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Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare

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TelevisionYes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should. It will open everyone’s eyes to the segregated world of dating An ex-boyfriend once told me that most of his friends didn’t date black women because they didn’t find them attractive. When I got upset, he was confused. After we broke up and I took to Tinder for the first time, my inbox was suddenly brimming with messages from men fetishising me for my race. Read More...

Lithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrixs original foxy lady | Jimi Hendrix

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The ObserverJimi HendrixInterviewLithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrix’s original ‘foxy lady’Chris CampionSam Cooke, Sly Stone and Little Willie fought for her attention. Jimi Hendrix loved her so much he wrote songs about her. In a rare interview Lithofayne Pridgon tells Chris Campion the unvarnished story of Harlem’s wildest music scene – and how she came to be Hendrix’s greatest muse Never been kissed until she met “Fever” singer Little Willie John. Seduced by Sam Cooke at only 16. Read More...

The week in audio: Lights Out: Dust; The Bakersfield Three; Heirs of Enslavement review

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Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radioRadioReviewCan it be true that Radio 4 is axing the brilliant Lights Out? Elsewhere, Olivia LaVoice joins the dots between three murders in a gripping true crime podcast. Plus, a hit-and-miss look at the legacy of slavery Lights Out: Dust (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds The Bakersfield Three (Casefile Presents) Heirs of Enslavement (Persephonica) About halfway through Dust, the final episode in this series of Lights Out, writer Andri Snær Magnason says this. Read More...