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Black British culture

April 2025

  • Jason Okundaye

    A ‘Black Snape’ in the new Harry Potter seems designed to cause controversy – but it could work

    Jason Okundaye
  • A map of the UK and Northern Ireland on a backdrop of key moments in Black British cultural history

    The Long Wave
    Five things you didn’t know about Black British cultural history

  • Monochrome photograph of two young men, one black and one white, dancing

    We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – reimagining Black Britain

  • LJ Johnson (Emily) and Naomi Denny (Sienna) in All the Happy Things.

    All the Happy Things review – an unbreakable sisterly bond in tender three-hander

  • The Long Wave
    Will pan-African air travel ever truly take off?

  • We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – the forgotten voices of black Britain

  • ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

  • Other lives
    John Richards obituary

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘We feel the pain but there is also joy’: the healing power of diasporic connection

March 2025

  • Diane Watt

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Manchester’s radical Black female activists: ‘We didn’t define ourselves as feminists’

  • Audience members at the 2022 Black British book festival.

    UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say

  • Children in uniform raise their fists

    The Long Wave
    ‘There was no place for me in American society’: an ex-Black Panther cub speaks out

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    Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars: why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London

  • ‘The drill scene was dead. They’d locked everyone up’: RIP Germain on his shocking coffin installation

  • New play about impact of dementia on Black Britons can start ‘conversation’

  • The Long Wave
    The Long Wave: From aseeda to Vimto, Ramadan traditions across the diaspora

  • UK reggae pioneers Steel Pulse: ‘We told punk fans – you can pogo, but please don’t spit at us’

February 2025

  • Tom Molineaux, Hezekiah Moscow, James Wharton, Bill Richmond and Len Johnson

    From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars

    A Thousand Blows, the knockout new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, puts Victorian-era boxer Hezekiah Moscow in the spotlight. But it doesn’t even begin to do justice to the astonishing real-life history
  • Moscow and Kirby stand in similar boxing poses

    The Long Wave
    The Long Wave: How A Thousand Blows recovers the lost history of a lion-taming West Indian boxer

    Historian David Olusoga sheds light on Hezekiah Moscow, a mysterious migrant seeking a better life in Victorian London. Plus, my suya obsession
  • Eddie Kadi, press, publicity photo

    Comedy Q&A
    Eddie Kadi: ‘People think I’m always ready to crack jokes. If you’re a doctor, I don’t ask you to operate on me!’

    The standup and presenter on preshow prayers, blending dance with comedy and the night he bombed at the BBC
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