The late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history last month for biography of Malcolm X. The late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history yesterday, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades but did not live to see published. Read Thomas Powers article in the London Review of [...]
Kanye West has apologised to former US president George W Bush for calling him a racist. And Bush, in turn, has replied, even if he got the rapper’s name wrong. “I appreciate it,” Bush said. “I don’t hate Conway West.” Last week, Bush described West’s 2005 comments as an “all-time [...]
One day last December, Umar Bin Hassan of the Last Poets attended a gathering in Chicago to commemorate local Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, who was shot dead by the police 40 years earlier. There were about 30 people, including the widows of Hampton and fellow Panther Eldridge Cleaver, [...]
Among the multiple influences on his recent work, the artist Harminder Singh Judge lists religious and cultural forces such as Buddha, Norwegian death metal, John the Revelator and Jesus. A British-born Sikh with a taste for religious history and rock music, Judge obviously likes to unite disparate elements just to [...]
One sweltering summer afternoon in August 1976, Jayaben Desai decided she wasn’t going to take it anymore. Desai, who had arrived from India eight years earlier, was working in the dispatch department of the Grunwick film processing plant in Willesden, London. The workforce was predominantly made up of Asian women, [...]
“In Asian culture,” says Akram Khan, “you don’t have a voice. You just accept what everybody says.” It is, I have to say, rather hard to believe now. The darling of the dance world has a reputation for pushing the boundaries of his form, tossing in a visual artist here, [...]
Robin Soans’s play is set in a drama club for young people in Burnley, Lancashire, where the BNP has influence. There are some pretty mixed-up people in the northern towns, where the old industries have disappeared and unemployment would be high even without a recession. There are also plenty of [...]
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