Selected articles page — Lanre Bakare

Journalist — broadcaster

Profiles

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‘I document America’s strange beauty’

Feb 1, 2021

Guardian

‘I document America’s strange beauty’

Feb 1, 2021

Guardian

Feb 1, 2021

Guardian

Angela Davis - ‘As long as the violence of racism remains, no one is safe’

Jun 15, 2020

Guardian

Angela Davis - ‘As long as the violence of racism remains, no one is safe’

Jun 15, 2020

Guardian

Jun 15, 2020

Guardian

'Melania knew what she was putting on': Benicio Del Toro on drugs, Sicario and Trump's border war

Jun 29, 2018

Guardian

'Melania knew what she was putting on': Benicio Del Toro on drugs, Sicario and Trump's border war

Jun 29, 2018

Guardian

Jun 29, 2018

Guardian

Erykah Badu - ‘Everything I do is a political statement’

May 25, 2018

Guardian

Erykah Badu - ‘Everything I do is a political statement’

May 25, 2018

Guardian

May 25, 2018

Guardian

I'm not sorry I said it': Erykah Badu on music, motherhood and wildly unpopular opinions

May 24, 2018

Guardian

I'm not sorry I said it': Erykah Badu on music, motherhood and wildly unpopular opinions

May 24, 2018

Guardian

May 24, 2018

Guardian

Antonio Banderas: ‘I don’t want to live my life like I’m already dead’

Apr 8, 2018

Guardian

Antonio Banderas: ‘I don’t want to live my life like I’m already dead’

Apr 8, 2018

Guardian

Apr 8, 2018

Guardian

Daily Show host Trevor Noah takes aim at his critics

Apr 8, 2016

Guardian

Daily Show host Trevor Noah takes aim at his critics

Apr 8, 2016

Guardian

Apr 8, 2016

Guardian

Conversations with rappers

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Future: ‘You’ve got to set your own destiny and go for the impossible’

Mar 16, 2017

Future: ‘You’ve got to set your own destiny and go for the impossible’

Mar 16, 2017

Mar 16, 2017

A$AP Rocky: ‘Hanging out with Rod Stewart is like seeing yourself 40 years older and white’

Jul 2, 2015

A$AP Rocky: ‘Hanging out with Rod Stewart is like seeing yourself 40 years older and white’

Jul 2, 2015

Jul 2, 2015

Mo' shmoney, mo' problems: the curious case of Bobby Shmurda

Dec 2, 2014

Mo' shmoney, mo' problems: the curious case of Bobby Shmurda

Dec 2, 2014

Dec 2, 2014

2 Chainz on tour: drug busts, twerking and … Segways?

Sep 5, 2014

2 Chainz on tour: drug busts, twerking and … Segways?

Sep 5, 2014

Sep 5, 2014

Future’s so bright

Apr 12, 2014

Future’s so bright

Apr 12, 2014

Apr 12, 2014

Artists

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Steve McQueen: ‘Our Marlon Brandos are on building sites, or driving buses’

Oct 3, 2020

Steve McQueen: ‘Our Marlon Brandos are on building sites, or driving buses’

Oct 3, 2020

Oct 3, 2020

A new Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nude

Apr 28, 2020

A new Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nude

Apr 28, 2020

Apr 28, 2020

Julian Schnabel: ‘Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person? Everyone is pink inside’

Apr 5, 2019

Julian Schnabel: ‘Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person? Everyone is pink inside’

Apr 5, 2019

Apr 5, 2019

Mark Bradford: the artist and ex-hairdresser forcing America to face ugly truths about itself

Nov 14, 2017

Mark Bradford: the artist and ex-hairdresser forcing America to face ugly truths about itself

Nov 14, 2017

Nov 14, 2017

Mar 16, 2017

Paint it black

Mar 16, 2017

Mar 16, 2017

Features

Featured

‘I document America’s strange beauty’

Feb 1, 2021

‘I document America’s strange beauty’

Feb 1, 2021

Feb 1, 2021

Comic Eric Andre is destroying US chatshow conventions … and himself in the process.

Jul 3, 2020

Comic Eric Andre is destroying US chatshow conventions … and himself in the process.

Jul 3, 2020

Jul 3, 2020

Keeping it real - Afrosurrealism

Dec 6, 2018

Keeping it real - Afrosurrealism

Dec 6, 2018

Dec 6, 2018

Jul 25, 2014

Afrofuturism

Jul 25, 2014

Jul 25, 2014