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Take Flight with Randolph Matthews coming to Ledbury to raise the roof off the Great Barn, Hellens Manor with #poetry jazz and gospel Friday 5th July ⁦@LedburyPoetry⁩ ⁦⁦@NineArchesPress⁩ ⁦@PoetrySociety⁩ ⁦@VervePoetryFest⁩ ⁦@writingwestmids⁩ 🙏🏿🙏🏿

#BlackBritishHistory Paul Robeson was presented by the British Soviet Society at Birmingham Town Hall on 21 May 1949, 77 years to the day. Ref: LP 22.41 @LibraryofBham @BlackBritHist

The music you know. The story you don’t. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson tells the story of the Grammy-award winning band chronicling their evolution, highs and lows, spiritual meaning, and lasting legacy. #EarthWindandFireHBO premieres June 7 on @HBOMax.

.@malodoherty writing on new collections & themes from N Irish poets @cartmilldeirdre Mícheál McCann @BoyleMo Frank Ormsby Patrick Ramsey in @BelTel @ArtsCouncilNI

Our poem of the week comes from our Summer 2026 Special Commendation: The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith (@BloodaxeBooks) 'What It's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)' first appeared in her 1991 collection, Life According to Motown. Order The Intentions of Thunder here, with 25% off for PBS members: poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/su…

Looking forward to launching Magma 94 'Remix' THIS FRI 22 May with readings from contributors to the magazine. The Nook, 385 Coldharbour Lane, London SW9 8GL. Entry is free. Doors open at 6.45pm, and the event starts at 7pm. Register your place here - eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-remix-…

Tonight @PBSAmerMasters premieres the new film by Rita Coburn about the life and work of the great W.E.B. Du Bois. Hope you have a chance to watch: pbs.org/wnet/americanm…

The NEWS is finally out!!! The Black British Book Festival is BACK, and we're coming BIGGER. 🖤🔥 Mark your calendars: 🗓 Sunday 4th October, 2026 📍 @BarbicanCentre, London More extraordinary Black authors: powerful panels, live performances, book signings, and the kind of energy you can only feel when the entire community shows up. 🙌🏾 This is Europe's largest Black Book Festival, and you already know what that means. Save the date. Bring your people. Tell everybody. More announcements incoming. Stay close. 👀 #BBBF26 #BlackBritishBookFestival #BlackExcellence #ReadBlack #BookFestivalLondon

The Black British Book Festival has spotlighted Black literary agents in the UK actively seeking new voices. If you are a Black writer with a manuscript, these are the names you need to know! ✍🏾📝 brittlepaper.com/2026/05/black-…

• In 1961, Nelson Mandela, operating underground, gave his first TV interview to ITN. • He described the severe repression and violence Black South Africans faced for peaceful protest, noting the regime's brutal force to maintain apartheid. • This was months before co-founding Umkhonto we Sizwe and three years before his life imprisonment.

As a poetry co-editor for the Morning Star, I'd love to feature good poems. Our email address is: thursdaypoems@gmail Send good work now! morningstaronline.co.uk/article/my-do-…

“Practice any Art: music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, no matter how well or badly, not to get money & fame but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

Racist French Colonial Authorities Prevented Black Africans From Making Their Own Films for Decades to Control How Africa and Black People Were Portrayed Until Ousmane Sembène (who was educated in Moscow) Released Black Girl in 1966

Only a few tickets left for Tuesday's fab workshop with sonnets wizz Hannah Lowe!

One of the fathers of Pan African. C.L.R.

We're looking for work that comes out of "song." A particular song. A group of songs. An era. "Song" should be the launching point. We're looking for pieces that treat song not only as "music," but as a gateway to memory, confession, protest, or revelation.

I finally found this rare footage: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s speech at the All-African Peoples’ Conference (AAPC), Accra, Ghana, 1958.

We're delighted to share The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith, published by @BloodaxeBooks, as our Special Commendation for Summer 2026. Read about the poet and order The Intentions of Thunder here on our website: poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/mee…

Next month, poet Roger Robinson (@rrobinson72) delivers an online lecture on American poetry — the first in our Black Poetry Lectures series, co-hosted with Arvon (@arvonfoundation). . Register here: arvon.org/writing-course… . #blackpoetry

Ousmane Sembene made a beautiful, heartbreaking film about this massacre, you can watch it for free on the Black Film Archive blackfilmarchive.com/Camp-de-Thiaro…