Articles — Lanre Bakare

Profiles

Steve McQueen, October 2020

Joy Gregory, January 2024

Kerry James Marshall, March 2017

Spike Lee, April 2017

John Singleton, June 2017

Mark Bradford, November 2017

Antonio Banderas, April 2018

Erykah Badu, May 2018

Benecio Del Toro, June 2018

Stephen Graham, May 2019

Barbara Walker, September 2019

Lenny Henry, October 2019

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, April 2020

Angela Davis, June 2020

Eric Andre, June 2020

Archie Shepp, February 2021

Henry Taylor, March 2021

Arinzé Kene, September 2021

Everlyn Nicodemus, April 2022

Jeffrey Wright, January 2024

Juan Atkins, August 2024

Slawn, September 2024

A$AP Rocky, July 2015

Trevor Noah, April 2016

Rick Ross, March 2014

Future (part one), April 2014

Future (part two), March 2017

Features

‘Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America’, Feb 2017

‘Will it destroy us? Why horror always creeps in to black drama’, July 2020

‘From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars’, Feb 2025

Cotton Capital: A tale of two cities - The Struggle for a Black History of Manchester

‘Dancing kept me sane’: how black British youth found a home in northern soul’, Nov 2021

‘The new age of Afro-surrealism’, Dec 2018

‘Afrofuturism takes flight’, Jul 2014

Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, has Hollywood got the message on diversity?

‘Bradford has a radical culture all its own’

Podcasts

‘Face The Facts: Debating Black British Identities’, No Signal

‘Eclecticist with Lanre Bakare’, Rinse FM

‘The story of the Mangrove Nine’, Today in Focus

‘Why are the Oscars still so white?’, Today in Focus

Cotton Capital: Resistance