In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt, informing him about the potential for an atomic bomb. Einstein recommended the Shinkolobwe mine in Congo as the best source for Uranium for the bomb. The Shinkolobwe mine then operated by Belgian firm African Metal Corp.

Black Mothers suffer in silence through fear of reprisals and the care towards them becoming worse should they complain Black mothers are 4 times more likely to die during childbirth. Majority of these deaths are preventable The time for action on Black maternal health is now!

Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible.

This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. In 2021, worth $72 million, it was returned to their descendents by Senate Bill 796.

49 years ago today, Martin Luther King’s mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while in church. 6 years after her son was gunned down in Memphis. Alfred Daniel King, brother to MLK, mysteriously died in a swimming pool, 15 months after his brother’s assassination.

SPAC Nation are a stain on the Black British community and it’s truly time we stop engaging with this cult. Mariam and Phadria should be embarrassed and people need to stop doing business with them or endorsing them. forbes.com/sites/iainmart…

Outrage over UK university’s plan to cut African history course and its professor “Nearly 5,000 people have signed a petition against Adi’s proposed redundancy and suspension of recruitment for the course.”theguardian.com/education/2023…

Who would like to do a PhD under my supervision at King's College London? We are offering a fully funded Harold Moody PGR studentship for a a British person from an ‘underrepresented community.’ Apply/ spread the word!

‘If you are Black you are more likely to be stopped, searched, handcuffed, tasered and use of force against you.’ Baroness Casey’s tell it like it is without fear or favour approach is just so refreshing.

The The Guardian announces new roles in the Caribbean, South America and Africa, and expands its reporting on race in the UK and US as part of #restorativejustice work: ow.ly/U9WK50PlKwi

Calling all UK Academics! 🎺 Do you know any PhD students working on social movements and innovation? We have just received seed funding for some work on this and we're looking for a (paid) collaborator who wants to develop their research profile in this area.

Teach your kids about Steve Biko, Kwame Nkrumah, Samora Machel, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Julius Nyerere, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Teach your kids about African heroes that look like them.

📣 VACANCY 📣 Want to help develop the creative and cultural sector? 🤔 We’re hiring a Senior Relationship Manager to be based in London 📍 Find out more and apply by 31 January 👉 buff.ly/3RYZjqN

A scholarship (tuition fees & stipend) for Black Britons has been set up at Edinburgh University in the name of my late, great friend, the novelist Andrea Levy. Please share. Good luck. 1/2

Whew, Black British writers did not hold back at all! 'Is American Fiction real?' by Emma Loffhagen Brilliant insights from Yomi Adegoke, Reni Eddo-Lodge, 🇯🇲Candice Carty-Williams🇯🇲, Candice Braithwaite and others on the publishing industry. standard.co.uk/culture/film/a…