Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

Press Release by Marion Vargaftig©

Chris Lamontagne, a 20 year old student from Westminster is celebrating after news that he has won two prestigious awards at the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival, an international festival with awards established by the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC).

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"I am in London all the time and today I'm gonna say that the racial issues in the UK are disgusting." Kelis

African-American singer Kelis is furious with Britain after saying that a man called her “Kunta Kinte”, during an argument over queue jumping at an airport and she said that Britain was “racially decades behind progression”, after posting the details on Twitter.

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Rapper Soulja Boy shamefully apologised for lyrics in one of his songs which criticised American soldiers and the FBI after music outlets run by the military threatened not to stock his new album.

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Press release by Debra (MTA Productions LTD)©

Most production companies who want to get a sitcom onto television follow a set path. Have an idea. Make a pilot. Pitch it. And keep on pitching it. Hopefully it will get picked up. But what happens if, like TV Producer and director Debra Odutuyo, it doesn’t get picked up even though you know you have a hit show on your hands and you have a hungry and waiting audience?

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Celebrity hairdresser James Brown

Black television presenter Ben Douglas was left furious when celebrity hairdresser James Brown referred to his female companion and himself as niggers in a drunken tirade at the Baftas.

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Press release by AMC©

The Asian Music Circuit (AMC) was created by the Arts Council in 1989 as a result of an internal inquiry in 1985 into the state of Asian music in the UK. Since there was an evident and clear demand but no available funding at that time, the Arts Council created the AMC and funded it on the recommendation of that inquiry, accepted by the Council itself. In a speech by the then General Secretary of the Arts Council at the launch of the AMC at the British Museum in 1989, he said that the seed had been sown and wished that from the ‘small acorn an oak tree would grow’. In his response, the Chairman of the AMC stated that the tree would certainly grow provided it was kept watered and sustained. That sustenance has now been removed for reasons which are flawed, subjective, ill-thought out, irrational, based on highly selective information, unfair and do not stand up to scrutiny.

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Press release by Clare Sambrook©

An explosive novel about the army that no publisher will touch while Britain is involved in bloody conflicts is being serialised free online.

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Rastamouse: Fighting crime and now public opinion.

It has become the biggest children’s show since the Teletubbies and now the most watched CBeebies show on the BBC’s iPlayer, Rastamouse, a Rastafarian mouse who fights crime in the community is at the centre of a race row after some viewers have referred to it as racist and others have even gone as far to say that it corrupts the English language.

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Fans of Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were shocked to see a picture of her in Elle Magazine where her skin tone appeared to be whiter leading to condemnation from fans and the actress alike according to her friends.

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Comedian Frankie Boyle

Channel 4 has been condemned after comedian Frankie Boyle used both the terms “Nigger” and “Paki” in his comedy programme Tramadol Nights.

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Naomi Campbell criticises fashion industry for racism against black model

Black supermodel Naomi Campbell has spoken out against racism in the fashion industry saying that advertisers were using the recession as an excuse to drop black models and that the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine in Australia was sacked for putting her face on the front cover.

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Mel Gibson

Actor Mel Gibson is at the centre of a race row after racist comments he made during an angry row with his wife was caught on tape by American website Radar Online.

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When African-American comedian Chris Rock was asked by his 5 year-old daughter why she had bad hair he was compelled to make a documentary about black hair delving into the million dollar black hair industry.

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The writer of Sex And The City 2 has denied that the portrayal of Muslims in the film is racist after scenes show the women make jokes about Muslim women wearing the niqab, a face veil, and encountering misogynist views from Muslim men.

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Siphiwo Ntshebe

South African opera tenor Siphiwo Ntshebe who was referred to as the ‘black Pavarotti’ has died at the age of 34 from meningitis weeks before he was due to sing at South Africa’s World Cup opening ceremony.

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David Harewood in The Mountaintop.

Black British actors have often had to go to America for success and good parts, however over the last few months British black actors have burst into the mainstream of London’s theatres and on television playing leading roles and finally getting the recognition they deserve in this country.

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Billy Sing

The Chinese-Australian community has criticised a television producer for casting a white actor to play the role of a Chinese-Australian war hero in a new TV drama.

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Dizzee Rascal would be bonkers to play James Bond

In the Belfast Telegraph today Grime music artist Dizzee Rascal came top in a poll to be the first black James Bond with 67 percent of the vote, however the Bond character is far from heroic and would be considered a terrorist by many people in the non-European world; Rascal would have to be bonkers to play such a role.

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Photography by Bill Cooper & Richard Bolton

Black, graceful and gliding across the stage like a swan swimming along the surface of the water, London’s first black ballet dancers, Ballet Black has mesmerised audiences right across the country for years and are now taking their art and success to the international stage.

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Katori Hall, the first black playwright to win the Laurence Olivier Award

Katori Hall, an African-American female became the first black playwright to win a Laurence Olivier Award yesterday for her play The Mountaintop.

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