#blackbritishculture — Public Fediverse posts

Add to playlist: the gloriously boisterous grime-metal of Native James and the week’s best new tracks https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/23/add-to-playlist-native-james-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks #Music #Culture #Rap #Metal #Grime #PopAndRock #Hiphop #BlackBritishCulture

Add to playlist: the gloriously boisterous grime-metal of Native James and the week’s best new tracks
By Olive Pometsey

Filtering alt influences and eskibeats through a distinctly Black British point of view, the Ipswich rapper’s scorched-earth rage sounds like a lot of fun

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/23/add-to-playlist-native-james-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks

#Music #Culture #Rap #Metal #Grime #Popandrock #Hiphop #BlackBritishculture #TheGuardian #OlivePometsey

Ilford Boy review – Barbra Streisand teaches teen to smile about the way we are
By Kate Wyver

Donmar Warehouse, LondonIn Danny Lee Wynter’s drama, a quiet boy struggles amid the swirl of his family until a mercurial friend offers him another future

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/21/ilford-boy-review-donmar-warehouse-london

#Theatre #Stage #Culture #DonmarWarehouse #Essex #WestEnd #BlackBritishculture #TheGuardian #KateWyver

I went to a Jamaican Patois class. Why was I so scared to speak it?
By Micha Frazer-Carroll

Centuries of historical baggage surrounds this form of speech. But I’m vowing to overcome shame and connect with this part of my culture

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oct/14/jamaican-patois-class-creole-languages

#Lifeandstyle #Culture #Caribbean #Language #BlackBritishculture #Worldnews #TheGuardian #MichaFrazerCarroll

Barriers facing black and south Asian music events ‘cost London up to £141m a year’
By Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent

Exclusive: Investigation finds racial inequality in live music industry rife and many genres labelled ‘high risk’ despite lack of evidence

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/14/barriers-black-south-asian-music-events-london-racial-inequality

#Music #Musicindustry #Race #UKnews #BlackBritishculture #Culture #London #Police #Metropolitanpolice #Clubbing #Business #TheGuardian #AamnaMohdinCommunityaffairscorrespondent

Barriers facing black and south Asian music events ‘cost London up to £141m a year’ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/14/barriers-black-south-asian-music-events-london-racial-inequality #Music #MusicIndustry #Race #UkNews #BlackBritishCulture #Culture #London #Police #MetropolitanPolice #Clubbing #Business

50 years on from Arts Britain Ignores: how much has changed for black and Asian artists?
By Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

Conference to explore legacy of Naseem Khan’s seminal 1976 report on the exclusion of minority ethnic artists

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/13/arts-britain-ignores-50-years-on-black-asian-artists-naseem-khan

#Artanddesign #BlackBritishculture #ArtsCouncilEngland #DawnAirey #Culture #Britishidentityandsociety #Leicester #UKnews #Art #Artsfunding #Artspolicy #Society #TheGuardian #ChrisOsuhCommunityaffairscorrespondent

50 years on from Arts Britain Ignores: how much has changed for black and Asian artists? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/13/arts-britain-ignores-50-years-on-black-asian-artists-naseem-khan #ArtAndDesign #BlackBritishCulture #ArtsCouncilEngland #DawnAirey #Culture #BritishIdentityAndSociety #Leicester #UkNews #Art #ArtsFunding #ArtsPolicy #Society

‘Green, red, yellow, blue’? Beneath the surface, diaspora language is anything but Black and white
By Nesrine Malik

Black communities across the globe have large and complex vocabularies to describe race, shaped by their specific cultures and histories

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oct/07/diaspora-language-black-communities-vocabulary-culture-history

#Lifeandstyle #Culture #Africa #Caribbean #Americas #BlackBritishculture #Beauty #Colonialism #Worldnews #TheGuardian #NesrineMalik

Pierre review – David Harewood’s twisty noir is an instant crime classic
By Ellen E Jones

Harewood has always had star power to burn – and he well and truly ignites this bold, sharp show about working in the police as a person of colour. What a brilliant milestone for Black British cop drama

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/05/pierre-review-channel-4-david-harewood-british-crime-drama

#Television #Televisionradio #Culture #DavidHarewood #TVcrimedrama #BlackBritishculture #Drama #Police #TheGuardian #EllenEJones

Children’s books with Black main characters down 8% in a year, study shows
By Emma Loffhagen

Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodivergent characters

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/05/childrens-books-with-black-main-characters-down-study-uk

#Childrenandteenagers #Publishing #Race #Books #Culture #BlackBritishculture #Education #UKnews #TheGuardian #EmmaLoffhagen

Children’s books with Black main characters down 8% in a year, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/05/childrens-books-with-black-main-characters-down-study-uk #ChildrenAndTeenagers #Publishing #Race #Books #Culture #BlackBritishCulture #Education #UkNews

Edward Colston’s remains likely to stay at Bristol church that could become community space
By Steven Morris

Exclusive: Slave trader is interred at All Saints, which may be given a change of use after being closed for years

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/21/edward-colston-remains-likely-stay-bristol-church-community-space

#Bristol #Slavery #Anglicanism #Heritage #BlackBritishculture #UKnews #England #TheGuardian #StevenMorris

Edward Colston’s remains likely to stay at Bristol church that could become community space https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/21/edward-colston-remains-likely-stay-bristol-church-community-space #Bristol #Slavery #Anglicanism #Heritage #BlackBritishCulture #UkNews #England

The play that changed my life: ‘Grime was ostracised but the Royal Court saw it as an art form – and made me a better MC’
By Jammz

Poet in da Corner by Debris Stevenson revealed that acting in a theatre can have a lot in common with MCing in a club

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/16/the-play-that-changed-my-life-poet-in-da-corner-grime-jammz-debris-stevenson

#Stage #Culture #RoyalCourttheatre #Theatre #Grime #Music #Hiphop #Acting #BlackBritishculture #TheGuardian #Jammz

Even better than the Real Thing? The overlooked Black music scene of 1970s Liverpool
By Claudia Efemini

Despite the city’s backdrop of deprivation and racism, vibrant nightclubs and daring artists thrived – but after No 1 success for the Real Thing, why was the scene ignored?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/09/even-better-than-the-real-thing-the-overlooked-black-music-scene-of-1970s-liverpool

#Music #RB #Popandrock #Culture #Liverpool #Race #BlackBritishculture #Soul #TheGuardian #ClaudiaEfemini

‘On the other side of pain there can be renewal’: Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso on reasons to hold on to hope
By Femi Koleoso

The bandleader, drummer, DJ and broadcaster is guest-editing this week’s Saturday magazine Culture features. In his editor’s letter, he shares why he’s optimistic for the future. Plus: his bandmates offer their cultural picks

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/06/femi-koleoso-ezra-collective-guest-editor-cultural-picks

#EzraCollective #BlackBritishculture #Culture #Music #TheGuardian #FemiKoleoso

Happy 60th anniversary, Notting Hill carnival – a symbol of all that London can be | Sadiq Khan
By Sadiq Khan

Its founders understood the power of culture to challenge racism, build understanding and turn strangers into neighbours. We need that now as much as ever

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/01/60th-anniversary-notting-hill-carnival-london-sadiq-khan

#NottingHillcarnival #BlackBritishculture #Culture #Festivals #London #UKnews #TheGuardian #SadiqKhan

Happy 60th anniversary, Notting Hill carnival – a symbol of all that London can be | Sadiq Khan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/01/60th-anniversary-notting-hill-carnival-london-sadiq-khan #NottingHillCarnival #BlackBritishCulture #Culture #Festivals #London #UkNews

From ‘old people music’ to owning the streets: 60 years of Notting Hill carnival and me
By Lloyd Bradley

As a child, being taken to the Caribbean celebration was a drag. But once sound systems arrived in the 1970s, it became an unmissable yearly pilgrimage offering a sense of freedom

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/25/from-old-people-music-to-owning-the-streets-60-years-of-notting-hill-carnival-and-me

#NottingHillcarnival #Socialhistory #BlackBritishculture #Reggae #Soul #London #Culture #Race #Music #Festivals #Society #TheGuardian #LloydBradley

‘It’s rare to hear: I’m black and middle class’ – Symeon Brown on black Britain’s enduring ‘taboo’
By Emma Loffhagen

Black people are more prominent than ever in the UK’s politics and culture. But are they overwhelmingly from the middle class, as Brown argues in his new book? And if so, why isn’t anyone talking about it?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/09/symeon-brown-black-britain-middle-class-good-black-boujee

#Society #Race #Classissues #BlackBritishculture #Socialmobility #TheGuardian #EmmaLoffhagen

The Art of Opposition by Courttia Newland review – piercing essays on culture and creativity
By Diana Evans

The novelist issues a inspiring call for artists to exercise their autonomy in a world of gatekeepers

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/14/the-art-of-opposition-by-courttia-newland-review-piercing-essays-on-culture-and-creativity

#Essays #Books #BlackBritishculture #Culture #TheGuardian #DianaEvans

Celebrating the African diaspora: the photography of Armet Francis https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jul/08/celebrating-the-african-diaspora-the-photography-of-armet-francis #Photography #ArtAndDesign #Culture #London #BlackBritishCulture

When I claim my black Britishness in this age of intolerance, here is the music that goes with it | Hugh Muir https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/06/black-british-intolerance-music-v-and-a-east #BlackBritishCulture #Va #Music #Culture #Museums #London #ArtAndDesign #UkNews

Kanya King, founder of Mobo awards for Black British music, dies aged 57 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/05/kanya-king-founder-of-mobo-awards-for-black-british-music-dies-aged-57 #Mobos #Music #PopAndRock #Culture #Rb #Rap #Hiphop #Grime #Jazz #UkNews #BlackBritishCulture

Story of Black British music writ large in first exhibition at V&A East https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/18/v-and-a-east-first-exhibition-black-british-music #Exhibitions #Va #Museums #ArtAndDesign #BlackBritishCulture #Music #Culture #London #England #UkNews

Is calling a woman ‘auntie’ ageist harassment – or a mark of respect? It’s a trickier question than you think | Lola Okolosie https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/woman-auntie-ageist-harassment-tribunal-cultural-identity-western-attitudes #BlackBritishCulture #Race #Africa #Culture #Caribbean #UkNews #Nhs #Society

Olivia Dean leads the way with three wins at 2026 Mobo awards https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/26/olivia-dean-wins-mobo-awards-raye-central-cee-ezra-collective #Mobos #OliviaDean #AwardsAndPrizes #Culture #Music #BlackBritishCulture #UkNews

Black music has been the driving force in Britain’s music industry and culture. It’s time we treated it that way | Kanya King https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/26/black-music-britain-music-industry-culture-mobo-awards #BlackBritishCulture #Music #Culture #Mobos #Sade #Stormzy #LittleSimz #OliviaDean #Skepta #CentralCee

Labour in ‘deep trouble’ with Black voters, Operation Black Vote chair warns https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/09/labour-in-deep-trouble-with-black-voters-operation-black-vote-chair-warns #Labour #BlackBritishCulture #Race #Politics #UkNews

The hill I will die on: That stone-cold classic you love isn’t a party starter – it’s a party destroyer | Nels Abbey https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/31/the-hill-i-will-die-on-cameo-candy-party-destroyer #Music #BlackBritishCulture #Culture #Dance #Weddings #LifeAndStyle

What to read in 2026: recommendations from booksellers and publishers in Abuja, Nairobi and Brighton https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/23/what-to-read-2026-booksellers-book-recommendations-abuja-nairobi-brighton #BlackBritishculture #Worldnews #Culture #Nigeria #Africa #Books #Kenya

How to use the holidays to stop our ‘WhatsApp aunties’ falling for AI https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/17/how-to-use-the-holidays-to-stop-our-whatsapp-aunties-from-becoming-ai-aunties #Artificialintelligence(AI) #BlackBritishculture #Technology #Caribbean #Culture #Africa

Melanie and Janet behind the beauty store counter: Victor Wedderburn’s best photograph https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/05/melanie-janet-beauty-store-counter-victor-wedderburns-best-photograph #BlackBritishculture #Artanddesign #Photography #Bradford #Culture

Cotton Capital bonus episode: Searching for the spirit of pan-Africanism – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/oct/31/searching-for-the-spirit-of-pan-africanism-podcast-bonus-episode #BlackBritishculture #GreaterManchester #Manchester #Worldnews #Caribbean #Slavery #Culture #Africa #UKnews #Race

‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London.

Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media…

Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251016-the-jobless-should-lead-the-attack-a-radical-jamaican-journalist-in-1920s-london?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#ClaudeMcKay #Books #Culture #Race #UK #London #Poetry #BlackBritishCulture #EmmelinePankhurst #History #Longread

BBC reporters cannot wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts in newsroom, says Tim Davie https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/20/bbc-reporters-black-lives-matter-t-shirts-newsroom-tim-davie #Cheltenhamliteraturefestival #BlackLivesMattermovement #Campaigningjournalism #BlackBritishculture #Television&radio #ThenewsonTV #USpolitics #Television #Worldnews #TimDavie #Culture #USnews #TVnews #Media #Books #Race #BBC

‘We don’t celebrate Black creativity enough’: why the Black British book festival is bigger than ever

Ahead of the BBBF this weekend, authors who’ll be in attendance explain the crisis in publishing of Black writing, and why coming together is the solution On Sunday morning, the Barbican’s vast concrete…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/18/fifth-black-british-book-festival-barbican-london

#Books #BlackBritishculture #Literaryfestivals #Publishing #Culture

‘We thought we were being naughty!’ The thrilling show by Black and Asian women that rocked the art world https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/24/connecting-thin-black-lines-black-and-asian-women-art-world-lubaina-himid #Britishidentityandsociety #BlackBritishculture #Artanddesign #Exhibitions #Painting #Culture #Society #Art #ICA

Parties and proclamations: Juneteenth across the diaspora https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/18/parties-and-proclamations-juneteenth-across-the-diaspora #BlackBritishculture #Sean‘Diddy‘Combs #Windrushscandal #Climatecrisis #Environment #Worldnews #Caribbean #Nigeria #Culture #USnews #Africa #UKnews #Music

Parties and proclamations: Juneteenth across the diaspora https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/18/parties-and-proclamations-juneteenth-across-the-diaspora #BlackBritishculture #Sean‘Diddy‘Combs #Windrushscandal #Climatecrisis #Environment #Worldnews #Caribbean #Nigeria #Culture #USnews #Africa #UKnews #Music

How I unlearned the internalised prejudice I had as a Black woman – one braid at a time https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/jun/18/how-i-unlearned-the-internalised-prejudice-i-had-as-a-black-woman-one-braid-at-a-time #BlackBritishculture #Lifeandstyle #Women'shair #Fashion #Culture #Beauty

‘Ahead of his time’: Guyanese artist gets London show amid reappraisal https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/19/aubrey-williams-guyanese-artist-london-show #BlackBritishculture #Climatecrisis #Artanddesign #Colonialism #Culture #London #UKnews #Art

The best of the Contemporary African Art Fair 2025 – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/may/08/contemporary-african-art-fair #BlackBritishculture #BlackUSculture #Artanddesign #Photography #Worldnews #NewYork #Morocco #Culture #Africa #London #USnews #UKnews #Design #Europe #Art

‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/29/as-a-film-lover-i-want-more-the-black-female-directors-take-centre-stage #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo #BlackBritishculture #Filmindustry #Lifeandstyle #Caribbean #Worldnews #Americas #Business #Beyoncé #Culture #Nigeria #MetGala #Fashion #Africa #USnews #Music #Books #Film

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

Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’ UK publishing is less accessible to Black authors now…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/26/uk-publishing-less-accessible-to-black-authors-now-than-before-2020-industry-names-say

#Books #Culture #BlackBritishculture #Festivals #Publishing
@indieauthors

From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/26/from-racist-bans-to-lion-tamer-fighters-the-wild-history-of-britains-unsung-black-boxing-superstars #BlackBritishculture #Television&radio #PeakyBlinders #Culture #Boxing #Sport

‘I remember the exhilaration of the crowd and chanting’: artist Steve McQueen on his experience of resistance and protest https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/feb/02/steve-mcqueen-resistance-turner-contemporary #BlackBritishculture #SteveMcQueen #Education #Children #Culture #Society

The science of racism, and how to fight it – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2025/jan/23/the-science-of-racism-and-how-to-fight-it-podcast #BlackBritishculture #Psychology #Worldnews #Science #Culture #UKnews #Race

‘I don’t want it to be like Marvel’: the Netflix superhero drama swapping spandex for south London https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/25/i-dont-want-it-to-be-like-marvel-the-netflix-superhero-drama-swapping-spandex-for-south-london #BlackBritishculture #Television&radio #Television #Culture

‘We answer to nobody’: duo Bob Vylan on humility, hell-raising – and punk hypocrisy https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/05/we-answer-to-nobody-duo-bob-vylan-on-humility-hell-raising-and-punk-hypocrisy #BlackBritishculture #Hip-hop #Culture #Music #Grime #Punk