Benjamin Zephaniah
Leading artists criticise Barbican’s collaboration with Israeli embassy for concert
Jerusalem Orchestra East & West’s performance ‘cynical attempt to re-brand apartheid as diversity’, claims letter by over 50 artists
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent
01, Feb, 2023 @5:55 PM
Stars urge Commonwealth to oppose UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda
Celebrities including Sophie Okonedo and David Harewood say scheme shows ‘colonial view’ of Africa as ‘dumping ground’
Geneva Abdul
25, Jun, 2022 @6:00 AM
Student loan ban will hit dyslexic people hard, says Benjamin Zephaniah
Poet and Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Theo Paphitis join outcry against linking GCSE results to loan eligibility
Michael Savage Policy Editor
26, Feb, 2022 @1:27 PM
Top 10 Christmas poems | Allie Esiri
Poets from Thomas Hardy to TS Eliot and Wendy Cope articulate the wonder – and dread – of the festive season
Allie Esiri
22, Dec, 2021 @11:00 AM
Standing Firm: Football’s Windrush Story review – a damning history lesson with Benjamin Zephaniah
This essential documentary catalogues everything black footballers have done for the beautiful game – and the disgraceful abuse they have suffered in return
Stuart Jeffries
29, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
Livestreamed documentary Rivercide to unmask UK’s water polluters
George Monbiot hosts innovative investigation naming the farms and water firms damaging Britain’s rivers
Tom Wall
14, Jul, 2021 @7:00 AM
Fiction for older children review – wayward wizards and a war of the worlds
History and the mysteries of the human heart take centre stage in this month’s best tales
Kitty Empire
17, Nov, 2020 @9:00 AM
Black History Month needs a wider focus | Letter
Letter: British colonial exploitation affected many countries, and the descendants of those who suffered should also have the opportunity to explore and criticise it, writes Peter Rowlands
Letters
18, Oct, 2020 @4:32 PM
Benjamin Zephaniah: 'Coppers were standing on my back and I thought: OK, I’m going to die here.’
The poet and novelist has had a turbulent lockdown, with two relatives lost to Covid-19 and George Floyd’s death bringing back memories of his cousin, Mikey Powell, who was killed by the police in 2003
Simon Hattenstone
07, Jul, 2020 @7:24 AM
Black Writers’ Guild calls for sweeping change in UK publishing
More than 100 authors join new body calling for the industry to address deep-seated inequalities in output and personnel
Sian Cain
15, Jun, 2020 @5:08 PM
We can’t avoid the word empire when it still shapes our world | Afua Hirsch
Lisa Nandy’s pledge to remove the word from the honours system won’t erase the history it stands for, says Guardian columnist Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch
12, Feb, 2020 @4:59 PM
Bob Marley's London home gets one of few blue plaques for black artists
Plaque at Chelsea house where reggae star lived in the 70s one of ‘unacceptably low’ number
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
01, Oct, 2019 @3:05 PM
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