
There are many reasons to like JJC’s “We Are Africans”; a positive, inclusive and unhesitatingly pan-Africanist message, contributions from several rappers, including women rappers and a music video for the remix featuring the wonderful Femi Kuti.
March 9, 2010 | Posted in
Rap and Hip-Hop |
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Our grandparents had Ruby and Ossie. Our parents had Ashford and Simpson. Our generation…Well, we have Will and Jada, Beyonce and Jay Z, Aja and Fatin. Aja and Fatin you may ask? Outside of Philadelphia, they are better known as Kindred the Family Soul.
March 9, 2010 | Posted in
Music |
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In ‘The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can’t Find Good Black Men,’ Jimi Izrael is taking on a complex, sensitive, vital and always interesting agenda, which few African American men (or African/Caribbean-British men, for that matter) care to take on at all, let alone publicly and with so much effort.
March 6, 2010 | Posted in
Books |
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Mark Z. Danielewski’s, House of Leaves, is on some levels a love story, on another it is an existential horror story, on yet others, it is a puzzle contained within pages. It whirls past preconceived notions of what a book is and turns into something completely new.
February 28, 2010 | Posted in
Books |
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America may have its Spike Lee, Toni Morrison, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey or Danny Glover, to name a few, but the recent success of British films at the box-office has brought with it no significant or corresponding improvement in the profile or fortunes of our black writers, actors and movie makers.
February 22, 2010 | Posted in
Culture |
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Readers of Empire magazine voted it the fourth best film of all time. Viewers of Channel 4 voted it the best. “As someone who works in a prison, I can’t help but find the fundamental, untruth of prison movies – even the beloved Shawshank – infuriating. Real prison life is not romantic. It is not a backdrop. Prison life is routine and methodical…
February 13, 2010 | Posted in
Film |
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Goodbye Uncle Tom is possibly the most politically incorrect “shockumentary” you are ever likely to see. A disgusting, perverted, apparently hysterical, look at the slave trade in the mid 1800s by Italian directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi.
January 27, 2010 | Posted in
Film |
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MISTY IN ROOTS’ status in the canon of British Reggae is unparalleled; not just because of the band’s longevity (still going strong) but also because they have stuck to their original brief of playing spiritual, rootsy, African fusion reggae.
January 19, 2010 | Posted in
Reggae |
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What could be so enthralling about an ailing old geezer travelling on a lawnmower some 240+ miles across the heartland of America?
January 9, 2010 | Posted in
Film |
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To coincide with a new website outlining Sylvester Stein’s interesting life, the Nononsense Press republishes his third novel, written in the early ’60s and called, ‘What the World Owes Me by Mary Bowes.’
January 6, 2010 | Posted in
Books |
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