1 min readWe are back! with a revamp and a new sister website urbankapital.comHello readers and subscribers, it's been a while since we were bringing you daily and weekly news, articles and opinions on all things...
6 min readLet’s reflect on the lack of information surrounding Black British artAfter reading Reni Eddo-Lodge’s breathtaking paperback entitled ‘Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race’, I not only began...
4 min read15 Black artists embrace “Style as a point of survival and liberty”Style is an expression of self that weaves together our aesthetic sensibilities with the time, place, and culture in which we live. But...
2 min readBurna Boy is the first Nigerian musician with a silver certification in the UKDamini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, 29, known professionally as Burna Boy, Nigerian singer and songwriter, has become the first Nigerian artist with...
5 min readNigerian-British Writer Black centres on the joy and resilience of young women of colour The first play Theresa Ikoko wrote wasn’t necessarily meant to be a play — not yet, anyway. At that point it was simply a story she had...
4 min readWhy curvy black women can’t be trouble-free lead characters in films?Regardless of how many leaps and bounds Hollywood claims to have made with diversity, black, fat women are still an afterthought. You...
3 min readSouth African ‘Jerusalema’, the song of Christian prayer that became an international hit When South African record producer and artiste Master KG says global reception to his song Jerusalema has been nothing short of a “dream...
2 min readEmmys: controversy for a showcase of apparent diversity and people of colour“I’m sure the last thing the Television Academy wanted was to have an ‘Emmys so white’ controversy in the middle of all that,” explained...