Black Lives Matter

The two London-based artists on why figurative painting speaks to our ‘shared humanity’ and how the personal is always political

Jamila Prowse talks to three spaces - HOME, la Sala and Quench - about resisting cultural hegemony and the need for foundational support, access and equity in the arts

The artist and curator discuss why nobody notices James II in Trafalgar Square and how abolition can be represented in a public space

The artist’s works may embody the ‘values’ of revolution, but heroine-worship of the mass blunts its struggle

A rarely seen documentary shows the UK's Black communities in the wake of two tragic incidences of police brutality towards unarmed Black mothers in 1985

The world demanded by Black Lives Matter is not the world in which Edward Colston belongs

Patriotic imagery and calls for ‘togetherness’ distract from grass-roots demands for systemic change

A new book by Amnesty International documents how protest posters have changed throughout history

Black Lives Matter Arts+Culture has been launched in a bid to promote African American artists ‘changing the world’

Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter) is raised over Randall’s Island Park ahead of Frieze New York 2018

With the arrival of the first superhero film to feature a black lead since 1998's Blade, a reading list on black comic-book culture

Black Lives Matter, the Chilcot report, music and violence: what to read this weekend