British East Asian Artists cheer on Somi Guha’s Top Gear racism complaint & BBC apology

BRITISH EAST ASIAN ARTISTS PRESS RELEASE 23RD APRIL 2014 British East Asian Artists congratulate Somi Guha for winning an apology from the BBC over racism Doubts remain about contradictory BBC statement The British East Asian Artists group (BEAA) are supporting actor Somi Guha’s formal complaint to the BBC for the broadcast of racist material and […]

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Women of the Blues on today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, 5pm

Bessie Smith, “Empress of the Blues” Today live at 5pm on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, Charles Shaar Murray concludes his Guide to the Blues with Part 3, The Women of the Blues. Presented by Anna Chen with Charles Shaar Murray. Guest: Sarah Gillespie. Today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge of the series wraps

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China’s science and cultural contributions on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance FM. Live 5pm Tuesday.

Tomorrow live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge looks at China’s cultural and scientific contributions and inventions.  Guests: Elizabeth Lawrence and Paul Anderson. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. Tomorrow’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge is themed around China’s cultural and scientific contributions to the west from inventions such as

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British East Asian Artists and Diaspora music take the diversity debate into Parliament

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) artists demand representation that reflects British Society  Last February, the British East Asian Artists wrote an open letter to broadcasters and culture minister Ed Vaizey about the pitiful almost non-existent representation of east Asians in the media despite being the third largest minority in Britain. Vaizey, who had been

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Laurie Penny excludes woman of colour from debate about representation of women of colour

Pic: Anna and Laurie when we were both shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. (Neither of us won.)  Eurasia? Or Erasure. The misuse of agenda: politics as entertainment and a schtick to beat up the upstarts. Was it something I said? In an argument about the exclusion of women of colour from the British left, politics,

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