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'Death here and promises of more': On police brutality and the fight we must win

From Where I Stand — This weekend 20-year-old Rashan Charles was killed by police in Hackney. It's hard to swallow the idea that Britain is a 'post-racial' utopia when black bodies meet their end on our streets.

  • Opinion
  • Otamere Guobadia

This film will make you rethink America's race problem

I Am Not Your Negro — Director Raoul Peck spent a decade making a posthumous collaboration with his hero: bringing the urgent ideas of writer and activist James Baldwin back to life. The results are astonishing.

  • Culture
  • Cian Traynor

The new faces of black radical activism in the United Kingdom

No justice, no peace — Discussing an exciting new wave of British black and brown activism with ‘Generation Revolution’ directors, Usayd Younis and Cassie Quarless.

  • Film
  • Alex King

What a stoner rock band can teach us about the state of US politics

Positive cynicism — Chicago band Twin Peaks may be known as party bros who make chill sounds but, off record, they pack some serious political bite about a country in flux.

  • Bernie Sanders
  • Cian Traynor

What it means to document the everyday reality of black America

When living is a protest — Photographer Ruddy Roye tells stories of invisibility – blending despair with signs of hope – while reflecting a little piece of himself in every image.

  • Culture
  • Ruddy Roye

Black Lives Matter activists #shutdown Heathrow Airport in London

We shut shit down — Black Lives Matter campaigners have shut down roads leading down to Heathrow Airport and other city centres in the UK this morning in a day of action.

  • Activism
  • Michael Segalov

Black Lives Matter: Why we #Shutdown Heathrow Airport this morning

We shut shit down — London Heathrow Airport was brought to a standstill this morning, as black lives matter activists blockaded roads by locking themselves together, in London and cities across the UK. Black Lives Matter might sound to you like an American movement, but the we're in a state of crisis in Britain too.

  • Activism
  • Wail Qasim

From Louisiana to London: Black Lives Matter protests are growing

We shut shit down — The streets of Brixton, South London were brought to a standstill yesterday, as hundreds of people shut down a busy London road to say Black Lives Matter.

  • Reportage
  • Michael Segalov // Hubert Libiszewski

Why we'll be serving lemonade in London this evening

When life gives you lemons — For black women, girls and femmes, oppression and discrimination are all around. Tonight in London, they'll be serving up and sharing lemonade. Imani Robinson and Natalie Jeffers reckon they know what to do when life gives you lemons.

  • Activism
  • Imani Robinson and Natalie Jeffers

Five life lessons from artists fighting police brutality

Counteracting the bloodshed — A multimedia collective is using the power of creativity to protest an epidemic of violent deaths in the US.

  • Activism
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