Jimi Famurewa

When the rapper Stormzy bounded onto the stage at 2019’s Glastonbury Festival—spring-heeled and indomitable in a Banksy-designed stab-vest—it was an indisputable moment of triumph. But it wasn’t merely a significant victory for grime music or Black culture in the United Kingdom. It was the culmination of a modern immigrant success story that had been building for at least half a...