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Global Blackness & Black Futures: academics & activists will discuss, steel band Metronomes Steel Orchestra & choreopoet Saifya Samaria Kinshasa will perform, Booklove Multicultural Travelling Book Carnival will sell books: eventbrite.com/e/global-black…

It's #NationalSmileDay : London National Panorama Steelband Competition 2014 – Metronomes Steel Orchestra Source Youtube youtube.com/watch?v=eI4PbS… Metronomes Steel Orchestra will be performing ⬇️

Book Review: Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis by Thomas Cryer (2022). Source LSE Blogs: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo…

Festival Africa Writes Exeter 7-8 June: africawrites.org/exeter/africa-… Writers incl. award winning Diana Evans, @jj_bola; Sunday Times Best Seller Esmie Jikiemi Pearson Esmie 💫🪐 & Fiona Williams whose book, The House of Broken Bricks, is Faber Books super lead debut 2024 #writing

#Writing There's still time to enter @cassavarepublic's inaugural Global Black Women's Non Fiction Manuscript prize sponsored by Alitheia Capital: cassavarepublic.biz/black-womens-n… Closing date: 30th June. Jury Chair: Bernardine Evaristo. Cassava Republic, est. in 2006, is a publisher to note

Heroine City host lynsey shaw speaks to history scholar Montaz Marche about her research on Anne Sancho, wife of Ignatius Sancho. Source @Heroine_City (2023): shows.acast.com/heroinecity/ep… Marche's area of interest is Eighteenth-century Black Women in Britain. #blackBritish #history

#Childrensliterature On the bookshelf A Fun ABC by teacher & primary curriculum specialist Sade Fadipe, published Cassava Republic, (2016) is a joy to read and Shedrach Ayolameh's illustrations are great! Sade Fadipe writes with enthusiasm and commitment to child development.

The Cassava Republic press has published Like Water Like Sea (International Edition, 2024) by Olumide Popoola. The The Republic has printed an excerpt: republic.com.ng/april-may-2024…

New book: Billy Waters is Dancing Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain by Dr @MaryLShannon, to be published by Yale University Press London📚 in June, gives more visibility to the 'celebrated King of Beggars'.

Ahead of Blackness and Black Futures on 10 June where Prof Jovan Scott-Lewis gives keynote speech eventbrite.com/e/global-black… The book below:

Author Sarah Ladipo Manyika interviews Booker Prize winner Bernadine Evaristo who talks creativity, activism, the African diaspora, impact of Booker Prize win. Source Inaugural Transition on the Wire podcast (2024) extension Transition (magazine): soundcloud.com/transitionmaga…

Noteworthy book: The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity, ed. by Dr Camilla Hawthorne (Dr. Camilla A. Hawthorne) & Jovan Scott-Lewis, pub by Duke Press (2023). Introduction here, courtesy @dukepress: dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMate…

#Event UC Berkeley Prof Jovan Scott Lewis, founder Berkeley Black Geographies Project, The Black Geographic, to give keynote speech Blackness Beyond Repair @ Global Blackness and Black Futures on 10 June: eventbrite.com/e/global-black… His work covers economic & racial inequality, reparations.

Prof Joan Anim-Addo chairs the Global Blackness and Black Futures event on 10 June at SOAS in collaboration with Ebony Initiative SOAS King's and the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies Goldsmiths College. Book: eventbrite.com/e/global-black…

Babygirl You've Got This: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System by Dr Louise April Pennant, pub by Bloomsbury Academic (2024).
Dr. Pennant, Ph.D. has written a key text covering race, culture, class, empowerment, inequality, sexism, social justice. #data

'Trust your grief
it is trying to
show you the truth

Believe your tears
they are crying to
show you your strength'

#WithLoveGriefAndFury

Book Launch 7 June of The Caribbean and the Second World War by Colin Douglas, pub Lawrence Wishart Books Venue BCA, Brixton. Historian Kelly Foster to chair discussion with the author, historian Stephen Bourne and Black Poppy Founder Selena Carty. Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

'I can never forget my first days in London' by Barbara Blake Hannah in memoir 'Growing Out: Black Hair & Black Pride in the Swinging Sixties' republished by Penguin. See BBC Barbara Blake Hannah, O.D., O.S.E.: Barbara Blake-Hannah: Britain's first black female TV reporter: youtube.com/watch?v=rB4SC7…

Windrush Day is on 22nd June and we'll be posting! History is important and there are still many stories to be told. On 25th May The RWA Bristol launched Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation. Runs until 11th August 2024: rwa.org.uk/collections/ar…