Mrs Mandela is the compelling BBC biopic based on Winnie Mandela starring Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo as Winnie and David Harewood as Nelson. In this programme we get to meet the woman behind the Icon.Everyone knows the story of...
We are two 18-year-old reporters for Write Here, Right Now, a youth reporting project funded by UKaid for the Department for International Development, and last month we travelled to the Danish capital, Copenhagen, for the first few days of...
The Urban uber designer Patrick Kevin, recently re-launched his fashion website with a catwalk show and soiree at the Black Grape Gastro Bar. The show was set to start at 8pm but of course fashion is never on...
Ever wondered how 29 year-old Tiny Iron exploded onto the scene with his 24 inch muscles? Well it all started when he was in a club and Vinnie Jones said “Fancy doin a movie?” Tiny’s reply? “Hell yeah!” And a...
“Where we grew up we could have ended up doing anything, but luckily our parents kept us on the straight and narrow,” says Adio Marchant one of Manchester-born Kid British.In the group he’s accompanied by school friends James Mayer, Simeon...
Since his debut solo LP went platinum in 1995, Raekwon The Chef has solidified his place as a certified rap legend having a career that stretches back as far as Jay-Z, Nas and the Notorious BIG. Now with the...
On 5th December 2009, 21 talented individuals from London and the West Midlands participated in a live talent show at the prestigious ITV centre in Central London as part of ABi's ROOTS & ROUTES European initiative.The acts were chosen...
It’s that time of year again when, after two weeks of festive indulgence, thoughts turn to shifting those extra pounds. To help everyone kick-start their exercise regimes this January, PRS for Music has today released the most played...
Make-up artist Alex Box showcases ground-breaking talent with a strong alternative voice. Since her degree show at the Chelsea College of Art where she exhibited installation art exploring the relationship between the body and the environment and later explored...
Sean Kingston’s rise to fame is a tale fit to rival Cinderella’s own. The Jamaican born singer had his world torn apart at just 13 when both his mother and sister were charged with identity fraud and sentenced to...
Flavour hails the multi-tasking business woman and designer Maame Baryeh.From your debut collection to the latest, how do you feel you have grown as a designer? I think I quite literally have been on a journey of self discovery. I...
At the dawn of a new decade, we have arrived at a moment unlike any other in the history of our beautiful nation. We have endured the brutality of slavery, we have survived the pain of Jim Crow and...
After the success of the massive funky smash ‘In The Air’ ft Katie Pearl, production duo Perempay & Dee are ready to tear down the raves this coming holiday season. Graced by the return of award winning UK artist...
They say that life is a constant learning process and Tinchy learned a good lesson this year. That you can be the best but you may not necessarily get the recognition for it as he found out when...
The film, featuring a black princess, is released in the US this weekend under the most intense scrutiny of any children’s film in history. It began in the Promised Land. Well, not the Promised Land, but the estate of the...
Limited £10 tickets available for all other performances, please check www.barbican.org.uk/piedpiper for details. Join the hip-hop dance revolution as East London’s largest and most innovative street dance troupe, Boy Blue Entertainment, take to the Barbican stage. Pied Piper is...
‘Hero’ featuring Cleo Sol is DaVinChe’s amazing new track following hot on the heels of the huge ‘Rider’ mixtape which featured Tinie Tempah, Tinchy Stryder and Wretch 32.A powerful bass driven beat and DaVinChe’s trademark clever strings combine with...
Lethal B tells us all about swaggizzle style, his rowdy O2 Academy tour and how he is giving back to the ladiesSo today you’re rocking this whole old Hollywood look, have you worn anything like this before? Yeah, I have...
Former Flavour cover girl Alexandra Burke and looking sexier than ever in her new video Broken Heels taken from her album Overcome. The single is released on January 11th and sees the X-Factor winner donning American football attire and...
If like most of us, the Christmas holidays mean a month of over indulgence followed by a full January detox and new fitness regime... Well, why not prepare for the ‘season to be jolly’ with an early New...
Finishing that all important party look with strip eye lash extensions is on trend for this seasonWhy not follow our top application tipsAlways make sure the eye lashes and surrounding skin is free from oil, and pick the lashes...
This week Apple's iTunes released Rewind 2009, its lists of the year's best and best-selling media. Kings of Leon's "Only by the Night" was the best-selling album and also named best album of the year. Black Eyed Peas' "Boom...
Give the gift of Natural Beauty with Purity mineral eyeshadows.At just £3.50 each they make an ideal Christmas stocking filler for the makeup addict in your life!Regular Purity users are raving about the colours, the favourites being classic Taupe,...
The Stewarton Fund Charity Fashion Show held on November 14th at Karibu Education Centre, Brixton was a roaring success raising £4,224.50 (565,373.15 JMD) to aid an impoverished nursery school in Clarendon, Jamaica called the Stewarton Early Childhood Centre.Beautiful models...
Peachy Pink – a new range of slimming and cellulite combating underwear is taking the UK by storm since the makers had 50 real women keen to beat their cellulite march through the streets of London.The clinically proven slimming...
Hailed as ‘the UK's fastest growing innovative Black theatre company’, Tell Tarra latest production tells the story of Cornellius (Aymer), a newly retired Jamaican who’s keen to return to the country of his birth. Having assumed his wife Precious...
VV Brown recently headlined the Young Voices Concert in the 02 where school children were given the opportunity to sing alongside her on stage. “It’s nice to be a part of something where you are giving back to the...
Griminal is the hottest new grime artist on the scene. He is looking very dapper, dressed old Hollywood style for his Flavour Magazine shoot. Griminal takes five from posing to answer some questionsYou are looking very dapper, real smooth….are...
Hollywood stunners Tamala Jones and 50 Cent's ex Vivica Fox join the rapper to feature in his new video Do You Think About Me, which see's Miss Fox go crazy when she think's that he's forgotten about her. What...
As X-Factor draws to a close, we catch up with the finalists Joe McElderry, Stacey Solomon and Olly Murs, and the most feared judges in England to find out what this weekends final holds in store.This years X Factor...