Review – New Diorama Theatre’s For Black Boys… Ryan Calais Cameron’s new play inspired by Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls
Arike Oke, Managing Director departs Black Cultural Archives on 30 October

British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) announces longlist

The Fashion Minority Alliance celebrates its first year with an interactive digital festival
Interview with Freddie Opoku-Addaie Artist Director and Chief Executive of Dance Umbrella
The Studio Museum in Harlem Announces: Artists In Residence 2021–22
National Theatre releases first-look at original film by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams, Death of England: Face to Face
Interview: Heather Agyepong tours new solo performance The Body Remembers “how trauma lives in the body”
Colin Powell, first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19 complications
The Amplify Project: Black British Writers In Their Own Words
Hauser & Wirth presents ‘Thoughts Unseen’, two decades of conceptual enquiry, subverting stereotypes of Black men and women within society and traditional power structures
Earthshot Prize Awards hosted by Clara Amfo and Dermot O’Leary: Republic of Costa Rica is Protect & Restore Nature Winner
Iranian road trip movie HIT THE ROAD – Panah Panahi, wins Best Film Award in Official Competition at London Film Festival Competition
#Africa Writes to conclude with two-day in person festival at the British Library
Art ON Weekend: 1-54 & Frieze London & Frieze Masters ends soon
ear for eye actor David Gyasi talks about how heart breaking having that “conversation” with 13 year old son was
“Coiled” Brand New Podcast Doc Exploring Afro Hair and Black British Experience
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to Somerset House for 9th London edition
The Young Vic: Cush Jumbo’s long anticipated gender-blind Hamlet opens
New data shows Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority and poorer communities are more likely to live in areas with toxic air
Rudie’s Jerk Shack collaborates with ASH Culinaria x Chef Anthony Cumberbatch for a BHM Supper club until 29 October
Diversity at the BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL: King Richard, Missing, 4 Feet High, ear for eye, The Tragedy of Macbeth and more…. 
MATT DAMON, JODIE COMER, AND BEN AFFLECK CELEBRATE RIDLEY SCOTT’S “THE LAST DUEL” U.S. PREMIERE
Tanzanian novelist Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel for depicting impact of colonialism, migration
Illycaffè introduces illy Art Collection by Ron Arad for the 53rd Barcolana sailing regatta
will.i.am: The Blackprint
New body of work by prominent artist Pablo Bronstein: “Hell in its Heyday” opens at Sir John Soane’s Museum
5 London Eateries to Visit This Week
Sundance Institute: Vanguard Award Celebration to Honor  Summer Of Soul director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and CODA director Siân Heder
Frieze London: Addis Fine Art to Open First Permanent Gallery Outside of Ethiopia
Debbie Tucker Green’s second feature, Eye for Ear to premiere at BFI London Film Festival, BBC Two and iPlayer on 16 October 2021
Unframing Art: Alba Amicorum liberates art from the frame and onto fluid fabric – to be worn, draped or wrapped in any way you like
Join University of West London celebrate BHM with launch of MA in Global Black Studies, Decolonisation and Social Justice today 1st October
Interview: Rebekah Murrell plays Juliet at The Globe runs until 17th October
Revere the creative power of the earth between your feet! Theaster Gates delivers conceptual sermons on the meaning and significance of clay in an expansive new survey 
DADA Gallery: Bunmi Agusto creates series of artworks and immersive tapestries to feature at Paris Fashion Week
Interview Ryan Calais Cameron: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy
Japan Week : Lexus is official car partner of the Japan Week Festival Week  starts today 27th September
Alfred Fagon Awards call for 25 Black Champions of Theatre celebrating their 25th anniversary: Nominate your Black Champion HERE!!
5 Things To Do This September by Phoebe Fraser: London Design Festival | Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity | London Coffee Festival | RA Summer Exhibition | A Clay Sermon
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fatima Bhutto, Margaret Busby, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Edmund de Waal join English PEN’s centenary celebrations at the Southbank Centre
Breaking the Mould: New Signatures from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Park Theatre are recruiting: Are you their new Trustee or Trustee (Chair of Finance Committee)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song Melvin Van Peebles, Filmmaker Heralded Godfather of Black Cinema Dies age 89
London Design Festival ties together challenge of climate change and sustainability with celebration of diversity
Seena Hodges Named First African American President of the Board Of Trustees at the Walker Art Center
Judi Love talks about being part of Strictly and her “excitement” to learn Rumba
First-look images released for psychological thriller The Girl Before coming soon to BBC One
London Fashion Week SS22 highlights: Bora Aksu – Pink is in!!
Review: Athol Fugard’s “Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act” revival by Diane Page stands as powerful reminder of the inhumanity in South Africa as recent as 1985
Michaela Coel historic win first Black woman to win #Emmys for limited series writing: and complete Listing Of 73rd Emmy Winners here
Major funding opportunity for environmentally-friendly projects in Harrow: Small businesses, not-for-profit groups and social enterprises can apply @GroundworkLON 
Rockets and Blue Lights by Winsome Pinnock Win Tickets: 2 Tickets end 22nd Sept
theatre peckham presents YOUNG, GIFTED & BLACK 2021: 5 weeks of events includes Inua Ellams’s “Search Party” & Annette Brook’s queer drama “how we love”
Radio 4 increases airtime for the arts with new shows and an extended Front Row
Quick Chat with Actress, Author Karyn Parsons AKA “Hilary Banks” on her new multi-award winning Film “Sweet Thing”
Leeds Festival of Ideas: The MOBOs and Me with Kanya King
Review – Rockets and Blue Lights: Pinnock’s urgent play inspired by JMW Turner painting, asks who owns our past and who has the right to tell its stories?
Fenty Beauty Unveils New Limited Edition 12-Pan Eyeshadow Palette Dubbed Bomb Posse
Comedy at iconic Globe Theatre: Dara Ó Briain is joined by Athena Kugblenu for 1 night of comedy 13th Sept
Arcola Theatre: Utopia Theatre, by arrangement with DALRO (Pty) Limited, presents And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses
GET READY FOR THE PARTY OF THE YEAR WITH PIRATES A REGGIE YATES FILM ARRIVING IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 2021
“Rockets and Blue Lights” comes to National Theatre: Director Miranda Cromwell talks career, her love for Winsome Pinnock’s “master storytelling” and more
Talking to Emmy-winning director Jake Scott: his new doc “Kipchoge: The Last Milestone” follows record breaking marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge
Laemmle Monica Film Center: 2021 Tribeca Film Festival audience award winner FERGUSON RISES opens Sept 17
Orange Tree Theatre: Talking to Diane Page Director “Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act”: Win tickets WOMEN only!!
Reggae Dub Legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry the man who gave Bob Marley reggae dies aged 85
Cast and creatives announced for #Foxes at #Theatre503
Bank Holiday TV Monday 30 Aug: New ITV drama Stephen stars Sharlene Whyte, Steve Coogan and Hugh Quarshie supported by Lawrence family
Marvel first #Asian Superhero: SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS in Cinemas 3rd Sept 21: exclusive first look red carpet images Mayfair UK
Kanye West: Elusive album #Donda has listening party in Atlanta
Mr. Soul! on HBOMAX now
James Freeman Gallery presents SIKELELA OWEN 9 September – 2 October 2021
World Premiere: Debbie Tucker Green’s Second “ear for eye” to get a Unique Multiple Platform Launch as part of 65th BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Channel 4 crowns Candice Carty-Williams “Queenie”
CANDYMAN (2021): WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE MONSTER IN THE MIRROR: Cast and characters in cinemas Aug 27th
Black Cultural Archives: Marketing Manager Salary £ 35,000 pro rata for 0.8FTE @bcaheritage
London Fashion Week presented by #Clearpay return 17 to 21 Sept encouraging a better world and Fashion Industry
Grammy award winning Beenie Man announces first UK show in over a decade at Yam Carnival
Diary Date: CHINEKE! ORCHESTRA AT THE 2021 BBC PROMS with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason celebrating great Black Composers @thekannehmasons @bbcproms @Chineke4Change
ONLINE: The Purpose of Power: An Evening with Alicia Garza
Screen and Film School Birmingham Adil Ray OBE Scholarship winner announced
Book now: join Ballet Black for screening debut Eightfold voiced Patron Thandiwe Newton
“Her Dark Materials” celebration of female creativity across art and tech features works include Nancy Cadogan, Helen Epega, and Emma Talbot @DGirlJay
BBC Proms celebrates return of live music over 44 days 2,000 plus musicians and 52 concerts: Chineke!, Clarke Peters, Kanneh-Mason siblings and Nubiya
STORMZY unveils first ever Madame Tussauds London figure
OPERA NORTH Mark Reopening With Five New Production: includes Femi Elufowoju’s “Rigoletto” first Black Director to run a Major Opera
Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant face new nemesis in quest to save reality in brand new video game, Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality
Review: ‘Zola’ a Viral Twitter Thread turns into riotous “chick flick” by Director Janicza Bravo
The Africa Institute: OPEN CALL FOR Okwui Enwezor, Fatema Merniss and Ali A. Mazru POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
World Premiere of Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall to Open 65th BFI London Film Festival
Whitechapel Gallery: Yoko Ono presents MEND PIECE for London
Louis Armstrong in A MAN CALLED ADAM | Born on this day 4 August 1901 | The 1966 Musical Drama is restored with Cicely Tyson & Ossie Davis
Review: Changing Destiny comes to Young Vic asking “where is your spirit”? Adapted from 4000-year-old African poem transcending time and culture
DIANE PAGE WINS 2021 JMK AWARD
SIGHT & SOUND Magazine Relaunches with Revamped Editorial and ‘FUTURE OF FILM’ Sept Issue includes Steve McQueen & Black Film Bulletin
Young Vic: First Look images Changing Destiny
Stanley Hall: James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket + Performances
Last Chance to Apply for the Access Bank ART X Prize 2021: bolstering careers of emerging Nigerian artists
Nadifa Mohamed, Anuk Arudpragasam, Sunjeev Sahota and Nathan Harris make 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist
Summer Movie picks:| Night of The Kings | Zola | The Suicide Squad | The Surrogate | How to Stop a Recurring Dream
Berlin: Folakunle Oshun presents Museum of Hope
Arab Britain: Jarda جاردا exhibition at People’s History Museum in Manchester open now
HRH The Duke of Cornwall, Patron of The Prince’s Countryside Fund attends a celebration of rural communities
Quick Chat with Norman Jay MBE as Kaleidoscope Festival comes to the legendary Ally Pally on 24th July
H&M AND NETFLIX’S SEX EDUCATION COLLABORATES ON A BACK-TO-CAMPUS INSPIRED COLLECTION
BBC Studios and Directors UK join forces to fund director mentorship scheme seeking under-represented voices
TRIBUTE TO GLEN YEARWOOD: A PEERLESS MEDIA PIONEER by Richard Adeshiyan
Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani are back on stage in HYMN by Lolita Chakrabarti directed by BLANCHE MCINTYRE 26 July – 13 Aug 21
Utopia Theatre: Visual Play in Production with Matthew Xia: fundraiser to #passthebaton to next generation of theatremakers from African diaspora
OLD – NIGHT’S VISION FEATURETTE : Watch Trailer
Windrush Caribbean Film Festival 23rd July -29th Aug: “The Big Interview” with Queen of The South Actor and director of “Wade in the Water” David Bianchi
Steve McQueen says New Cross fire tragedy should be taught in schools on his new three-part BBC documentary “Uprising” on story of fire and Brixton Riots: exclusive video clips here with McQueen
OPEN CALL British Council: MAKING MATTERS X LEVI’S DIGITAL RESIDENCY
LOUIS THEROUX JOINS EDINBURGH TV FESTIVAL LINE-UP AS NEW TALENT SEARCH INITIATIVE IS LAUNCHED
Review: Video Chat with Michelle Asante star of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s play “Notes on Grief: watch on demand 15 -18 July
73rd Emmy Awards Nominations Announced as Television Academy Celebrates Exceptional Talent Throughout the Industry
THEATRE PECKHAM PRESENTS …cake by Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 finalist babirye bukilwa
Interview with Rashid Rana on new exhibit EART and MINUS GLOCAL: Manchester International Festival
Extinct: Theatre Royal Stratford East
RCW and Knights Of free children’s publishing workshop returns for aspiring authors of colour, with new partner Megaphone
Chris Eubank’s son Sebastian dies in Dubai days before his 30th birthday
‘Black Skin: The Definitive Skincare Guide’ will be published in hardback, eBook and audio on 25th November 2021
Gabrielle BROOKS to play RITA and ARINZÉ KENE to play BOB MARLEY in World Premiere, directed by Clint DYER | First look images & video here.
BFI WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA SUMMIT POWERED BY JAGUAR
The Black British Business Awards and Weber Shandwick launch Project Rise to boost Black business representation in media
MANGROVE 9 & RACISM: NOT OUR PROBLEM + PANEL DISCUSSION – BLACK LENS FILM FESTIVAL
Three of ‘Stockwell Six’ Young Black Men framed by corrupt police officer cleared 50 years on
Video Interview with The Surrogate lead Jasmine Batchelor UK release 9th July: preview 7th July Genesis cinema
President of the Jury Spike Lee returns for the 74th Festival de Cannes July 6th to 17th July
“I Am a Girl from Africa” by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Netflix first trailer for The Harder They Fall and first look images here: based on real life Black figures from Wild West
A lotta of laughs: Join “funny girl” Amanda Wilkin’s one woman show “Shredding A Skin” at Soho Theatre: Live stream Thu 15 Jul 7.30pm
Manchester International Festival OPENS with Leading Global Artists | Topics & events include anti-Black racism – Portrait of Black Britain -play “Notes on Grief” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
First Look images of Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe directed by Ola Ince: Full cast list
Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned: he will be released today
TOLA PECKHAM LAUNCHES ROOFTOP ASIAN INSPIRED FOOD CONCEPT ‘LING LING’S
Bush Theatre: MANY STORIES. ONE SPACE.
Tributes to Menelik Shabazz the award winning Film Director and pioneer of contemporary Black British cinema dies age 67 in Zimbabwe
MPs to debate a petition relating to Black history and cultural diversity in the curriculum
The Queen, George Floyd among those featured in digital installation by NFT artist Andrea Bonaceto in collaboration with W1 Curates
Cultra e-Diary: Weekend Edit…Things to do now July and beyond: Rockets and Blue Lights, Keeping up with Kassandra: The Surrogate: MIF2021: Romeo & Juliet and more
Jay-Z commissions Derrick Adams NFT to be Auctioned by Sotheby’s
Derek Chauvin sentenced 22 1/2 years in prison for murder of George Floyd
Trinidad born legend Rudolph Walker awarded CBE by Prince Charles
Windrush Caribbean Film Festival is on!! First look guide to films and events at WCFF2021: new ‘Windrush Writing Competition’ 
Netflix To Have Almost 67M European Subscribers in 2021; To Add Almost 20M More By 2021
THE SURROGATE (PREVIEW SCREENING) + Q&A – ALT-AFRICA & Genesis Cinema July 7th 6:30pm: watch trailer here
Channel 4 sets out Black to Front off-screen commitments following report from The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity
Partner Event: Join the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival 2021 Media Launch today this Windrush Day Live online
Museum of London acquires ensemble inspired by the creativity of the Windrush generation
Review: Miranda Cromwell’s AND BREATHE… breathes life into post lockdown theatre: centring on loss and family with a Yoruba flavour
JMK Victoria Wood Bursaries launch two new Bursaries for Theatre Directors: receive mentorship from Roy Alexander Weise and Maria Crocker
Interview with Kay Akinwunmi, Founder of Fintech start-up Zazuu
Keeping up with Kassandra | Watch LIVE Theatre Online | 18 – 27 June
Bernie Grant Arts Centre Reopens with Celebrations of Black British Culture
The 12th London Indian Film Festival celebrates  Great British Asian filmmakers
Apple TV+ first look season two of NAACP Image Award-winning series “Truth Be Told” stars Octavia Spencer and Kate Hudson
THEATRE PECKHAM PRESENTS ….cake
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: Quick Chat with Isabel Adomakoh Young ahead of Romeo & Juliet
National Museum of African American History and Culture Observes #Juneteenth With All-Day Virtual Programming
Peckham Platform Announce new Artistic Director
SheCAN Biz Directory Interview: Black Wall Street London Founder NATASHA VIGILLE
National Theatre announce new programme and new campaign National Theatre Together
Cast for Notes on Grief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s reflection on family, love and loss Manchester International Festival
Interview with Solange Urdang co-Founder The International Black British Theatre and Film Directory by Karina H Maynard
Sheffield Doc Fest: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, Reframing Our Desires, Right Time on the Radio & More
48 drawings all photographed in different spectrums in book JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT HEY HEY HEY!
ALMEIDA THEATRE: EXCITING OFFER: WIN TICKETS to AND BREATHE… BY YOMI ṢODE
AT&T 2021 Tribeca Festival 20th anniversary opens with world premiere “In the Heights”
AT&T Presents: UNTOLD STORIES names Nardeep Khurmi winner of $1 MILLION PRIZE at Tribeca Festival Event
Talking to Obi Emelonye Director and Writer of new biopic Badamasi
To mark 70 anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention UK for UNHCR launches the ‘Refugee Dictionary’
Soho Theatre: Interview with Amanda Wilkin star and writer of Shedding A Skin
Actor Ivanno Jeremiah talks on new play Constellations by Nick Payne
Tonight 7pm Countdown to Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards 2021: Tom Allen and AJ Odudu to host