Author Daphne

The FAB thing about being a dancer for me is the feeling it gives me. I'm at my happiest when I'm dancing, I can't help but move to a good piece of music and I love the way the combination of music and dance...

The funkier side of hip hop, not many people would think of funk that way- or at least I didn't anyway. The Intelligent Movement festival ended a four-day celebration of hip hop culture with a celebration of...

"When people fail to define their culture or are prevented from defining their culture, liberties are taken," said MOBO award-winning hip hop artist Akala speaking at the Intelligent movement festival....

"I couldn't define what hip hop means to me. I listen to such a broad range of music, but I grew up listening to hip hop music. Obviously as I got older I branched out more. I think hip hop represents what...

And what a journey it was. MOBO award-winning UK hip hop artist Akala and West African multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Sona Jobarteh showed us a glimpse of hip hop history and its unexpected...

Weaves, skin lightening, rhinoplasty and now changing the colour of your eyes? A woman is more often than not judged by her beauty. Beauty in the Western world is often defined by the European look, blonde...

We all know that religion and faith is a huge part of black culture. But part of me wonders how much of this is actually religion and how much is tradition......

The biggest African and Ghanaian family event is about to hit the UK. Anansekrom, the Premier African Cultural Extravaganza is taking place Saturday 16th July at Morden Hall Park, London....

With the release of the film The Help there have been complaints about the fact that a white woman wrote about black fictional characters, and the fact that a white man directed said characters in the film...

A recent study has shown that  "rom-coms" have a damaging psychological effect on woman's view of romance. Apparently women find it hard to distinguish fantasy from reality and miss out on Mr. Right because...

On his promotion tour for the new Transformers 3 film Tyrese made a couple comment on his radio show about polygamy. In his opinion men should have more than one woman.  ...

I came across this story on Voice Online. It was a blog post about a recent story of  a woman who had died after having sex with a dog... I'll let that simmer for a bit...  ...

Michele Bachmann, a Grand Old Party (Republican) presidential hopeful made, in my opinion, quite an offensive comment. But she did invoke a question in me, have two-parent homes in the black community become a...

The drought in East Africa has aroused leading British aid agencies to launch an appeal to help the millions of people affected. However when reading about this on The Sun website I noticed that many comments...

A recent reports shows that black children are "suffering in silence" when it comes to mental health issues. They're being failed by mental health services because of the lack of information and support...