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Artist blends black history into steel sculptures

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Melvin Edwards and his sculpture in 1963 "fragment dimension".

Leslie King-Hammond first met Melvin Edwards when he was a visiting artist at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The young graduate school director was immediately attracted to him. Although few other artists she knew had spent time studying their craft in Africa, Edwards had apprenticed with a sculptor in Nigeria. His abstract steel sculptures … Read more

ITV ‘Believe Me’: Daniel Mays talks about the cost of playing ‘black taxi rapist’, screenwriter Jeff Pope focuses on victim, not predator

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ITV 'Believe Me': Daniel Mays talks about the cost of playing 'black taxi rapist', screenwriter Jeff Pope focuses on victim, not predator

ITV’s upcoming drama believe me Britain’s established and up-and-coming stars come together to tell harrowing British stories. Amy Ffionn Edwards (slow horse, peaky blinders, Mr. Burton), Asia Shah (Raised by Wolves, Bloods, Beast Must Die) and Miriam Pesce (industry) This is a special 4-episode series co-starring Daniel Mays (Job details, Death, A Thousand Blows, Moonflower … Read more