Mon Rovîa
Mon 26 Jan 2026
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“Kids that have my experience are very lonely, you know?” he told the website BGS. “A Black person that spoke white - because I spoke pretty properly - there’s not really a place you fit. You don’t fit with the white kids because you’re Black in their eyes, clearly. And then the African Americans don’t accept you because you don’t know their world either.”
O2 Institute, Birmingham
7pm £25.60