{"id":499357,"date":"2026-06-18T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499357\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:38:10","slug":"watch-our-panel-at-the-music-is-black-festival-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499357\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch our panel at The Music is Black Festival! | Video | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of June, we hosted a very special panel evening at The Music is Black Festival, and you can now find out what went down with a special feature from UCL East.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Academic-in-Residence Dr Clive Nwonka, author of the acclaimed book \u2018Black Arsenal\u2019, and chaired by former Olympian and broadcaster Jeanette Kwakye MBE, the panel featured Arsenal legend Anita Asante; LABRUM London founder Foday Dumbuya, who collaborated with Arsenal and adidas on the club\u2019s 2024\/25 Africa-inspired away kit, and Ghanaian-British afrobeats producer, DJ and musician, Juls, who composed the music for the kit\u2019s launch film.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion also explored how generations of Black players, supporters and creatives have helped shape Arsenal&#8217;s identity, redefining representation in English football and establishing the club as a cultural force extending into music, fashion and everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>To get an inside scoop on what went down, we sent Nakeira Westmaas across the capital to gather all the details about a unique occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Press play on the video above to find out more!<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/arsenal-launch-black-culture-exhibit-ucl-east?utm_source=arsenaldotcom&amp;utm_medium=embedded-article&amp;utm_campaign=news\" class=\"article-card__wrapper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\n         Read more                              Arsenal launch black culture exhibit at UCL East <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the start of June, we hosted a very special panel evening at The Music is Black Festival,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-499357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}