Etiqueta: roots
House music had its Black roots ripped up – now Drake and Beyoncé are reclaiming them
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Esta semana, Drake treated fans to a surprise drop of his new album Honestly, No importa. Its release, just nine months after his last record, Certified Lover Boy, received lukewarm reviews from critics, was unexpected. ...
America is steeped in violence. And the roots of that violence go deep
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After an 18-year-old gunman shot and killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, President Biden took to the airwaves to address the nation in a speech full of sorrow and anger....
‘We’ve been offered a myopic view of history’: folk singer Leyla McCalla untangles Haiti’s complex roots
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Leyla McCalla’s memories of Haiti fall somewhere in the hazy space between dream and reality, in the way so many childhood recollections do. She can still hear the goats that would gather outside her grandmother’s hou...
‘I feel very at home’: the UK schools keeping children in touch with their global roots
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Growing up, every Saturday morning while my school friends were out shopping, going to drama school or learning to dive at the local swimming pool, I would put on my shalwar kameez and head to my mosque’s weekend scho...
West Indies 1-0 Inglaterra: player ratings for Joe Root’s defeated tourists
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Joe Root: 289 carreras, promedio 48; one wicket, promedio 69; four catches By the hideous denouement, Root’s trademark busyness with the bat required an almost visible force of will; the words he delivered in interviews sai...
Can you mascara to touch up your roots?
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The hack Using mascara to touch up your roots in between salon visits. The promise Having a salon colour can cost a small fortune, particularly when you have block colour and just need your roots touching up. If you h...
NHS is in crisis but the roots go much further back than Omicron
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Back in October Sajid Javid insisted: “We don’t believe that the pressures currently faced by the NHS are unsustainable.” It was a statement that did not age well. It led to snorts of derision from senior doctors and ...
Don’t mention Love Island! The reality TV stars shunning their roots
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Broadly speaking, there are now two types of reality TV star gracing screens. There are those who exist only within the confines of the genre, suspended in a Groundhog Day cycle as they jump from show to show until th...
‘Secret piety’: new show reveals Andy Warhol’s Catholic roots
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He is celebrated for his Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s Soup prints, legendary parties, proud queerness and worship of celebrity. But Andy Warhol was raised by a devout Catholic mother with whom he prayed daily through...
You’re betraying your Quaker roots: fury at Clarks’ ‘fire and rehire’ plan
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Warehouse workers for Clarks have accused the 200-year-old shoemaker of betraying its philanthropic roots by threatening them with the sack if they don’t accept significant pay cuts. Más que 100 staff in Clarks’ mai...
Still game: Edinburgh’s 2021 fringe is a return to the festival’s roots
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On the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. En esta época el pasado año, he and his photographer brother Peter took a set of pictures of Edinburgh festival venues that were shut becau...
The Guardian view on intercommunal violence in Israel: a dangerous development with deep roots
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The horror unfolding in the Middle East is both old and new. There is a terrible familiarity to the destruction the Israeli state is raining down upon Gaza, and the lethal missiles fired from the Strip by Palestinian ...
Cima 10 books about roots
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When I was a child, my father told me stories about his childhood in Ghana’s Ashanti region. Y, because he knew that I wouldn’t learn much about Africa in my primary schools in Europe, he was determined to instruct ...