Bad Brains: When Punk Met Reggae (Again)
Roxanna Zoughi celebrates the legacy of Bad Brains, a hardcore punk band formed in 1977, whose incorporation of reggae and...
Month: October 2020
Punk is Black!
Punk music, as a genre, has a long and illustrious history, and most music historians list the first ‘punk’ records...
Britain’s Other Pandemic: How COVID-19 Testing is Laying Bare Inequalities in our School System
If we take a step back from the horrors of this year’s A-Level and GCSE grading debacle, little is being...
Review: beabadoobee’s Fake It Flowers
Ordinarily, at this point in the year, we’d be approaching gig season. Although the music scene islooking a little quieter...
Retroactive remedying: How can depictions of Blackface be torn down?
After my weekly comfort viewing of Community the other day, I was alerted to the fact that Netflix had purged one of...
Crucial Books To Read During This Black History Month
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter By Wesley Lowery In They Can’t Kill Us All,...
Let’s Travel with Emily In Paris
Anushka Searle reviews Netflix's new hit show, Emily in Paris. During a time when all we want to do is...
Clean Air Day 2020: What can we do to tackle pollution?
October 8th 2020 marked Clean Air Day 2020 , the UK’s largest air pollution campaign led by Global Action Plan, a charity...
The politics of Misogynoir: One of the many barriers which silence and erase black women in the public sphere
The abuse and hate hurled at black and dark-skinned women who dare to take a seat at the table and speak truth...
Remembering Eddie Van Halen: Legacy of the Guitar Virtuoso
Roxanna Zoughi pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen, legendary guitarist of pioneering hard rock band Van Halen, who has died...
