My first book - Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain 🇬🇧 - is out NOW 🙏🏿 It's a social history of British Rap. It tells the stories of those who have shaped, and been shaped, by this music that we love 💫 You can buy it here: linktr.ee/aniefiokekp

No go areas of London: Underground 5-7pm weekday Turtle Bay Any soho house Oxford Circus 26th Dec All bar one

➡️GWPR has brought together a panel of PR professionals representing women in their 20s, 30s and 40s to discuss the shape of the workplace for the future. 🎙️ Romilly Brooks 🎙️ Jo Ogunleye 🎙️ Sarah White 🎙️ @AnnaGeff Book now: ow.ly/cHwL50QGBXS

Photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance - a thread 🧵 1. Wilma Hurskainen

Smartest thing I seen on the innanet all year.

Kerry Davis, the first Black woman to play for England, has been celebrated at the Football Black List celebration receiving the Keith Alexander award for her achievements as a pioneer in women’s football after her England debut in 1982 voice-online.co.uk/sport/football…

RIP Richard Taylor a warrior for change you’ll be missed but now you’ll finally be with your son Damilola. BBC News (UK)

Delighted and honoured to receive a Knighthood for services to AI. It’s been an incredible journey so far building Google DeepMind over the past 15 years, helping accelerate the field and grow the UK & global AI ecosystems. Thanks to everyone who helped make this dream possible!

Award-winning journalist and Good Morning Britain host, Marverine Cole, has launched a new politics podcast aiming to give a voice to Britain’s Black community called The Trouble With Politics’. voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2…

This is my same life.

A mum who struggled to afford period pads has helped close to 20,000 women & girls by providing free menstrual products through her charity Flow Happy. She hopes to help end period poverty as 1 in 10 girls in the UK can’t afford these basic necessities londonnewsonline.co.uk/news/mum-suppo…

What Black British moment or chaos lives in your head rent free?

Words don’t even begin to describe the pain we have all felt over the last few days. Daniel was one of the children in the youth group I lead, Jubilee Youth, part of Jubilee Church London. There’s no way to articulate the pain we are all feeling losing one of our own. Daniel is

I hear the press have got hold of some pictures and so I have been forced to make this statement. Needless to say, I apologise. shorturl.at/nENOY

🚨 10 days left to join us as a staff writer or editor in London. It's going to be an amazing team. We need more NY-style journalism over here. Please send the link to friends and share. millmediaco.uk/2024/07/22/wer…

This is Kakuma Refugee Camp, where most of the champs bossing the Basketball World were brought up. I recorded this video during the game; South Sudan’s FIRST GAME at the The Olympic Games against Puerto Rico. Motherland is proud.

To offer a counter to the dickheads setting fire to libraries and looting Shoezones, here's a thread of good people doing good things.

African domestic workers in Lebanon were abandoned by their employers and are now sleeping on the streets. They were told find fellow Africans and sort themselves out. Goes to show that no matter what nonblacks are going through, their anti blackness will always rear its head.

Atp... Because how is EVERYONE in Lag right now???