Absent: The Cycle Of A Broken Home Begins an all-important Indiegogo campaign, whilst remembering that girls need fathers too.
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Women Of The Lens Film Digital Broadcast Festival debuts on Friday 10th November at the historic venue Goldsmiths Curzon, London.
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Pioneering Director Menelik Shabazz will screen his rarely seen films; Blood Ah Go Run, Breaking Point and Step Forward Youth at Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton. The presentation will include a Q&A with the director, which explores the historical context of the films, whilst matching them to society’s present challenges concerning youth.
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DJ David Rodigan embraced reggae music since the 1970s and his autobiography is a record of a wealth of history about a globally influential genre. Rodigan: My Life In Reggae reads as a potted history of the musical genre, starting with chapters titled Bob Marley and The Birth of Sound System, on to Toasting, Lovers Rock and Dancehall, to finish with Dubstep and his pathway into new endeavours with the chapter New Roots. These chapters trace Rodigan’s life as it becomes entwined – and is good signposting into the evolution of reggae music in the UK. Rodigan’s passionate embrace...
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Today’s western, racial politics reminds us that we need activists as much as we ever did but it has to develop in order to tread the new terrain. The ground has shifted. James Baldwin, in remembering him in all his entirety adds credibility and most importantly, viability to contemporary activism which includes the full spectrum of blackness.
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In 2007 Toyin Agbetu famously rebuked The Queen and former Prime Minister Tony Blair in Westminster Abbey as they ‘celebrated’ the achievements of William Wilberforce as an abolitionist of the slave trade. On its 10th Anniversary, Agbetu revisits Westminster Abbey on Monday 26th March with a free public event.
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TBB has decided to remind ourselves of the rich context that Black Britons have created with our list of persons, periods and historical landmarks that could feature well is television, documentary or feature format.
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It’s February which means that on the 14th of this month specifically, we must demonstrate to our significant others just how much we love them. TBB decided to forage into UK television to celebrate our favourite British Blacklist TV couples.
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Author of East of Acre Lane, Brenton Brown, The Dirty South, Island Song and of course, what he calls his ‘baby’, Brixton Rock, it’s evident that Alex Wheatle MBE has evolved into a seasoned writer. Fresh from his Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (2016) win with novel Crongton Knights, Wheatle is awash with opportunity and a better appreciation of his standing in the literary world.
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As the British Film Institute embarks upon a broad-reaching programme of celebration of black actors; and as the equally iconic television series Star Trek sees 2016 as its 50th Anniversary, The British Blacklist was deeply fortunate to get a brief meeting in the court of Nichelle Nichols.
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