The dub poet and author of collections including Talking Turkeys has died of a brain tumour

A crowd at a Grenfell remembrance event cheered as the Tube driver stopped his train, beeped his horn and waved a green banner in solidarity.

Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Sage Willoughby and Jake Skuse found not guilty over act of public dissent during Bristol protest

Tenants to pay lower social rents after campaign against corporate landlords at Custom House and Canning Town in Newham

On Martinique and Guadeloupe a pesticide has poisoned the soil and water and caused many cases of prostate cancer.

Nawal El Saadawi, who has died at 89, drew outrage and admiration in her conservative home country.

Françoise Vergès discusses decolonial feminism, free expression, Reunion and white feminism.

Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered with

Zanzibari novelist becomes first black African writer in 35 years to win prestigious award

From ‘underlying health conditions’ to ‘suicide by cop’, structural racism has a vocabulary, says academic Patricia Williams

British Museum and Pitt Rivers under pressure to hand back sculptures looted from Nigeria

Why aren’t people more angry? The Brexit vote showed that plenty of them are. But perhaps it expressed that other...

Wilson, who was nearly deported in 2017, delivered a petition to Downing Street last month

Lord chief justice expresses ‘regret that it has taken so long for injustice to be remedied’

Families of 72 victims of tower block blaze will mark third anniversary of blaze this weekend

Burning an Illusion director and founder of Black Filmmaker Magazine died while working on a new film in Zimbabwe

Europe should greet migrants with compassion rather than barbed wire and the British government is "rather nasty" about those who seek asylum, said Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the...

Great estates are among the country’s treasures. But their connections to slavery and colonialism are forcing visitors to reckon with myths they may not want to abandon.

Gillian Rose: To be a philosopher you need three things. This quote from philosopher Gillian Rose is perhaps her most famous

'We'll stay as long as it takes'

Picador has signed Time Come, the first prose selection by poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.

In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Margaret Thatcher’s friendship with Chile’s dictator and how Labour helped him evade justice for crimes against humanity.

The Mangrove Nine features the aftermath of a Notting Hill protest against Police Harassment which culminated in the arrest of nine people including a young ...

Mark Fisher: With news that suicides among older men are rising, it makes no sense to deny links between depression and economic insecurity

Peter Fryer is best-known for writing Staying Power which is about Black communities in Britain and race relations A former Highgate resident has been ho

Democracy itself will have to be reinvented in the age of planetary crises, the philosopher Achille Mbembe argues. We need a new generation of rights that do not depend on the nation-state.

The director’s ambitious anthology series for Amazon and the BBC is his first film work about Black life in Britain. “I needed to understand myself, where I came from,” he said.

The author whose politics were rooted in anti-racism defined achievement on her own terms

In his poetry and prose, Primo Levi refuses to regard the crimes of the Holocaust with any fascination, and instead focuses on what it means to be human. The Beloved author celebrates the Jewish...

Group beams huge projections on high-rises to highlight fire safety crisis

The JRB's Academic Editor Simon van Schalkwyk spoke to UK academic, historian and philosopher Paul Gilroy, who was in Johannesburg recently for a conference at the Wits Institute for Social and...

Frank Bowling has been knighted by the Queen of England as part of her birthday honors list.

Obituary: bell hooks, a Hopkinsville native who went on to an international career as an author, critic, feminist and public intellectual, died on Dec. 15 at her home in Berea. She was 69.