Tag: America

• VIDEO: Why thousands of people are walking from Central America to the US and Mexico

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  8 Nov 2018

  BBC Newsbeat, Videos

  America, Americas, Central America, Humanitarian crisis, Immigration, Politics, South America, USA

• XXXTentacion and the problem of separating art from its artist

  By Imran Rahman-Jones and Sinead Garvan XXXTentacion has scored his highest position in the UK’s Official Chart, with his track Sad climbing up to number five. The 20-year-old was shot dead in his car in Florida on 18 June. Radio 1 didn’t play XXXTentacion on its Official Chart Show, even though he currently has three songs in…

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  29 Jun 2018

  BBC Newsbeat, Writing

  America, Art, Music, USA, XXXTentacion

• BDE: What is big dick energy and who really has it?

  Welcome to the internet in 2018 – which has already given us people eating laundry detergent, a man asking if a butterfly was a pigeon and an audio version of #TheDress (it said “yanny”, by the way). It’s now given rise to the newest and weirdest and most important question so far: Who has “big dick energy”? By the way, physical endowment has…

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  27 Jun 2018

  BBC Newsbeat, Writing

  America, Celebrities, Internet, Social Media, USA

• NFL protests: Female sports stars are taking a stand too

  There’s been a huge amount of coverage over the way NFL stars have been protesting against racial injustice. The protests came after Donald Trump said that players who protested during the anthem should be fired. But before that, female sports stars were already speaking out. Read the full article on BBC Newsbeat.

  Imran Rahman-Jones

  25 Sep 2017

  BBC Newsbeat, Writing

  America, American football, Donald Trump, Race, Society, Sport, USA