The PASSAGES Series Pt. 2: African American Cultural Identity
Imani Ballard and Kayshon Paris, young adults from Newark, New Jersey, created PASSAGES, a video series focused on connecting and amplifying a global community…
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Melilla: Europe in Africa
By Ella Daniels Afropean’s Ella Daniels reports from the ground in Melilla, a Spanish outpost in Morocco, where the racialized reality shows the stark…
The Afropolitan Festival, 03.02.17- 05.02.17, Brussels
The Afropolitan Festival is three days of exceptional programming dedicated to Afropolitan art, creativity and state of mind, presented by BOZAR and its partners,…
Notes from a Swedish Summer
By Nina N. Yeboah One could spend an entire hour roaming the streets of Södermalm in search of a good pastry shop and come…
Midnight Love (Finale): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
The whole ‘Midnight Love’ album sounds like a haunted landscape when you walk around the place it was written, listening to it. You hear…
Midnight Love (Part 7): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Further along the colonnade was Cafe De Floride, an old haunt of Marvin’s where, according to one of the barmen he would always bring…
Midnight Love (Part 6): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Marvin also loved to jog by the beach, and the tour moved me to his favourite spot, and thoroughly into Leopold stomping ground. I…
Midnight Love (Part 5): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
For true art to appear, the artist has to disappear, detaching himself from ego and status, but also from the pressure to achieve anything…
Midnight Love (Part 4): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Having heard horror stories from England about Gaye’s cocaine use and erratic behaviour on tour (he’d frequently miss gigs and was even late for…
Midnight Love (Part 3): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
I made my way to the tourist information centre, where I was given headphones and an iPhone with a built-in app called ‘The Marvin…
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