The Hibiscus Notes

There is a scene in Katori Hall's new play on broadway about Martin Luther King Jr which sees Angela Basset's character deliver a m...

Yes, I know the title of this post sounds absurd doesn't it but that's precisely what a black male author is suggesting in a recent...

Can I just say in my defence that I've resisted weighing in on the case against Dominique Strauss Kahn for some weeks now. The reason fo...

A friend of mine called last week to tell me she was just sat next to Oprah in a hotel restaurant somewhere in the English countryside. As ...

On 27th April 2011, Sierra Leone celebrated its 50th Independence anniversary and although the debate about what there is to celebrate still...

I've been trying to read a horrid little book (well not so little but very horrid) that was recommended by a colleague of mine as a back...

In a short piece written a couple of months ago for http://www.rollingout.com/ , Amir Shaw argued that reggae artist, Vybz Kartel’s horri...