For those coming to tonight's screening of If Beale Street Could Talk for The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on Film season Barbican Centre director
Barry Jenkins will now be joining us live via Zoom for the Q&A with me,Dr Kesewa John and Danielle Manson
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/…

If you remember UNICEF’s James Elder has been warning everyone about the scale of disaster faced in Gaza for months. I cannot imagine what it must be like to return and see it worse. Here in harrowing words, he attempts to capture it: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“He was an exceptional film critic and someone who truly understood the form”: Dr Clive Nwonka UCL IAS on writer and activist James Baldwin in the The Guardian, whose work is the subject of a new film season at the Barbican Centre this month
theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

'You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment,' writes Robin D. G. Kelley in a letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik:

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UCL Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society Clive Nwonka's new film season The Devil Finds Work: Baldwin Through Film opens on Thursday at the Barbican.

Some tickets still available: buff.ly/3y0P27c

Read more in the Guardian feature below ⬇️

COMPOUND INJUSTICE. The essential new report by Professor Eithne Quinn , Erica Kane and Will Pritchard. It offers the most comprehensive review of rap music-assisted cases to date, with an evaluation of 68 cases involving over 250 defendants. Its findings are alarming.

Very excited to be a respondent for Professor Suzi Hall's inaugural lecture LSE Sociology on Monday 13 May, 'The (Im)possible University'--a topic more important now than ever. Ayça Çubukçu will also respond & Fran Tonkiss will chair. LSE LSE Events lse.ac.uk/sociology/even…

Important to remember at this juncture that the encampment that triggered this confrontation was small, yesterday maybe 50 students tops from what I could see and it was not getting bigger because it was sealed to new entrants. A wildly disproportionate escalation.

This. The full book jacket for Black Arsenal: Club Culture, Identity, Published by W&N 29 August 2024. Arsenal Ian Wright Paul Davis Kevin Campbell
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Introducing Black Arsenal, the first dedicated exploration of the club’s relationship to contemporary Black identity and culture.

Edited by @cjnwonka, the book is on sale from 29th August 2024. Purchase yours now 👇

Columbia University faculty have linked arms at the entrance of the encampment as the 2p deadline passes for students to vacate or face suspension.

'Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?' Great piece by Lanre Bakare on James Baldwin's love of cinema, rejection by Hollywood and his film criticism that inspired my new Barbican Centre film season 'The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin Through Film':theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

“I’m being used to whitewash the story of empire and I’m not going for it.”

As he releases his memoir Track Record, George the Poet explains why he turned down an MBE and how the UK's political culture has moved 'in favour of the elites'.

#OtD 29 Apr 1982 300 mainly South Asian women machinists were on strike in protest at the sacking of two unionists and low wages at Supreme Quilting in Smethwick, UK. After a prolonged dispute, they won union recognition, although not reinstatement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10071/…

“The only reason we didn’t descend into violence that day was that the students remained calm. They were the only adults in the room.” —Nadia Abu El-Haj on the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia go.nybooks.com/4ddotM7

'Black music arriving after WW2 is a lie'

The first major exhibition documenting 500 years of Black music in Britain opens at the British Library and aims to challenge the timeline on when the Black presence in British music history began.

Ayshah Tull spoke to pioneers of Black…

Not an Arsenal fan, but the connection between Black British identity and Arsenal has always been apparent.

My favourite player in history is probably Henry, even though I support Spurs.

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