Writing by Lanre Bakare
Profiles
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Misan Harriman
June 2026
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Joy Gregory
January 2024
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Kerry James Marshall
March 2017
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Spike Lee
April 2017
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John Singleton
June 2017
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Stephen Graham
May 2019
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John Singleton
June 2017
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Mark Bradford
November 2017
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Antonio Baderas
April 2018
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Erykah Badu
May 2018
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Benecio Del Toro
June 2018
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Barbara Walker
September 2019
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Lenny Henry
October 2019
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya
April 2020
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Angela Davis
June 2020
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Eric Andre
June 2020
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Archie Shepp
February 2021
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Henry Taylor
March 2021
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Arinzé Kene
September 2021
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Everlyn Nicodemus
April 2022
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Jeffrey Wright
January 2024
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Juan Atkins
August 2024
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Slawn
September 2024
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A$AP Rocky
July 2015
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Trevor Noah
April 2016
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Rick Ross
March 2014
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Future (Part One)
April 2014
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Future (Part Two)
March 2017
Features
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Initiation stones, buried recordings, and Ringo Starr’s drumkit: inside the visionary world of reggae master Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
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From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars
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‘Dancing kept me sane’: how black British youth found a home in northern soul
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Will it destroy us? Why horror always creeps in to black drama
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The struggle for a Black history of Manchester
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‘It’s an opportunity for bonding’ – my quest to become a Black dad who can do his daughters’ hair
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Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, has Hollywood got the message on diversity?
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‘Bradford has a radical culture all its own’
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‘Afrofuturism takes flight’
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Cotton Capital: A tale of two cities - The Struggle for a Black History of Manchester
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‘Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America’, Feb 2017
Podcasts
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The new Michael Jackson biopic. Why now?
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Why the UK banned Kanye West
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Does British Culture Need Saving?
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‘The story of the Mangrove Nine’, Today in Focus
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‘Why are the Oscars still so white?’, Today in Focus
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‘The story of the Mangrove Nine’, Today in Focus
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BBC Front Row
