The Latest Breaking News from Blackness

So RIP ‘totally tropical’ Lilt. In an age of authenticity, you were the fake dreadlocks of soft drinks

With cringey adverts and steel drums, it was marketed as a taste of the Caribbean and Blackness, but that approach couldn’t survive, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023

Falkirk Council plan to mothball primary school with just eight pupils

Next week's education committee will be asked to agree that a consultation on closing Blackness Primary should begin

Daily Record · Nov 2, 2022

Poet Amanda Gorman celebrates the gift of Blackness for Juneteenth

To mark the holiday, Gorman reads "Fury and Faith," a poem from Call Us What We Carry. She says her collection's title reflects how "we all can be vessels of both hurt and hope at the same time."

WEKU · Jun 17, 2022