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‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury – photo essay
It strongly champions Black music – but does Glastonbury feel inviting enough for Black audiences? On a tour of the site, we discover a growing community of new festival fans
Watching the BBC feed from the Pyramid stage showing tens of thousands of similarly reddened faces, the crowd seemed so white to us; and then there is the mud, drugs and unavoidable discomfort central to country life, none of which are usually celebrated in Black culture. “Mine will be like that by the end of the weekend!”Microaggression aside, Ollie has left his afro pick in the car, so she has no clue about the rat’s nest awaiting him on Sunday. Overall, we find that people are overwhelmingly kind and welcoming, and bar the odd comment – and the person who approached us to buy drugs – we’ve had the time of our lives.
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