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Dizzee Rascal: UK grime's royalty reclaims throne in New York

Edit The Guardian 07 May 2016
From the striking urban story on Brand New Day (“there’s a lot of hostility in my ends”) to the deft move between anger and stoicism on ‘Do it!” (“feds don’t understand us, adults don’t understand us, no one understands us”), Dizzee’s verse reminds a listener just how powerful it felt to hear his uncompromising insight into black British identity....

The lives of others: 150 years of London’s blue plaques

Edit The Guardian 07 May 2016
This was where they conceived and created some of their greatest pictures, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I’m Going and Black Narcissus ... Still, she travelled widely, not least to the Crimea to nurse British soldiers during the war. She was also the first black British woman to write and publish her own life story in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands....

Whose Story Is a Story to Tell?

Edit Huffington Post 06 May 2016
'[W]hat are the rules of telling someone else's story when they come from a world so very different from our own?' This is the tagline for Stowaway, the play I saw at HOME, Manchester, last night (Thursday 6th May). Stowaway is the story of an Indian man who gets trapped in a labour camp in Dubai ... the list goes on ... Third, as a first generation black-British resident, I could write from the perspective of an outsider too....

How I saw 12 Shakespeare plays in seven days

Edit New Statesman 06 May 2016
Paapa Essiedu, the young black British actor who takes the title role in an almost entirely non-white cast, reaches doubled-over, howling levels of distress, redolent of Greek tragedy, during the appearance of his father’s ghost and the self-lacerating soliloquies ... A cast of French and English actors plays British and French soldiers, all patients at a field hospital in 1915, who decide, perhaps undiplomatically, to put on Henry V....

Emile Ford obituary

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2016
Singer who topped the charts with What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?. The UK’s first No 1 hit of the 1960s was What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? by Emile Ford and the Checkmates. Ford, who has died aged 78, was the first black British male singer to top the charts, and went on to a career as an acoustics engineer. He was born in Castries, St Lucia, into one of the island’s leading families ... ....

Michaela Coel: ‘People think I am fearless’

Edit The Guardian 01 May 2016
More recently, Tituss Burgess in Tina Fey’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt [a big black flamboyant wannabe Broadway star] inspired the character in the second series of my TV show Chewing Gum ... It was the only place to see black people on TV ... My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV ... Even now there’s nothing mainstream on TV that shows the average black British life....

Naked contortions, empty exhibitions and Lego's mistake – the week in art

Edit The Guardian 29 Apr 2016
Polly Penrose poses awkwardly for women everywhere, as Mona Hatoum arrives at Tate and Maria Eichhorn closes the Chisenhale – all in your weekly art dispatch. Exhibition of the Week. Mona Hatoum ... • Tate Britain, London, 4 May until 21 August. Also showing. To Be Human ... Graham Fagen ... Alberto Giacometti ... Perhaps every British landmark would be improved by a slide ... The National Portrait Gallery is putting early black British life in the frame ... ....

Literary guide

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 29 Apr 2016
Literary guide Daniel Handler In conversation with Malcolm Clemens Young. 9.30 a.m. Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St., S.F. www.booksinc.net. Ingrid Fiksdahl King “What Can I Be?” 4 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley. 1 p.m ... (415) 282-4712 ... 3 p.m ... Black British Writers Readings by Bernardine Evaristo, Colin Grant, Diran Adebayo, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Jay Bernard, Johny Pitts, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Nick Makoha, Roger Robinson ... M ... ....

Portraits of black British life before Windrush in frame for new show

Edit The Guardian 28 Apr 2016
Other identified sitters include Peter Jackson, the champion boxer billed as the “Black Prince”; composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Dadabhai Naoroji, who beceame the first British Indian MP when he was elected for Finsbury in 1892; and Ndugu M’Hali, known as Kalulu, given as a slave but freed and treated as an adopted son by the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley ... • Black Chronicles....

Marvel defends 'whitewashed' casting of Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange

Edit The Guardian 27 Apr 2016
Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video. Please install Adobe Flash™ and try again. Alternatively upgrade to a modern browser. @BenChildGeek ... In 2010, Marvel cast the black British actor Idris Elba as the Norse deity Heimdall in Kenneth Branagh’s Thor. The studio also shifted the character of Nick Fury from white to black on the big screen to accommodate Samuel L Jackson, with some versions of the comics later following suit. ....

'What Is England?' Asked St. George

Edit Huffington Post 27 Apr 2016
It's one of those amusing quirks of history that we have a national patron saint who never visited England, would not have spoken the language of these isles at that time and probably could not even name this little island - which was not to be known as England until another 500 years after his death ... often on forms there is an option for 'Black British' but there is rarely an option for 'Black English'....

Ten tips for future creative leaders

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
as of 2014 only 13% of women occupied creative director roles ... Perfect your craft ... Harriet Vine, who co-founded British jewellery Tatty Devine with Rosie Wolfenden, who both recently received MBE’s for their Services to the Fashion Industry, shared some fantastic advice for creative entrepreneurs ... Melanie Eusebe, a board member of the Creative Industries Federation and founder of The Black British Business Awards reiterats this ... ....

Idris Elba to star in Sky's 1970s political drama Guerrilla

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
Luther star will also be an executive producer on show written by 12 Years a Slave’s John Ridley. @johnplunkett149 ... Elba said ... TV is in for a treat.” ... Their target becomes the “black power desk”, a true life counterintelligence unit within Special Branch ... Guerrilla presents characters you will fall in love with but also a world and a part of black British history that is rarely tackled in such a bold and compelling manner.”. ....
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