{"id":721,"date":"2021-04-18T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/?p=721"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T14:56:14","slug":"babylon-is-the-system-that-keeps-us-down-brinsley-forde-of-aswad-speaks-on-babylon-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/archives\/721","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Babylon is the system that keeps us down&#8221; \u2014Brinsley Forde of Aswad speaks on BABYLON the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Babylon is the system that keeps us down&quot; \u2014Brinsley Forde of Aswad speaks on BABYLON the movie\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZdqodZQLsg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>39 years after the movie &#8216;Babylon&#8217; was released in the UK, the independent film examining UK sound system culture and how it helped Caribbean youth facing racial tensions in British society finally premiered in the United States. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Following a special screening in New York City, Brinsley Forde the star of the film (also known as the lead singer of the legendary British reggae band Aswad) spoke with reggae journalist and film maker Reshma B about the movie&#8217;s impact then and now. Somehow it seems that little has changed 39 years later. <\/p><cite>Boomshots tv<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>39 years after the movie &#8216;Babylon&#8217; was released in the UK, the independent film examining UK sound system culture and how it helped Caribbean youth facing racial tensions in British society finally premiered in the United States. Following a special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/archives\/721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/babylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}