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MEPs back plans for ‘return hubs’, raising fears of ‘human rights black holes’
People with no right to stay in the EU could be detained for up to two years or sent to offshore centres described by experts as possible “human rights...
Black music has been the driving force in Britain’s music industry and culture. It’s time we treated it that way | Kanya King
Last week, UK Music published the Black Music Means Business report, quantifying something many of us have always known instinctively. Over the past three decades, music originating from Black...
UK manufacturers hit by sharpest rise in cost inflation since Black Wednesday in 1992
The UK’s manufacturers have suffered the sharpest one-month acceleration in costs since the aftermath of Black Wednesday in 1992, as conflict in the Middle East has driven up oil...
Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor review – portrait of a working-class artist in New York
Brandon Taylor’s third novel, following the Booker-shortlisted Real Life and 2023’s The Late Americans, is full of hands. It’s set in the years after a pandemic that made many...
Príncipe Discos: how Black DJs from Lisbon’s suburbs made Europe’s most exciting record label
It’s just after 11.30pm on a Friday in early March, and the air at Lux Frágil is already thick with excitement. Groups of people are streaming in through the...
Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes first woman – and first black person – to win best cinematography Oscar
Sinners’ director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw has become the first woman to win the Oscar for best cinematography at the 98th Academy Awards now under way in Los...
Act Black: posters of Black Americans on stage and screen – in pictures
A new exhibition at New York’s Poster House celebrates the work of Black performers on stage and screen from the 1880s to the 1940s. Many of these posters are...
Black people up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in richest areas of London
Black people are up to 48 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in some of London’s best-off areas, a new report has...
Who decides what’s news these days? For all the diversity talk, it certainly isn’t Black journalists | Omega Douglas
There’s a generally accepted ethical requirement for news organisations to reflect society, both in terms of the content they produce and the people who produce it. Unfortunately, this is...
