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London
Joined April 2010
2026 marks the 20th anniversary of British Black Music Month (BBMM) and the 25th anniversary of BritishBlackMusic.com (BBM). For now we're keeping things low key...
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Culture - Two Sevens Clash 🙏🏾🙌🏾✊🏽❤️💛💚 Joseph Hill Live, 1983 UK T.V.
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, born in Puerto Rico, was a writer, activist and collector who documented Black achievement across the African Diaspora. In 1926, the New York Public Library acquired his vast collection, helping preserve Black history. #BlackPast bit.ly/4xucxP3
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@Miss_Toppin @blackhistwalker #Films #Cinema #Music #CreativeProcess Saturday 19 September 2026 at 6.30pm HAK BAKER & DIRECTORS Q&A PLUS ACOUSTIC SET Rio Cinema special screening of Hakeem, a documentary following British singer and rapper Hak Baker. This screening is part of The Music is Black Festival from East Bank, an eight-month series of events celebrating Black British music Download drive.google.com/file/d/14Wm…
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Just posted: 21/08/2026: Here Are Updates: Videos, Garvey Book, Carnival Exhibition Ending Today, Zalon's Upcoming Festival, Etc preview.mailerlite.com/z2b7l… @NHCarnivalLDN @StPaulsCRNVL @CarnivalVT @UKBlackcurrent @opinion_black @REPNATS @ZalonMusic @SelenaCarty @HyphenatedJay
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#DEI cannot stop at who gets into the leadership room but we need to examine what #WomeninLeadership are expected to carry once they get there & at home. Did the relationship change with you? More: nbwn.net/post/you-changed-di… @Mommeansbizco @wibcsus @LDCRE1 @BBMBMC @blkwomenshealth
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Not every career conversation needs noise. Some need honesty, depth and reflection. This piece creates space for thoughtful career conversation and intentional leadership. Read the article: nbwn.org/post/the-top-one-pe… #YouBelongHere @MetBPA @BBMBMC @womenintech @WomenintheCity
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3/3 events & @BBMBMC engaged in some. We produced the #REIMI (Race Equality in Music Industry) document 👆 with @AIM_UK @bpi_music @HelpMusicians @IvorsAcademy @mmfuk @the_MPA @WeAreTheMU @PPLUK @PRSforMusic @UK_Music This week, BTWSC sent the mailer👇 to many inc music biz orgs
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2/3 consequences of not changing become more costly than the discomfort of changing.” Reminded me of the 2020 aftermath of the Afriphobic murder of George Floyd, when the UK music industry initiated several EDI programmes - some even had "Black history" and "Black History Month"
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1/3 Just finished reading former Met Police officer & #BTWSCNARMRoleModel Chukwudum Ikeazor's ‘I WATCHED POLICING PROMISE CHANGE... I WATCHED IT FAIL’ in the Sep. 2026 @TheVoiceNews Love this quote: "Systems do not change because of good intentions. They change because the...
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What happened to former radio presenter and radio executive Willber Willberforce??????
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Rare 1967 footage showing how traditional drums in Ghana were used to send messages over short and long distances, and even perform traditional poetry.
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Britain’s first Black schoolteacher commemorated with a Blue Plaque The life of Francis Barber, servant, friend, and ultimately heir to Dr Samuel Johnson, has been commemorated with a Blue Plaque at Dr Johnson’s House in Fleet Street Quarter. 👇🏽 ↗️voice-online.co.uk/news/2026…
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1/3 Just finished reading former Met Police officer & #BTWSCNARMRoleModel Chukwudum Ikeazor's ‘I WATCHED POLICING PROMISE CHANGE... I WATCHED IT FAIL’ in the Sep. 2026 @TheVoiceNews Love this quote: "Systems do not change because of good intentions. They change because the...
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2/3 consequences of not changing become more costly than the discomfort of changing.” Reminded me of the 2020 aftermath of the Afriphobic murder of George Floyd, when the UK music industry initiated several EDI programmes - some even had "Black history" and "Black History Month"
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3/3 events & @BBMBMC engaged in some. We produced the #REIMI (Race Equality in Music Industry) document 👆 with @AIM_UK @bpi_music @HelpMusicians @IvorsAcademy @mmfuk @the_MPA @WeAreTheMU @PPLUK @PRSforMusic @UK_Music This week, BTWSC sent the mailer👇 to many inc music biz orgs
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"MAAFA" & "MAANGAMIZI" are terms in Kiswahili that are often used in #Reparations Movement & Pan-Afrikan circles to refer to the Invasion, Conquest, Trafficking, Enslavement & Neo(Colonisation) of Afrikan people & all that came with it in its totality. It's impossible to understand the experience & it's impact by isolating any aspect of it as unrelated to the other. The Western-Empire allegiant #BlackConservativeIndustrialComplex commentators like to project the Afrikan Continent as a beneficiary of the Maafa. A proper understanding of it reveals the fact that this idea is a western coloniser delusion! If it is wrong to see Afrika as "one big victim land" (whatever that means), then why is it correct to portray Afrika as one big slave trading land? 🤔 The answer lies partly in the interests it serves. Black people divided on the issue of #reparations serves British🇬🇧 political interests, so those who pledge allegiance to Britain🇬🇧 will attempt to manufacture that division in service of those interests... Even if they have to lie and promote anti-Black/Afrikan caricatures to do so. There's more to say... In upcoming posts I will likely reshare historical information on Afrikan resistance to European enslavers on the continent... As well as put Reparations in it's proper context. The hyper focus on a monetary figure is always used to distort the issue and these British🇬🇧 Empire loyalist, Black otherwise, clearly no nothing about Reparations and don't particularly care to educate themselves. Soon forward... ...... Did this in October 2025. Thought it was already posted here. Taking the opportunity to correct that... #ShakaRaSpeaks #KimbungaMedia #Awoah
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