A ‘local legend’ who has done over 100 half marathons for charities incl Cancer Research is fighting for a possibly life-saving treatment after being diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. Christian Clarke, 63, from Stockport hopes to get running again open.substack.com/pub/melissasig…

George Stinney, 14, was the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair. Due to no evidence, his conviction was posthumously vacated 70 years after his execution!

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

NEW: African and Caribbean nations must "tear down" barriers that separate us, says PM of St Kitts and Nevis 🌍🇰🇳🌎👏🏾 Prime Minister Terrance Drew is also calling for VISA-FREE travel between African and Caribbean nations to make the connections easier. voice-online.co.uk/news/2025/08/0…

Tharel has now received enough to pay the £10k deposit for him to get his crucial surgery 🙏🏾 His mum told me she ‘got down on her knees to give thanks’ and is so grateful for the public support. That’s the definition of community 🙌🏾 open.substack.com/pub/melissasig…

105 years ago today, Marcus Garvey created The Pan-African/Black Liberation flag. Garvey was the father of the black nationalist and pan african movements, activist & founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) Color Meaning:

She’s making a valid point, I keep saying that Middle East is a colonial programming word, its original name is North East Africa.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.

She runs a large anti-ICE TikTok account—now agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest. Agents drag her out of Tesla & throw her on ground where she lay unresponsive—then rushed by ambulance to hospital. She is well-known to ICE as community activist who films

Where is the outrage for Congo 🇨🇩? Where are the protests for Congo 🇨🇩? There’s more than one genocide happening at once. However I only hear about one And they’re all connected. Listen 👂🏾 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Congo is suffering in Silence 🤫 Keep Eyes on Congo too!!!

We’re not talking enough about how every major institution is caving to the political climate

🚨 NEW: More than 100 women’s rights groups say linking sexual abuse to migration is “dangerous racist diversion” and “hijacks” survivors’ trauma [Dave Burke]

URGENT #journorequest I want to speak to Black women who have purchased hair care products which they later found out are not authentic. Please share and get in touch! Please #RT

A Black man has been racially abused, falsely labelled a paedophile & was suspended from his job after a family video of him playing outdoors with his white grandkids was shared by Tommy Robinson asking ‘where are the parents?’ theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

TW: More than 17,000 victims of sexual violence were treated in eastern Congo in over just 5 months last year, according to a United Nations report. The conflict, which has killed thousands this year alone is still ongoing. aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/…

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine. Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza. Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, warns The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. An immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access is imperative to save lives. wfp.org/news/famine-co… — via World Food Programme

Congratulations to PROFESSOR GUS JOHN on receiving the prestigious honorary Companionship Award from dmuleicester - 21st August 2025 in recognition of his continued and unwavering commitment to #racialjustice #antiracism #education #humanrights #equality #HigherEducation 👏🏾🎉🙌🏾✊🏾

“Nobody from Ukraine got onto a small boat and had to be put up in one of these asylum accommodation centres.” The asylum system reveals a double standard: Ukrainians access safe routes, while others endure poor conditions that fuel racism, says migration expert Zoe Gardner.

A Sikh taxi driver in his 70s ‘suffered 2 broken ribs’ & another Sikh man in his 60s ‘needed hospital treatment’ in what police are treating as a racially aggravated assault in Wolverhampton. A 17yo, 19yo & a 25 were arrested & later released on bail bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…