Let’s continue to salute and stand by our sisters! For way too long Black women in the public domain have been on the receiving end of verbal abuse. Abuse often perpetrated by the likes of an ignorant minority who know and understand little about Black people, Black history and culture and more specifically, Black women. …
As a young Black graduate, it wasn’t particularly easy for me starting out in the field of Journalism. I received a fair share of rejection letters before I landed my first unpaid work placement with a national newspaper. And as excited as I was about the prospect of entering a newsroom for the first time,…
Most of us wouldn’t dream of studying at the age of 80, but highly ambitious Antonette Clarke-Akalanne, saw age as no barrier when she enrolled on a MA in Black Humanities at Bristol University. Graduating at 81 years-old, was a massive and inspiring milestone and Antonette continues to embrace work in the community through her…
When travel goes awry, do not panic! In this article I share with you my experience of travelling with a baby and the frustrating case of not being allowed through airport security with the necessary baby formula for a 12-hour flight to Cape Town, South Africa. Having contacted British airways several weeks before our departure…
Questions of ‘belonging’ ran deep this week after the late Queen’s lady-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey, repeatedly asked a Black British charity boss: “where are you really from?” during a palace charity reception. It was reported that Ms Ngozi Fulani, a charity founder of the domestic violence charity, Sistah Space, had her long dreadlocks moved to one side…
The unexpected and intense events of summer 2020 were like no other in my living memory. First there was Covid-19, the pandemic that swept the nation, then there was George Floyd, the African American killed by a white police officer in the US city of Minneapolis. What followed was an explosion of anti-racist riots across…
With October just being around the corner, many schools across the country are preparing to welcome and celebrate Black History Month, a time of reflection and remembrance, honouring the positive and profound contributions that Black people have made and continue to make to Britain. But we are also reminded of the controversy that comes…
From as far afield as the South Africa Rhodes Must Fall movement to the former British slave ports of Bristol, symbols of colonial oppression have adorned and occupied public space for centuries. But it was the pulling down of Bristol’s Edward Colston statue that really struck a chord with the British people, opening old wounds…