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The vast majority of London-based Bangladeshis speak Sylheti yet their language and standard Bengali are mutually unintelligible. Recently the written script, Sylheti Nagri has seen a revival in south Asia and in the UK, as a new generation question the disconnect between what they speak at home and how they communicate in public.
Continue ReadingMy name is Kashif Boothe and In September 2016 I released a 3 Part documentary series on hair titled ‘What Is Good Hair?‘ What Is Good Hair? features black and mixed race women who choose to rock their natural hair. In this documentary they share their experiences, the misconceptions and whether women who wear weaves, […]
Continue ReadingLondon— April 8th, 2015. The bfmiff2015 12th Edition returns to London after an absence of 4 years. The festival will take place from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th July 2015.
Continue ReadingA new documentary launched a week after the general election in Westminster provides some answers
Continue ReadingSome, if not most, of the most accomplished jazz musicians in the world performed brilliantly at the United Nations on International Jazz Day, April 10, 2015, at the same time sanctifying with music a failed United Nations, which, since its creation by the colonial powers, has facilitated genocide for profit of the amoral wealthy elite […]
Continue Reading“I considered the people I was killing to be savages because of the violence they committed against American troops, the beheadings, the rapes of innocent villagers. They lived by putting fear into other people’s hearts and civilized people don’t act that way. I wasn’t so much committed to killing them as I was committed to […]
Continue ReadingRapper Lupe Fiasco, real name Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, was kicked off stage by Barack Obama’s security at the StartUp RockOn concert to celebrate the re-election of the president on January 21st at the Hamilton in Washington D.C., after singing a rap which criticised Barack Obama and America’s foreign policy.
Continue ReadingA new five-part BBC series about the British Empire will explore the so called ‘good’ and bad aspects of the empire, but this idea that the British Empire was somehow a force for good is an affront to the African slave trade and nations which were subjected to colonial rule by force.
Continue ReadingChris Lamontagne, a 20 year old student from Westminster is celebrating after news that he has won two prestigious awards at the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival, an international festival with awards established by the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC).
Continue ReadingAfrican-American singer Kelis is furious with Britain after saying that a man called her “Kunta Kinte”, during an argument over queue jumping at an airport and she said that Britain was “racially decades behind progression”, after posting the details on Twitter.
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