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There is a growing tendency to treat every forgotten record, every rediscovered archive, every overlooked artist as a hidden masterpiece waiting to be redeemed. But what if cultural memory is more complicated than that? In her latest article for oltreoceano, Maram Khenissi uses the return of the Lafayette Afro Rock Band catalogue to reflect on archives, sampling, migration, and the unequal ways …

Grime did not emerge in a vacuum. Born in the estates of London, it carries echoes of hip hop, sound system culture, jungle, and the lived realities of Black Britain. But where does grime sit within the broader Black Atlantic musical tradition, and can it be considered part of hip hop’s extended family? In this interview, writer and journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom joins Naomi Kelechi Di Meo and …

In the United States, soccer has grown largely through migrant and diasporic communities. Its strongest roots lie within Latin American communities, for whom the game has long been a cultural anchor, a space of belonging, and a link to home. In this context, stadiums have often become more than sporting venues, turning into arenas where questions of race, migration, and visibility are openly …