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Contents
Editor’s Welcome — Pawlet Brookes MBE

Insight: Black Classics
50 Years after The Arts Britain Ignores report: What has Changed? — Tyrone Huggins
Ragamuffin: Breaking the Chains of Black British Theatre — Amani Naphtali
A Journey in Sound: Composing across Cultures, Histories and Communities — Philip Herbert
Black Voices in Opera — Alison Buchanan
Black Theatre — Felix Cross MBE

Launchpad
Reimagining Tomorrow — Sharon Singleton
Love, Afterwards — Sabina Silver
WATER: A Collaborative Inquiry into Embodiment and Identity — Francis Augusto

Arts and Culture
Black Zine Fair, a Site of the Future — Caroline Elizabeth Johnson
The Art Collector — Julie Elizabeth
The Artist as Archivist: A Journey through Memory and Making — Christopher Rudd
Afrofuturism and Black Youth: How we Rebuild Black Art Education — Chanelle Patterson

Diasporic Dialogues
The Spaces and Gaps in Migrant Caribbean Lives — Jacqueline Bishop
Kaleidoscope: Creating Space to Celebrate the Mixed Experience — Yvon Guest
From Sorrel to Zobo: A Culinary Dialogue across the Black Atlantic — Lauren Wilmott
An Introduction: Windrush, Memory and The Long Arc of Black British History — Pawlet Brookes MBE
Two Jamaican Women: A Nineteenth Century Story — Christienna D Fryar

Yesterday and Tomorrow
The Invisible Made Visible: Caribbean Dance, African Retentions and the Erasure of Influence — Greta Mendez MBE
The Future has Ancient Roots — Angie Amra Anderson
The Body Remembers Forward: Dance, Soil, and the Attunement of Diasporic Futures — Yanique Hume
Physical Intervention for the Common Space: Reimagining Access through Dance in Uganda — Tebandeke Joseph

Hidden Histories
Black Well-Being in a World that never Stops — Nova Reid
Watch Us Lead: The Hidden Histories of Black Disabled People — Christopher Samuel
Changing Britain’s Health Story: A Life in Nursing, Equality and Public Health — Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu OM DBE

BlackInk New Writing Competition
Flow the Names the Sea Remembers — Stanley Péan
The Colour of Forgetting — Allan Mogunde
The Silent Latitude — Praise (Okunade) Ayowole

Spotlight
Travelling Whilst Black: Borders, Bias and the Question of Belonging — Pawlet Brookes MBE

2026 in Numbers
Calendar Highlights
Coming Soon

The Interview
Larry Achiampong

 

Cover Art: Sharon Singleton