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Adebunmi Gbadebo is a visual artist who creates sculptures, paintings, prints, and paper using human hair sourced from people of the African diaspora. Rejecting traditional art materials, Gbadebo saw hair as a means to center her people and their histories as central to the narratives in her work.

‘Tirailleurs’ examines the oft neglected story of Colonial soldiers forced to take up somebody else’s fight.

African Queens

The Untold Story of Joseph Bologne, the Prodigy known as “Black Mozart”

‘Why We Still Love Zora’: Irma McClaurin on PBS Documentary ‘Claiming a Space’ and Zora Neale Hurston’s Legacy

The Secret of Selling the Negro Market is a 1954 film financed by Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Ebony magazine, to encourage advertisers to promote their products and services in the African-American media.

‘My only sin is the colour of my skin’. Louis Armstrong.

The Cave of Adullam was originally a stronghold referred to in the Old Testament, near the town of Adullam, where future King David sought refuge from King Saul.

Nina Hibbin, writing about the film on its initial UK release in the Daily Worker, commented: “You can’t fight the colour bar merely by telling people it exists. You have to attack it, with passion and conviction. Commit yourself up to the hilt. Otherwise you’re in danger of fanning the flames.”

How Argentina Erased Its Black People from History.

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To Jamie Stewart, who died while in police custody, London 1989

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