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Seth Patrick Bryan was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, on February 25, 2003, and died on December 4, 2023 in Kherson, Ukraine. He was the son of Patrick Bry

The Justice Department unsealed charges Monday against a retired ambassador, accusing him of being a "clandestine agent" for decades - allegedly betraying his country by acting on behalf of Cuba's sp...

WOW - Women of the World has announced headliners for its 2022 London Festival, which returns to the Southbank Centre from 11-13 March.

Short stories by black authors collected by Bernardine Evaristo will be available from "vending machines" in Canary Wharf in Black History Month (BHM).  

Bernardine Evaristo has joined forces with Canary Wharf to make stories from up and coming black authors available to thousands of people

Author teams up with Canary Wharf to distribute short works by five writers during Black History Month

th century expedition to discover the shape of the world. The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton, shares the challenges and hilarity of working with animals revealed in his new book All Creatures, and the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, will be reading from his latest collection. On the lighter side, the programme includes several comedians. Writer and former Bake Off presenter, The Best Things, and David Baddiel talks to Edward Stourton about the failures of identity politics outlined in his ne...

Bocas celebrates Black Britain culture CLR James - EIGHTY-FIVE years after the UK publication of the ground-breaking Minty Alley, the only novel by CLR James, at a time when Caribbean literature is once again seizing the attention of British audiences, the Bocas Lit Fest has joined forces with British organisations to celebrate Black British culture. The Bocas Lit Fest, Your Local Arena and Penguin Books UK, will host a week-long programme (March 8-13), of literature, film and music, exploring...

Eighty-five years after the UK publication of the ground-breaking Minty Alley, the only novel by CLR James, at a time when Caribbean literature is once again seizing the attention of British audiences, the Bocas Lit Fest has joined forces with British organisations to celebrate Black British culture. As mentioned below, the full program is available, free of charge, from March 8 to 13 on the Bocas Lit Fest website. The Bocas Lit Fest, Your Local Arena and Penguin Books UK, will host a week-lon...

In the wake of Black Lives Matter comes Black Britain: Writing Back, a series of six ground-breaking novels by overlooked, or forgotten black British writers. Selected by playwright and novelist Bernardine Evaristo who was co-winner of the Booker prize in 2019 for Girl, Woman, Other, this is a timely venture. It is also long overdue. Among Black Lives Matter’s priorities was to protest the airbrushing of black and ethnic minority voices from far distant and recent history, and Evaristo’s ...