Black Girlhood has been explored in various forms of media and entertainment, but it hasn’t always been consistent. When looking at the scope of black female representation in the coming of age genre, they are ...
Malorie Blackman’s award-winning cult novel, Noughts & Crosses, is finally receiving the sleek TV adaptation it deserves. A love story centring around an interracial couple in a time where mixed race relationships are forbidden, Sephy ...
Over the past few years, the Black Girl Magic movement has exploded onto our news feeds and across social media. Whilst most may think this is a step in the right direction and society is ...
Just last month, we all bore witness to one of the greatest performances to ever grace the BRITs stage. Winner of the British Album of the Year, Dave, took to the stage to deliver an ...
Over the past few years, being a dark-skinned woman has become a glorified trend. It wasn’t always this way, which is why it’s been an extremely humbling experience. I am a young, confident woman with ...
If you ask a colleague today to name a black activist doing humanitarian work, or a black painter in the arts sector, or a female black CEO – chances are they’d struggle to respond. Ask ...
“If you were born in one place, grew up in another, but now live somewhere completely different, where are you from? Tricky one. Perhaps, a better question is not where are you from, but where ...
A bold statement, huh? This was the general response I got from my friends and family after explaining what my first LAPP article would be about. As a first generation immigrant in the UK, I ...
The world we live in is a melting pot; full of individuals from different ethnicities, with a wide variation of body types, of all ages and from all walks of life. One thing we all ...