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Some, 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.
Continue ReadingRapper Soulja Boy shamefully apologised for lyrics in one of his songs which criticised American soldiers and the FBI after music outlets run by the military threatened not to stock his new album.
Continue ReadingPress release by Debra (MTA Productions LTD)© Most production companies who want to get a sitcom onto television follow a set path. Have an idea. Make a pilot. Pitch it. And keep on pitching it. Hopefully it will get picked up. But what happens if, like TV Producer and director Debra Odutuyo, it doesn’t get […]
Continue ReadingBlack television presenter Ben Douglas was left furious when celebrity hairdresser James Brown referred to his female companion and himself as niggers in a drunken tirade at the Baftas.
Continue ReadingThe Asian Music Circuit (AMC) was created by the Arts Council in 1989 as a result of an internal inquiry in 1985 into the state of Asian music in the UK. Since there was an evident and clear demand but no available funding at that time, the Arts Council created the AMC and funded it […]
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