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Janice aka Miss Mad News

UK NEWS: JOURDAN DUNN ANNOUNCED AS THE FACE OF NEW ‘NEXT’ VENTURE

I don’t usually pay much attention to developments in the world of fashion but it’s Jourdan Dunn. High Street retailer NEXT has announced that black British model Jourdan Dunn is the face of their new venture LABEL which will launch on Thursday. LABEL will sell brands including Warehouse, Adidas, Converse, Oasis, Hobbs, L K Bennett, and Glamourous. If Jourdan had not been discovered shopping in Primark all those years ago I wonder what she would be doing now. Congratulations Jourdan.

BBC LONDON – DOTUN ADEBAYO SHOW: ARE BLACK MEN DISPROPORTIONATELY INVOLVED IN NIGHTCLUB VIOLENCE?

Dotun Adebayo asks are young black men disproportionately involved in nightclub violence? Guests include Mr. Play, DJ Spoony and Sara Myers. Last night’s discussion is in response to Afia Asha’s controversial Facebook post that blamed young black men for the violence in south London nightclubs. Afia who is the bar managing director for the Brixton Fridge Bar wrote: “Unless and until young black people (18-35) learn to conduct themselves in a civil manner then the night time economy will be closed or severely []

UK TV: BIG REUNION STARS DAMAGE SET TO APPEAR IN ‘FLY ON THE WALL’ TV SERIES

Digital Spy reports that hit R&B group Damage (minus Coree Richards) will star in their own fly on the wall television series. Jade Jones, Andrez Harriett, Noel Simpson and Rahsaan J Bromfield – will be followed by cameras as they try to continue their musical comeback. Damage apparently also want to use the TV show to give viewers a glimpse inside their private lives, and to ‘give people who don’t get a chance to come into this industry a foot up’. ‘It’s []

LONDON BASED NIGERIAN COUPLE CREATE DOLLS TO HELP CHILDREN CONNECT WITH THEIR ROOTS

Raising their family in London, Nigerians Chris and Ada Ngoforo were keen for their children to stay in touch with their West African heritage. But the couple became concerned that their three young daughters didn’t speak any Igbo, one of Nigeria’s ethnic languages. “We thought amongst ourselves what we can do to actually help them to learn Igbo more,” says Chris Ngoforo. This desire to encourage their children to connect with their roots, coupled with an increasing frustration with the difficulty in []

PRINCE AND 3RDEYEGIRL PERFORM LIVE ON THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW

I really wanted to see Prince perform live in London several weeks ago but it just seemed as if the only ones privy to the following information – dates, venue details and times were ‘industry folk’, annoying famous faces and their hangers-on. I almost lost it when I saw photographs on The Daily Mail website of Kate Moss and Rita Ora (to name but a few) attending his show at Ronnie Scotts. It just looked as if only the well connected and famous []

ARISE TV 360 INTERVIEWS BLACK BRITISH ENTREPRENEUR SIMONE BRESI-ANDO

Founder of The I’mPOSSIBLE conversation and entrepreneur Simone Bresi-Ando discusses the first international edition of the  I’mPOSSIBLE Conversation which will take place in New York today (March 6th). A laptop, an idea and a dream. That is what I started out with in 2009. I still have that laptop, the ideas keep flooding in and my dreams are so big they often scare me. To get to this point has been grit, blood, sweat and tears. It’s also being random acts of []