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Somali-born British Olympic boxer Ramla Ali is the subject of a new biopic, In the Shadows, directed by Anthony Wonke and starring Top Boy actor Jasmine Jobson, which follows her journey from fleeing the Somali civil war to the Tokyo Olympics.
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The Guardian's Long Wave newsletter, which covers Black and diaspora stories, marks its second anniversary with a selection of favourite editions from the past year. The team notes it has grown into a large community of engaged readers.
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Black British novelist Zadie Smith told Dua Lipa at the Southbank Centre's London literature festival that inequality has made culture clashes feel 'existential'. She blamed the demise of Britain's welfare system and housing struggles for deeper divisions.
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British singer Raye has won the 2026 Mercury prize for her second studio album, This Music May Contain Hope, a 73-minute record spanning big band jazz, power balladry and funk. The win follows her record-breaking Brit awards success.
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Sacha Baron Cohen is reviving his Ali G character more than two decades after Ali G Indahouse, prompting debate over whether the character is outdated.
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A new biography recounts the life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, born Àìná, who was captured by an African king and presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle as a 'diplomatic gift' aged seven. Her descendant Bayo Randle welcomes the book; Victoria funded her education, approved her marriage and was godmother to her eldest daughter.
Read full story ↗Jamaica-born author Marlon James is shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize for his novel The Disappearers, with the winner to be announced in London on November 9. A win would be his second Booker Prize.
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Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write his short story The Blue Fighter, which won the Caine prize for African writers on 6 October, after an Atlantic article said software flagged it as almost entirely AI-generated.
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British rapper Tinie Tempah has said he will finally visit Scunthorpe, 16 years after referencing never having been there in his number one hit Pass Out. The decision followed a fan campaign led by resident Ben Johns, who carried a cardboard cutout of the artist around the town.
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A conference will examine the legacy of Naseem Khan's 1976 report The Arts Britain Ignores, which highlighted the exclusion of minority ethnic artists and argued for a pluralistic British culture. Fifty years on, the question of who counts as British in the arts remains contested.
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Guardian review of In the Shadows, a biopic of British-Somali boxer Ramla Ali, who came to the UK as a refugee from the Somali civil war and boxed for Somalia at the 2021 Olympics. Jasmine Jobson stars, with Finn Cole and Gershwyn Eustache Jr in supporting roles.
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The Guardian's Long Wave newsletter explores how Black communities worldwide use large, culturally specific vocabularies to describe race and complexion, citing terms such as 'green', 'yellow', 'blue' and 'wheat' used by tribes in parts of Sudan.
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A Guardian comment piece argues that the catch-all label 'Afrobeats' flattens the diversity of African music, citing Tyla's 2024 MTV VMA win for amapiano hit 'Water' and objections from artists including Tems, Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido.
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This Morning presenter Alison Hammond has returned home from hospital after leaving Friday's show, saying she believes she suffered a panic attack.
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Obituary of John Iliffe, pioneering historian of Africa who died aged 87, whose work including The African Poor: A History (1987) won the African Studies Association's Herskovits prize and centred African testimonies.
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British singer Olivia Dean's record label is being sued over alleged similarities between her song 'I've Seen It' and Bill Withers' classic 'Just The Two of Us'.
Read full story ↗The Oxford English Dictionary has added more than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean, including 'vex money' and 'bimpert', a Bermudian term for a stupid or foolish person.
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Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 68, has been charged with two further offences: indecently assaulting a girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991 and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in 2004. He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on a date to be fixed.
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