War on Woke
I keep seeing the word woke being used as an insult, which makes me ask when did the word “woke” become a bad thing? The term woke is thrown around like parsley so much these days that I had to…
Category Current Affairs
Meghan Markle
Like many others, we felt some type of way after watching the infamous interview with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Oprah. It was difficult listening to the cruelty and racism she endured. I remember the announcement of Harry and Meghan’s…
Occupy Lekki Tollgate
When we saw that #Endsars and #LekkiTollgate trending on social media, we braced ourselves for the worst on Saturday 13th February. An order by the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry planned to reopen Lekki Tollgate for the first time since…
What’s in a name?
For those who are not familiar with Yewande Biala – she starred in Love Island 2019. Yewande didn’t win Love Island unfortunately but won the hearts of the nation. Yewande minds her business, doesn’t get involved with drama, shares her…
Yvonne Connolly
The UK’s first Black headteacher. It was announced that Yvonne Connolly had sadly passed on the 30th January, we wanted to pay tribute to her. Yvonne was the headteacher of Rings Cross Infant School, Holloway in 1969 when she was…
Why The Movement Needs to Matter
Saturday 6th December 2020 should have been remembered as the day fans returned back to watch The Beautiful Game in stadiums. I never got used to the new normality of stadiums with added noises of crowds cheering like it’s an…
Racism in UK schools
We need to keep airing the wounds from the ripped band-aid in 2020. The comments that you see here are from Black Brits’ experiences of racism at school. Only one person’s comment said that they didn’t experience racism at school.…
Black Ballet
There is a lack of diversity in many fields and vocations that have been highlighted in recent times. After slavery had ended, there were many preconceived notions about what Black people could and could not do for a living and…
Reparations
The definition of reparations is “The action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged.” Have there been any reparations paid to the Black communities? Since summer…
Grenfell
Nobody will ever forget the tragedy that was Grenfell. 72 people died on the 14th June 2017, a disaster which has been badly handled by the government. One of the Grenfell campaigners Clarrie Mendy died last year and London Mayor…