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‘I love humans – it gives me the courage to approach them’: the disarming work of Mao Ishikawa

For five decades the Japanese photographer has captured the internal lives of a host of unlikely subjects, from dockers to Black GIs. Now a new show celebrates an artist dedicated to documenting the …

66 days ago

From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars

A Thousand Blows, the knockout new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, puts Victorian-era boxer Hezekiah Moscow in the spotlight. But it doesn’t even begin to do justice to the astonishi…

4 months ago

Why the Black American origins of mac and cheese are so hotly debated

In an era punctuated with persistent loss, our culinary rituals are a scrumptious bridge

It stood on my kitchen bookshelf, Sylvia’s Family Soul Food Cookbook: From Hemingway, South Carolina, to Harlem…

How Nikki Giovanni’s Black American consciousness changed the world

One of the foremost poets of the Black arts movement died on Monday but continues to inspire her literary children

“We are the culture bearers of planet Earth,” Nikki Giovanni said in 1978 on American…

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