Jodie Turner-Smith: ‘Tapping into the turmoil of Anne Boleyn felt so easy’ | Television
[ad_1] Jodie Turner-Smith is a British actor and the star of Channel 5’s forthcoming drama Anne Boleyn, in which she plays the doomed queen. Born in Peterborough, Turner-Smith moved to the US as a child and later worked in finance before she began a career in modelling. She made her acting debut in 2013 in […]
‘I’m broken and my only sin was being a woman’ – Gabrielle Goliath’s survivors | Photography
[ad_1] The event that shaped Gabrielle Goliath’s life as an artist happened when she was nine years old: a schoolfriend was killed in an act of domestic violence, the details of which have never been clear. “It would have been an accident,” she says, from her home in Johannesburg, 30 years on. “But, you know, […]
Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’ | Stage
[ad_1] Hanif Kureishi has been reflecting on toxic masculinity. He has heard a lot about it in the past year and it has entered the fiction he has been writing over lockdown – at quite a rate by the sound of it – and sparked stories about predation, sexual misdemeanour and “what’s going on between […]
What’s Going On at 50: Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece is still so true to life | Marvin Gaye
[ad_1] Marvin Gaye’s classic 1971 record What’s Going On turns 50 this month, which means more people than ever will have occasion to note how timely it is. “He could have written What’s Going On yesterday,” poet Nikki Giovanni noted in an interview last autumn, explaining that the cover portrait of her 2020 collection, Make […]
Who’s missing? Top author stirs anger with ‘too white’ history | History books
[ad_1] It has taken nearly a decade to research and write, and runs to more than 750 pages. But The History Makers, described as “an epic exploration of those who write about the past”, has itself been rewritten after its author failed to take into account enough black historians, academics and writers. Richard Cohen was […]
The Underground Railroad review – harrowing, magical, masterful TV | Television
[ad_1] Director Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s prizewinning novel The Underground Railroad (Amazon) is as unbearably bleak, brutal and brilliant as the book. You could question a couple of the choices made while translating the magical-realist tale of black slavery from page to screen – why devote all of one of the 10 episodes […]
This man made opera history. Why did I not know him? | Opera
[ad_1] Here’s a little song I wroteYou might want to sing it note for note Don’t worry, be happy” Everyone knows Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 earwormy hit and its gloriously silly video. I remember dancing round the living room with my sisters singing along full pelt, each of us taking turns to try our hands at […]
Barry Jenkins: ‘Maybe America has never been great’ | Barry Jenkins
[ad_1] Barry Jenkins first heard the history of the Underground Railroad from a teacher when he was six or seven years old. The school lesson described the loose network of safe houses and abolitionists that helped enslaved people in the American south escape to free states in the north in the 19th century. Jenkins as […]
‘We had a therapist on set’ – William Jackson Harper on The Underground Railroad | Television
[ad_1] When he was a child growing up in Texas in the 1980s, William Jackson Harper went to a show at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas. “There was some part of the programme where some guy, somewhere in the stands, screams out, ‘The south will rise again!’ Things like that just came up that […]
Gaming in colour: uncovering video games’ black pioneers | Games
[ad_1] In the 1970s, in the fledgling days of the video games industry, an engineer named Gerald “Jerry” Lawson designed one of the earliest game consoles, the Channel F, and also led the team that invented the game cartridge, a defining innovation in how games were made and sold. His son, Andersen Lawson, recalls that […]
