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Can 'Underground' Break Free of the Slave Narrative's Traditional Tropes?
'Underground' is a well-worn addition to the suddenly crowded genre of slave narrative.
Retracing the Roots of British Sound System Culture
We spoke to reggae historian John Masouri ahead of a new photo exhibition looking back on ska, dub, calypso, and dancehall sound systems in the UK.
Riots, Raves, and Underground Blues Parties: Stories from a Carnival Soundsystem Original
Basil Jarvis left the Caribbean for West London 50 years ago, and has blasted soca sounds onto the streets of Notting Hill every year since.
PREMIERE: Dicey Hollow's Meditative and Beautifully Cinematic Video for "Silver and Sand"
Allow yourself a moment's pause, wouldya? That's what actor Josh Hartnett and director/producer Brody Baker did when they conceived this video.
Rooted: Climbing Lebanon
VICE Sports captures professional climber Sam Elias’ journey to Lebanon as he explores the climbing potential in the country while discovering his family roots.
Getting Back to Basics at a Primitivist School
At ROOTS, you can learn how to make a longbow the way our premodern ancestors did—but can you learn how to live?
Chicano Batman on Selena, Touring with Jack White, and the Politics of Bringing Cumbia to Coachella
This trilingual L.A. quartet is all about Latin pride and exploring popular music's black roots.
How to Download a Genocide
Rediscovering my Armenian-ness and a lost heritage with the technologies of remembrance.
Immortal's Not So Immortal After All: Saying Farewell to One of Black Metal's Finest
Closing the gates to Blashyrkh.
Off Hollywood - LeVar Burton
Born during the height of the civil rights movement, LeVar Burton made his name with the landmark 1977 miniseries Roots, and went on to play Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation and his own endearing self on Reading Rainbow...