Tag Archives: race

It seems like a strange concept, right? Objects like clothing, make up and shoes shouldn't have anything to do with race, and yet, if there's anything I've learnt in my English Literature degree it has to be that a shoe is never just a shoe. 

The truth spoken in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop is as relevant now, if not more so, as it was when it first premiered nearly ten years ago. The play is a fictional adaptation of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s final night on earth, before his assassination on 4th April 1968.

Spike Lee has never been one to shy away from controversy – both through his own personal antics and through his unapologetic approach to the portrayal of American race relations in his art, Lee is always a passionate and intriguing storyteller.

Get into the holiday spirit tomorrow by running for charity!