Ammar Kalia

Lamin Fofana – The Open Boat Across the eight tracks of Lamin Fofana’s latest album trilogy, the Sierra Leonean producer builds on his...

"I definitely lead a non-politician life; I smoke weed and I go to strip clubs with my wife,” the rapper Killer Mike says with a laugh....

Tumi Mogorosi – Group Theory ‘New Black music is this: find the self, then kill it.” The US poet Amiri Baraka wrote these words in the...

It’s not often you get the green light from Bob Dylan to run riot with his songs. But for composer Simon Hale and playwright Conor...

Sean Paul is a party-starter. Few artists have a back catalogue better primed for the dancefloor than the multimillion-selling Jamaican...

At 21, the singer Jean Carne had uprooted her life in Atlanta, Georgia, to elope to Hollywood with jazz pianist Doug Carn. It was 1969,...

Auntie Flo & Sarathy Korwar – Shruti Dances Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar has made a career of unifying unexpected collaborators....

Early 00s pop TV was fertile ground for hyperactive performances. From the flirty cheek of TMi to the saccharine staging of CD:UK,...

‘Sometimes the truth is messy and illogical,” says Anupama Chandrasekhar. “But theatre can display the truth in ways journalism or other...

When he was 15, John Stephens of Springfield, Ohio, entered an essay competition run by McDonald’s for Black History Month. Asked “How do...