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UK Vogue turns profound for September, but is it just playing strategically?
With the brand-new Vogue cover portrait of influential Black activists in the UK in place of the usual pouting stars, Misan Harriman...
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With his ballet, this Nigerian boy hypnotised the world, spreading hope worldwide
“When I am dancing, I feel as if I am on top of the world,” Anthony Mmesoma Madu explained. Elegantly spinning among a group of dancers...
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Meet the largest Black-owned wine company, an American sister duo
Founders of McBride Sisters Wines, Robin and Andréa McBride, are the first African American sister duo to found and establish a wine...
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F1: Leclerc responds to racism accusations on social media
“It is very sad to see how some people manipulate my words to make headlines making me sound like a racist,” Leclerc, 22, said on Twitter...
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Because he was black he changed the UK: how Roy Hackett made segregation to flourish
When he arrived in the UK in 1952, he faced vicious racism – and decided to fight back. In the first of a new series, he tells the story...
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“Godfather of Rap” story: from prioritising truth to African emancipation, to drug addiction
Even though Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949, it was his maternal grandmother, Miss Lily, in Tennessee who raised him and...
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Brazil: high court decided BLM movement to remain head of Black culture
A public official who said he opposes the Black Lives Matter movement will be allowed to remain as head of Brazil’s government-funded...
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Petitions for London’s Tate over racist mural in gallery restaurant
Britain’s Tate museum said it was considering how to address “deeply problematic racist imagery” in a restaurant at one of its London...
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