struggling with energy bills
Cost of living crisis

'An urgent wake-up call': Half of disabled people are struggling to pay their energy bills

American Fiction review – a satirical take on novel writing with Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright and Erika Alexander in American Fiction
Film

American Fiction review – a satirical take on novel writing with Jeffrey Wright

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Books

Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature review – natural highs from our natural world

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Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin in Netflix film Rustin
Film

'Activism and organising is kinda sexy!': Colman Domingo on Rustin, Oscar buzz and the Obamas

How The Specials and 2 Tone empowered a generation to believe in a multicultural future
2 Tone stars The Specials on stage in a black and white photo
Music

How The Specials and 2 Tone empowered a generation to believe in a multicultural future

Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: 'By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times'
Jazzie B from Soul II Soul
Race

Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: 'By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times'

Beverley Knight: 'My young black skin was politicised the day I was born'
Beverley Knight, UK soul singer
Letter to my Younger Self

Beverley Knight: 'My young black skin was politicised the day I was born'

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: 'Black Lives Matter transformed the world'
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah looks into the camera with his hands on his face
Interview

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: 'Black Lives Matter transformed the world'

Children of Windrush: Mica Paris, Jay Blades, Lenny Henry and more reflect on heritage and identity
Children of Windrush
Letter to my younger self

Children of Windrush: Mica Paris, Jay Blades, Lenny Henry and more reflect on heritage and identity

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'It should not be a novelty that there's more than one Black face on stage'
Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE.
Letter To My Younger Self

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'It should not be a novelty that there's more than one Black face on stage'

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends'
Chi-chi Nwanoku
Music

Chi-chi Nwanoku: 'I was not interested in just playing music by our dead white friends'

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it's a nightclub policy – 'one in, one out'
Gina Yashere
racism

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it's a nightclub policy – 'one in, one out'

I couldn't find a book with a Black British romantic heroine, so I wrote one
Frances Mensah Williams illustration in green and gold
Black British fiction

I couldn't find a book with a Black British romantic heroine, so I wrote one

Linton Kwesi Johnson: 'It wasn’t easy for the Windrush generation'
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Letter To My Younger Self

Linton Kwesi Johnson: 'It wasn’t easy for the Windrush generation'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
David Harewood: 'I would tell my younger self to get prepared. Because life is tough, isn’t it?'
David Harewood
drama

David Harewood: 'I would tell my younger self to get prepared. Because life is tough, isn’t it?'

David Harewood: UK off-shored our racism and brutality
David Harewood in his new BBC2 documentary, Get On Up
race

David Harewood: UK off-shored our racism and brutality

Forgotten African heroes of the Second World War
Illustration of a soldier
first person

Forgotten African heroes of the Second World War

Jon Snow: 'It was wonderful to talk to Nelson Mandela'
Jon Snow at Grenfell Tower
Letter to my Younger Self

Jon Snow: 'It was wonderful to talk to Nelson Mandela'

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