Category: Arts

  • Zawe Ashton interview: The actress is moving on from Fresh Meat with a starring role in Channel 4’s comedy drama Not Safe for Work The Independent 2015-06-19 Gillian Orr Multi-talented: Ashton likes to do her own thing Immo Klink Acting, directing, writing: Zawe Ashton is a woman on the move. Gillian Orr tries to keep…

  • Skin Deep Meets Stella Corradi Skin Deep: Race + Culture London, England, United Kingdom 2016-07-08 Anuradha Henriques, Editor East London writer and director Stella Corradi talks fantasy, addiction and her short film “Little Soldier” Stella Corradi, East London born and bred, is the writer and director behind the short film Little Soldier. Loosely influenced by…

  • Dido Belle: Britain’s first black aristocrat The Telegraph 2016-07-06 Nisha Lilia Diu Amma Asante’s award-winning film Belle arrives on Netflix today. In this feature, first published in June 2014, Nisha Lilia Diu reveals the true story that inspired it The amazing thing about Dido Elizabeth Belle is not that she was mixed-race. Who knows how…

  • Akala: Dynamite by any other name… The Guardian 2013-06-01 Kate Mossman, Editor and Pop critic New Statesman Akala in Notting Hill last month: ‘In Brixton and Tottenham my sister was worshipped because she was representing a side of intellectual black culture that is never usually acknowledged.’ Photograph: Karen Robinson for the Observer Rapper, adapter of…

  • Leslie Barlow’s mixed-race identity inspires her to paint underrepresented people City Pages Minneapolis, Minnesota 2016-07-18 Erica Rivera There are plenty of portrait painters in Minnesota, but few have captured such a wide range of diverse faces in the tender and beautiful way Leslie Barlow does. The recent MCAD MFA grad focuses on the underrepresented faces…

  • PHOTOS: What It Means to Celebrate Afro-Latinidad in the Time of Black Lives Matter Remezcla 2016-07-12 Isabelia Herrera, Music Editor Photography by: Itzel Alejandra Martinez, Photo Editor Itzel Alejandra Martinez When Remezcla headed to the fourth edition of New York City’s Afro-Latino Festival this weekend, surrounded by colorful dashikis and bold #BlackLivesMatter t-shirts, we were…

  • How Reggie Yates went from kids’ TV to confronting neo-Nazis The Guardian 2016-06-28 Hannah J. Davies Louis Theroux 2.0: Reggie Yates in a cell at Bexar County Detention Center. He braves Russian far-right rallies and Texas prison cells for his job. Meet the man helping to reinvent the documentary for Generation Y While filming in…

  • NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time Sounds and Colours 2016-07-05 Gina Vergel It seems the fourth edition of AfroLatinoFest in New York City comes at a crucial time. A survey by the Pew Research Center, released in March, points to a disconnect in how some Afro-Latinos living in the United States report their…

  • Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law South China Morning Post 2016-07-07 Clare Tyrrell-Morin Having played down her Chinese side while growing up and studying in the UK, Howe, now at Harvard, has turned to it again as she makes an ‘erasure poem’ out of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution We meet…

  • Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom The New Orleans Times-Picayune 2016-07-02 Chelsea Brasted, Lifestyle and Culture Reporter Misty Copeland recounted her own Prince tribute Saturday (July 2) during an Essence Fest weekend full of them. But for the first African American woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet…