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We're back with INTL BLK radio after a few months hiatus. In this episode, Chief Boima opens with a mix of Afrobeats and Zouk, and then reviews some of the musical cross-overs happening across the Black Atlantic. In the 2nd hour we have an interview with Lamin Fofana, electronic music producer and DJ of Sierra Leonean descent based in Berlin. We discuss his latest album Brancusi Sculpting Beyonce, the phenomenon of negrophilia in 1920s European modernist art, and what's behind the current moment of the popularity of African culture in Europe.

Latin America has not been immune to virality of trap, with the genre being popularized across much of the Caribbean. The Afro Latin island nations, and nearby coastal cities have always been the incubator for Latin American popular music. So when we saw one of Latin Pop's biggest stars, Jennifer Lopez, debut her new "latin trap" song "Dinero" at this year's Billboard Music Awards (alongside DJ Khaled and Cardi B), we thought it would be a good excuse to take our show's focus on international black issues, and start to narrow in on some of the specific cultural nuances of this Black American genre resonating in the US's neighboring nations to the South.

We have a new co-host for the INTL BLK show. Francesca Harding joins Chief Boima for the fourth episode recorded in Los Angeles, California. We talk Beychella, Black Panther, Kanye Tweets and what mainstream artists owe to New Orleans. We round the show out with Angolan media personality and activist Mel Gamboa talking about politics and culture in her home country.

This month’s INTL BLK episode takes a deep dive into the African-influenced music scene of the Colombian Caribbean coast, co-presented by Palmwine.it in celebration of their Guarapo album. Before that we run through some of the latest tunes from the contemporary Afropop landscape with stops in Nigeria and Kenya, as well as take a stop in Brazil to celebrate Carnival. Last but not least, RIP Hugh Masekela.

NTL BLK comes back to Dublab in Los Angeles for its 2nd episode (with a mic that’s a bit too hot, sorry!). This time we dive a bit into the Black Pacific, and take a deeper look at the contemporary Cuban Hip Hop scene with guest Luna Olavarria Gallegos, one of the producers of the Afro Razones project.

INTL BLK premieres their first radio episode on Dublab in Los Angeles. Hosts Chief Boima and Nora Rahimian interview LA-based Nigerian American DJ Tomi Tribe, and have a guest mix from LA native of Panamanian descent DJ Francesca Harding.