⬛ #EqualityInDiversity | Part of the @wearemeraki family #BlackPoundDay #BlackToFront
London, England
Joined March 2011
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London’s Tube map has been powerfully recreated to honour hundreds of people who helped shape black history in Britain.
The 272 station names have been replaced by notable black figures from pre-Tudor times to the present day.
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Trans black voices matter.
Queer black voices matter.
Straight black voices matter.
Young black voices matter.
Old black voices matter.
ALL black voices matter.
#RegisterToVote to aid the fight against hate and make your voice count.
👉 gov.uk/register-to-vote
#NoVoteNoVoice
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A former employee of Britain’s equality watchdog has accused it of failing to support the human rights of ethnic minorities and colluding in the denial of structural and institutional racism theguardian.com/society/2021…
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A great article on #Tooting brothers Troy and Jarrell, and how they took @JuiciJerk from a small van-based Caribbean cuisine business to a national distribution network – and all during the pandemic. Story via @myldn: bit.ly/399WEVN
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Coming September 30th — a celebratory 20th anniversary re-issue of this landmark collection. In a new introduction, editors @courttianewland & @kadijattug reflect on the two decades since original publication —
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I think #BlackToFront happening outside of Black History Month makes it a little bit more special
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I have not been this invested in day time tv since pretending to be sick to miss school
#BlackToFront #channel4
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And you know what?
This isn't 25% of the Black British talent in this country. Not even close.
If production companies and commissioners opened up opportunities to old and new talent they could have had a #BlackToFront on all five of the terrestrial channels today.
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OMG #Gogglebox is giving me pure JOY tonight!!! 😁 #BlackToFront
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My goodness Channel 4 news tonight has been incredibly powerful. I don’t even know where to start. What a powerful and emotive hour!
#Channel4 #BlackToFront
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Thinking about the fact that we even had BET UK which was supposed to give us days like #BlackToFront every day but failed to adequately centre Black British creative talent in my opinion.
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If you missed it the first time around, @skyarts is broadcasting their Soul II Soul episode of 'Classic Albums' again tonight, 8pm BST! Tune in for exclusive interviews and archive footage 📺
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Ooh look the "awakened" are cancelling Morrisons! Meanwhile the rest of us know where it's safe to shop now especially clinically vulnerable, disabled and older folk. #purplepound #DisabilityTwitter
#BoycottMorrisons if you're antivaxxer, everyone else is safe to shop there.
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I'll be doing all my shopping at Morrisons now the anti-vaxxers are going elsewhere to buy the tin foil for their hats #BoycottMorrisons – at Coventry, England
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If anti-vaxers have decided to #BoycottMorrisons, it'll make it a safer place to shop, and leave more food to buy. #winwin
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20 years on from the ground-breaking publication of @malorieblackman ⭕️❌the book that made us fall in love with books
604,800 seconds until ENDGAME the final instalment in the series is published
pre order from your friendly neighbourhood bookseller uk.bookshop.org/a/3316/97802…
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Celebrity Gogglebox, Friday 9pm
on @Channel4. 🤩
Made @MayaJama some of my signature raw lamb & mint as well✨👌🏽
#CelebrityGogglebox #BlackToFront
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Imagine the possibilities and the talent that could be unleashed if newsrooms (if all organisations) embraced diversity instead of treating it like a tick box exercise. Please do tune in to our #BlackToFront edition of #C4News tonight at 7pm
