A SEAT AT THE TABLE

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged a seat at the table, album, artivism, arts, BHM, black history month, black pride, black women, Chance the Rapper, creative, empowerment, FUBU, hip hop, Jill Scott, Kelela, Kelly Rowland, LEMONADE, message, music, Nina Simone, Noname, prince, Puma, QTip, racism, Raphael Saadiq, review, Sampha, Solange, solange knowles, South Africa, style, Tink, women artists.

by Candice Nembhard

‘A Seat at the Table’ is the newly debuted project by the enigmatic Solange Knowles. The 21 track album marries intricate layers of R&B with densely packed lyrics, carving open a bigger space to discuss the beauty of black creatives. With features from the likes of Kelly Rowland, Q-Tip, Sampha and Kelela – not forgetting incredible production credits from Raphael Saadiq – there is no denying that Knowles is opening and changing the space for admiring and respecting black creativity.

EMPIRE

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged #BlackLivesMatter, activism, angry, artivism, arts, bang, BHM, black history month, Blacktober, BLM, comma, creative writing, dead, empire, Filipino, form, format, guns, human, imperialism, injustice, justice, lines, poem, poetry, shot, silence, text, verse, violence, voice, writer, writing.

by Julian Canlas

(in support of Black Lives Matter)

a, pustule, fleshspun, pierced, when,
echoes, become, loud, and, silenced—loudly silenced—
when, burdens, are, called, gifts—processes, of, unintuition,
when, killing, becomes, justified, as, horror, of, the, natural,Continue Reading

I AM

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged androgyny, art, artist, arts, BHM, bhm2015, black, black history month, BME, Indian, mic drop, non binary artists, original art, original design, portrait, race, representation, selfportrait, speech, spice, token, voice, women artists.

by Asia Patel

IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, artist, arts, BHM, bhm2015, black, black history, black history month, BME, free speech, non binary artists, original art, original design, POC, privilege, race, racism, representation, speech, voice, white privilege, women artists.

by Asia PatelContinue Reading

“WHEN’S WHITE HISTORY MONTH?” AND THE IDENTITY OF ‘BLACK’

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Beyonce, BHM, bisexuality, black, black history, black history month, BME, colonialism, colourism, Eurocentrism, fetish, identity, intersectionality, Lauryn Hill, LGBT+, liberation, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, misogynoir, oppression, POC, politics, power dynamics, race, racism, Serena Williams, sex worker, white privilege.

by Emmanuel Agu

Let’s face it, the history we are exposed to in this state is white-oriented, Eurocentric and frequently glamourizes the power and history of Britain’s Imperialism. School curriculum’s explain theorems, recount stories and literature of white heroes, white professors and white creatives. Our history museums and art establishments are filled to the brim of treasures looted from Africa and Asia that continue to remain in our state for claims of ‘greater accessibility’ for the rest of the world– Infact even within the castle of our Monarch sits the remains of buried princes forcibly taken from their homes. In the supremacist society we live in- white history is celebrated and panegyrized daily, don’t be so ignorant as to ask for your time of remembrance when society does not exclude you.

Black history month exists in defiance of the structures that chose to exclude those that supremacy excludes- but one must, ask what does it mean to be black?

BHM

A SEAT AT THE TABLE

EMPIRE

I AM

IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW

“WHEN’S WHITE HISTORY MONTH?” AND THE IDENTITY OF ‘BLACK’

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