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Between 1894 and 1947 in Canada, the residential school system made attendance at Christian-administered boarding schools mandatory for all Indigenous children. Separated from their families and culture and subject to widespread physical and sexual abuse, around 150,000 children were placed in the system over a hundred-year period until the last residential school closed in 1997. In 2015 a national...

This week the shrouded South London producer Burial unspools a midwinter marvel in the form of the Antidawn extended play, where film samples and organ vamps sound out like the passing spectres of a church choir amid the vaporous slug of his washed-out cityscape. The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith realises an Ankhrasmation score alongside the guitarists Alex Varty and Henry...

In a world that teeters on the brink of exhaustion, Koffee strains to withstand all the pressure, Brandy and Alanis Morissette precariously balance hunger and heartache with lack of sleep, while even at the end of a hard day Devon Welsh remains choosy about his double cheeseburger. Jorja Smith stands in solidarity with the fight for social justice, 18Veno...