Amazing conversation alert!

I get to join Aminah Elahi, Rita Gayle, Amahra Spence, John Narayan, and author Christina Heatherton about reading her amazing book Arise! here in Birmingham.

6 PM, 9 June, yard. Sign up here:
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An update on our funding. hayfestival.org/news/blog.aspx…

Remembering #TinaTurner today on the 1st anniversary of her passing (May 24, 2023) | Explore her musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/TinaTurnerRIP

Major breakthrough: Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old treated at Children’s National Hospital in D.C., stands a chance at becoming the first person cured of sickle cell disease with gene therapy. Here's how it works. nbc4dc.com/onGr4d9

Calling UK-based Black Dance Artists!

Pitch your idea for an installation piece exploring Blackness and the environment for a seed commission opportunity in collaboration with Antoine Marc, MilkIt Studio and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

digitalblkdance.org/get-involved
Applications due 12th June

People think I'm being facetious or exaggerating when I talk about music industry economics. I'm not

🥁 AFRICA DAY SPEAKERS ANNOUNCEMENT!

Here are your speakers for tomorrow’s #AfricaDay celebrations at our Creative Hub!

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💃🏽🕺🏾Remember to bring colour and to wear African themed attire!

Registrations are still open at utopiatheatre.co.uk/events

The Black Ballad Weekender:
👑 100 black women speaking
👑 Over 40 panels, workshops, keynotes & interviews
👑 Celebrating 10 years of black stories, black women & Black Ballad
👑 Across 2 days in August

✨Introducing the 1st 12 speakers for #BBWeekender ✨

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Man in blue, 'Thames Water on the verge of going bust.. The water industry is the perfect business model.. Their market is every home, every business.. Their customers are forced to use their company.. There's zero competition.. They're selling a product made up of 70% of the

I read Return to the Source by Amilcar Cabral as a teenage undergrad' in the School of African & Asian Studies at Univ of Sussex eons ago, & my thinking on colonialism, culture, history, pan-Africanism & Black liberation was forever re-formed & sharpened.
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I am standing as an independent candidate for the people of Islington North.

As your MP, I will continue to be an independent voice for equality, democracy and peace.

Please join our campaign at votecorbyn.com. Let's prove that when we come together, we can win.

🎭Here is the final lineup of performers for #AfricaDay at Utopia Theatre! 🌍
Join us for a day of incredible performances by Jide Adeyemi, Mulembas d’Africa, Olowu Busayo, Sile Sibanda, Danae Wellington & Guy Kelton Jones! 📅 25th May utopiatheatre.co.uk/events/

Job - Head Archivist at National Museum of African American History and Culture — please share!

trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/84…

Yesterday i met these white female peace corps, &1 asked if I’ve heard of them & I said aren’t you lot federal agents disguised as volunteers. They both went silent.

The heading is misleading. Our knowledge and contribution is systemically marginalised and undervalued, yet innovation and decoloniality ‘buzzwords’ are desperately sought for ‘groundbreaking’ projects… in theory…

Finding What Is Ours Symposium - one day session in June inviting international speakers (and you!) to explore ongoing work to reclaim African heritage knowledge systems.

Full details & tix here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/finding-what…

New 'research' professors have been appointed, whilst current academics in 11 departments, including in Sociology are up for the chop, from an unknown panel who will score us.

It's terrifyingly clear that war can be pursued through urbicide, when the destruction of urban space isn't a byproduct of warfare but a military objective in itself. This dystopian proposal shows that *building* urban space could also be an act of war archpaper.com/2024/05/benjam…

My paper on Tidalectics and African Diasporic Imagination in the work of Katherine Dunham is finally out in Dance Research Journal! I am so grateful to those who were by my side throughout this transformative journey.

oh, and it's open access!

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Another former cab min: 'It's 100 per cent on him now. He thought it was easy job & he could do better than Boris' Source thinks early elex confirms 'Rwanda not happening..They won't have planes in GE campaign. MPs are so angry and that launch this eve was totally amateur'