Race

Origin review – a genuine, often unsettling cinema outlier
Film

Origin review – a genuine, often unsettling cinema outlier

Bringing the story of Isabel Wilkerson, the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, to the big screen

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

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

‘How is this not taught in school?’ DuVernay’s remarkable new film shows how inequality is reproduced and entrenched around the world

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

Labour plans to extend full equal pay rights to ethnic minority workers and disabled people with its new Race Equality Act

‘An urgent wake-up call’: Half of disabled people are struggling to pay their 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
Film

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

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

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

‘Activism and organising is kinda sexy!’: Colman Domingo on Rustin, Oscar buzz and the Obamas
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
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’
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’
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’
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
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’
Letter To My Younger Self

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

Gina Yashere: For UK Black comics it’s a nightclub policy – ‘one in, one out’
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
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’
Letter To My Younger Self

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

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

David Harewood: UK off-shored our racism and brutality

Forgotten African heroes of the Second World War
first person

Forgotten African heroes of the Second World War

Jon Snow: ‘It was wonderful to talk to Nelson Mandela’
Letter to my Younger Self

Jon Snow: ‘It was wonderful to talk to Nelson Mandela’

In The Strays, horror confronts code-switching, class and the Black British experience
Horror

In The Strays, horror confronts code-switching, class and the Black British experience

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Karla-Simone Spence: The Confessions of Frannie Langton ‘is as dark as it can get’
tv interview

Karla-Simone Spence: The Confessions of Frannie Langton ‘is as dark as it can get’

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence explain the ‘gross injustice’ of new film The Silent Twins
The Silent Twins

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence explain the ‘gross injustice’ of new film The Silent Twins

Doreen Lawrence: ‘I put my pain to the back of my mind when Stephen died’
Letter to my younger self

Doreen Lawrence: ‘I put my pain to the back of my mind when Stephen died’

Identitti review: A highly original take on the perils of idolising your heroes
review

Identitti review: A highly original take on the perils of idolising your heroes