These are some of the media recommendations we’ve made to each other over the past few years. We hope that you enjoy them.
Movies
Annick: Monkey Man by Dev Patel, Godzilla minus one by Takashi Yamazaki and Descendant by Margaret Brow
Music
Annick: ‘I’ve Felt All These Things’, album by Anna Leone
Lauren: Rose Royce – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Sai: SAULT
Podcasts
Annick: ‘Empire City: the Untold Origin Story of the NYPD’, by Chenrejai Kumanyik and ‘Mother Country Radicals’ by Zayd Dohrn
Sai: ‘The Watchdog’ by Lowkey and ‘Shrink the Box’
Books
Annick: How to say Babylon, by Safiya Sinclair; Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Any poetry by Louise Gluck
Lauren: Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan; Border Nation by Leah Cowan; Show Me The Bodies by Petter Apps; Revolting Prostitutes by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
Sai: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison; Marvellous Equations of the Dread; A Novel in Bass Riddim – Marcia Douglas; Kei Miller – The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
TV
Sai: Slow Horses
Lauren: The Walking Dead (first 6-7 seasons); Industry; The Wire
Theatre
Sai: Black Men Walking by Testament – play & book
Exhibition
Sai: Rohan Ayinde ‘Iwoyi’ @ Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music
Lauren: The Black vanguard – saatchi gallery