Familiar Traces
Directed by Izzy Mana and Enrico Bellenghi, Familiar Traces is a fashion film narrative which explores the internal pressure that second generation Black British youth face from a young age
Prayer
“Everything I like is like that man who first thought to take that picture of that starving black child waited for by that black vulture in that Sudan” – new prose poem by Tawanda Mulalu.
My Skin My Logo
I’m sick and tired of the dehumanization of Black people and the exertion of control placed on our bodies. Our skin is ours, and our bodies are our own. We are not a vessel for your hatred and insecurity.
Black Kitchen
An ode to Southern cooking and AAVE.
When I Get Home: Solange's Cartography
In When I Get Home, a title itself implying a road and destination tied to self, Solange sketches a journey, maps out the paths that have led her to this exact moment as both artist and woman and black being.
The 126-Year-Old White Gaze of Vogue
Why does it matter so much to have a black photographer shooting the cover of Vogue? Tyler Mitchell is the first in the magazine’s long history.
gaborone #2
A mother files for a visa to see her son, a young black boy in America, from the sweaty rooms of the US embassy in Botswana.
Grandfather's God
Mhraf Worku takes us to the heart of a religious ritual, stained with apprehension and family history.