This is a return to form for a rapper who has never subscribed to "gangsta" hip hop, preferring more socially-conscious lyrics. On Supermagic he declares, "There has to be a change, a better world has to be built – and the only way it is going to be built is with extreme methods."
The swirling, hypnotic sound of Touareg rock band Tinariwen returns on their fourth album Imidiwan (which means "companions").
Ray’s husband has left just as Christmas approaches, taking the down-payment on their new house with him.
The popular artist Banksy has brought together over 100 pieces of work at an exhibition in Bristol. Banksy versus Bristol Museum sees him "remixing" the site in his own subversive manner. The exhibition is on until 31 August.
At 4am on 24 May 1940 machine gun bullets tore through the bedroom where the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia were sleeping.
British-Iraqi rapper Lowkey penned this hard‑hitting assault on the British National Party (BNP) in response to their election to the European parliament.
In 1974 a roster of the top soul acts in the US travelled to Kinshasa, Zaire, (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to play a three-day concert timed to coincide with Muhammad Ali’s world championship challenge to George Foreman.
Pub landlord Paddy has barred the local gangster’s son and so put his life in danger.
If Dickens was around today what social issues would he be writing about? If he were a children’s author would he shy away from the controversial subjects or tackle them head on?
Paolo Pasolini was a dissident communist, expelled from the Italian Communist Party because of his sexuality.
This new pamphlet looks at the "special relationship" between the US and Britain, which has defined the imperialist order over the last 50 years.
Durham miner Norman Strike kept a diary of his life during the 1984‑5 strike.
