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N4MES is the network for minoritised ethnic staff @UniversityLeeds to socialise and receive mutual support. Black Lives Matter.

Leeds, England
Joined March 2019
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Gboyega was well loved and in his memory the Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation has been set up for low income Black writers. Visit the Go Fund me page below to find out how his family will continue Gboyega's legacy. gofundme.com/f/gboyega-oduba…
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Gboyega Odubanjo has been missing since the weekend and his family says this is completely out of character. If anyone knows anything please contact the numbers on the flyer below. Praying he can be found soon 🙏🏾
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PLEASE KEEP SHARING! 🚨🚨This Saturday🚨🚨 No to Nazis in Seacroft! All refugees welcome! 📣 Saturday 5 August 📣 12.30pm 📣 The Green, York Road, Seacroft ✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 PLEASE KEEP SHARING!
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Super exciting to see my work on skin colour in Ancient Greece published! A massive thanks to @CASLeeds for the opportunity to get my work out there and to @owenhodkinson for his immense support during both the writing of the article and my dissertation.
Huge congratulations to our recent alumna Maya Aziz @azizmaya22 on the publication of an article based on her @CASLeeds prize-winning BA dissertation: Article = lucas.leeds.ac.uk/article/sk… Prize announcement = lucas.leeds.ac.uk/news/lione… #ancienthistory #africanstudies #racestudies
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We're getting ready for @LeedsPride this Sunday 🏳️‍🌈 Our staff will be marching in the parade alongside our amazing colleagues from other Leeds charities. Hope to see you there! #Pride2023 #LeedsPride #LGBTQIA #Pride #TeamLeeds
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🚨Help us bring two children currently residing in dire circumstances in Ethiopia to join their parents in the UK. The children are at risk of ethnic persecution we need donations for their one-way flights. Read on for their story and the donation link: 👇jcwi.org.uk/pages/shop/depar…
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In celebration of #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, some pieces documenting the rich tradition of political activism in the British South Asian community. First up, the Asian Youth movements who fought back against the racism of street gangs and the state. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/07/com…
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Today marks #NHS75 👩🏾‍⚕️👨🏾‍⚕️ Founded in 1948, the NHS was the first universal health system in the world available to all. It also marks 75 years since HMT Windrush arrived. Today, people of minority ethnic heritage comprise almost 25% of the NHS workforce and 42% of medical staff.
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In honour of my late wife Dr Nicole Andrews @Newman_Uni and Birmingham City Council Public Health to offer a 22 month postdoc on African Caribbean Health Inequalities 🙏🏿Nicole was dedicated to the topic and supporting Black researchers. Deadline June 18. newman.ac.uk/jobs/post-docto…
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🇯🇲 🎥 For Windrush 75, next Thurs, we’re hosting a free eve screening of ‘Displaced’ with film co-dir. Ashley Karrell (‘Carnival Messiah: The Film & Doc’). A powerful story of Akeim Toussaint Buck’s journey from Jamaica to Leeds told through dance & song. tinyurl.com/28acb3jt
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This Saturday, we will rally to say #RefugeesWelcome and oppose those spreading hatred and scapegoating refugees and asylum seekers. Unity rally called by @SUTRLeeds.
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“And it is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water” - U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, in a poem for Europa Read the full poem and #SendYourName along with it on NASA’s @EuropaClipper spacecraft: go.nasa.gov/MessageInABottle
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Women of colour face "(1) meritocracy and the problem of cumulative (dis)advantage, (2) the lack of racial awareness in management decisions, and (3) the operations of power and silencing" in Higher Education. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Heartbroken to hear @galdemzine is closing down after many wonderful years platforming writers of colour. I and many others got our first breaks with them. I wish there was something we could do to save these vital organisations. Thank you gal-dem, your legacy will live on ✨
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Leeds Black History Walk, Season 14. There’s so much that’s great about Yorkshire, including rich African connections & contributions. Walk with us, in the footsteps of greatness, through a shared heritage. ⭐️⭐️BOOK NOW⭐️⭐️ - limited places. eventbrite.co.uk/e/leeds-bla… 1/2
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FREE screenings & Q&A with creative team of our special short📽️The Ode to Partition. 18th Jan - @The_Tetley 8th Feb - @Seven_Arts 15th Feb - @Kala_Sangam Tickets going fast!👇 bit.ly/3URyvbj #TribeTalks #TribeTalksPartition #ResolveEvolve
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2nd Oluwale Anthology Competition live! Submit new poetry or prose responding to David’s story and exploring relevant issues of marginalisation, racial justice, mental ill-health, rough-sleeping, resistance and hope. Deadline: February 1st 2023 peepaltreepress.com/blog/wha…
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First recorded labour strike in world history took place c. 3,177 years ago this month! The ‘Strike Papyrus’ records that tomb workers of Ramesses III at Deir el-Medina in Egypt, downed tools over pay and conditions, in November, c. 1155 BC. 📷: Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 Can you believe it's been a whole year since our last Olivette Otele Prize CFP? Nor can we! Join us in celebrating research undertaken by Black PhD students of history and related disciplines by sharing our CFP! Info below: history.ac.uk/join-ihr/fello…
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the audre lorde questionnaire to oneself 🌱
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