Celebrating Black History Month with a curated playlist exploring Black history
Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie Chambers and Harold Offeh talk to Anne McElvoy.
The long history of climate change and empire: historians Nandini Das and Peter Frankopan
New research into female slave owners in Britain to women on Caribbean plantations.
Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.
Matthew Sweet and guests explore Davis's genre-stretching album, released on 11 Oct 1972.
How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.
Matthew Sweet examines how sugar built the modern world.
Hanif Abdurraqib, Dawn Walton, Adjoa Osei on black performers from jazz to the Super Bowl
Writers Ben Lerner, JJ Bola and Derek Owusu on images of masculinity in fiction and life.
Digging into the music of composers Joseph Bologne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry.
New research into music by Margaret Bonds, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Ali Osman, Isaac Hishow.
Shahidha Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.
From négritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.
From an 18th-century Black Juliet to Ira Aldridge’s daughter Amanda. Plus, Rita Montaner.
Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history
Shahidha Bari leads a discussion of Nigerian-born novelist Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017).
Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art.
Damon Galgut discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy
Writer Howard Jacobson, photographer Ruth Sutoyé talk family histories with Matthew Sweet
Ingrid Pollard, Julian Perry, Patricia Dominguez, Will Abberley and Eleanor Barraclough.
Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin Le Gendre and Owen Hatherley build up a manifesto.
As a Tate Britain show opens, Shahidha Bari looks at Caribbean post-war writing and art
Digging into the music of composers Joseph Boulogne, Kikuko Kanai and Julia Perry
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Colin Grant and Kei Miller discuss the Caribbean with Matthew Sweet
