Lemn Sissay
Born in Wigan in 1967 to a mother who moved to Lancashire from Ethiopia the previous year, Sissay was placed directly into foster care and raised by a family…
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Born in Wigan in 1967 to a mother who moved to Lancashire from Ethiopia the previous year, Sissay was placed directly into foster care and raised by a family…
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The artist and activist Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham to Caribbean parents. His mother, a Jamaican Windrush immigrant, recalls Zephaniah and his twin sister’s date of birth…
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In a series of seven sculptures created by abstract expressionist artiste D-Empress Dianne Regisford, the multi-sensory performance installation, ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ is at once an incantation, a lament and an invocationRead More…