I had the pleasure of interviewing upcoming spoken word, actor and role model Solomon Adams. Solomon, I first met at a music video shoot for an artist "Conrad Kira". The track was called "Robot". Solomon is anything, but a robot, he is a man full of autonomy, drive, desire and dedication to his craft. I am happy I had the honour to interview a stellar young man who is navigating the world around him. ------Solomon Introduce yourself? I'm Solomon Adams. A blessed soul dancing within an exceptional body. ------What inspires you? Love, life, passion, great art and the presence of people who keep on moving forward when life throws its jabs, hooks and uppercuts and who continue to create authentically and express themselves wholeheartedly. -----What inspired your EP? I've always been surrounded by poetry. My Mum, (a published/performance poet) would bring me up on stage with her at an earlier age to play the djembe drum to accentuate certain elements of her p...
By Shaun Flores For my interview, I wanted to do something different. It’s a political piece I would pitch to the Guardian in their race/ culture section. I spoke to a good friend of mine Brandon Campbell. He is a school teacher, passionate about education and hopes to be a history teacher someday. In my interview with him, we spoke of the world and identity politics. A current phenomenon that is proving to be one associated deeply with the liberal left. Introduce yourself, who are you? I am Brandon lee Campbell, I graduated in education, I am now a teacher at a school in Newham. I am from south-east London Stratford. I have been friends with Shaun for around 2 years now and the political conversations never stop you can rest assured of that. What do you think of left-wing politics right now? I think left-wing politics is in a diabolical state of affairs right now. I couldn’t imagine being part of the left when they are becoming more authoritarian in their speech. They want to police ...
It’s us the infamous fried chicken eaters! “But Shaun how are you vegan? I know you black people love fried chicken?” such a lazy mainstream commercial stereotype as if we only eat chicken. As if our palettes only know the taste of another animal died at the merciless hands of the oppressor. The meat and dairy trades indefinitely is another form of oppression, another form of slavery and even more so mirroring the holocaust. Animal’s very life is unfortunately decided from the minute they are born, and the extermination date predestined. They act as if black people are unable to be vegan because we are beasts and animals. Some funny pictures attached only normalizing the every present and continuously growing stereotypes of our people further perpetuated in contemporary society. Now upon becoming recently vegan, I have heard many silly comments such as: “without meat your going to grow a vagina”, well I understand that naïve and ignorant ...
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