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Janice aka Miss Mad News

FUTURE LEADERS MAGAZINE: CELEBRATING THE UK’S MOST OUTSTANDING BLACK STUDENTS AND GRADUATES

Published by Powerful Media Ltd, Future Leaders magazine is used as an inspirational tool for younger students from Britain’s African and African Caribbean communities, and each year copies are sent, free-of-charge, to schools and colleges across the UK, with a special focus on hard-to-reach and underperforming students. This years’ edition, the 5th, was launched at the prestigious Plaisterers Hall, in St Pauls, London this week, and is sponsored by Barclays, with renowned global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company and the University of []

COMEDIAN JIMMY KIMMEL EXPERIENCES THE FULL WRATH OF KANYE OVER BBC RADIO INTERVIEW

US comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is quaking in his boots after upsetting Kanye West. After Kanye’s interview with BBC Radio’s Zane Lowe hit the Internet, Jimmy came up with the hilarious spoof below. … Last night Kanye was not a happy bunny and took to Twitter to vent. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383383748835676160 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383383962984259584 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383384265880133633 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383384326169055232 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383385534803894272 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383387111140777984 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383387143432728576 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383387325994004480 https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/383392530319941632 And in response to Kanye’s Twitter rant a visibly shaken Kimmel said… … Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha This is what happens Kanye when you attempt []

BEFFTA AWARDS UK NOMINATIONS LIST 2013 / MAD NEWS RECEIVES NOMINATION

Last night the 5th annual BEFFTA (Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television and Arts) UK press and nomination launch took place in Mayfair London. BEFFTA really should be in the Guinness Book Of Records for compiling the longest nomination lists known to man each year.  It always seems like EVERYONE throughout the African diaspora receives a nomination. Hahaha. Anyway I would like to take this opportunity to announce that Mad News has been nominated for ‘Best Community News Website’. Thank you BEFFTA! 😀 Check out the []

VIDEO: ZANE LOWE INTERVIEWS KANYE WEST (FULL INTERVIEW)

BBC Radio’s Zane Lowe gushes all over Kanye West in the first of a special four part interview. Watch Kanye chat out of his batty below. … … … … *HUGE SIGH* Where to begin…. For a start I wish he would stop saying the word “nigger”.  It’s bad enough when he says the word constantly in his music but in a BBC Radio interview with Zane Lowe that will be watched by millions… it just makes me want to rip his []

UK TV: EASTENDERS AXE CHARACTERS SAM AND AVA (WELL THAT DIDN’T LAST FOR VERY LONG…)

Via Digital Spy EastEnders characters Sam James and Ava Hartman will both be leaving the soap later this year, Digital Spy can exclusively reveal. The Walford couple, played by Cornell S John and Clare Perkins, will bow out on screen as the Hartman family’s ongoing transplant storyline reaches its natural conclusion. Continue Reading…. Well the inclusion of this latest black family “unit” didn’t last for very long did it? I am sure the Taverneirs were on our screens back in the early 1990s for longer (old skool Eastenders []

BBC ONE TO BROADCAST THE STEPHEN LAWRENCE ‘UNITY’ CONCERT

Via The BBC Media Centre The BBC will broadcast highlights from The Stephen Lawrence Unity Concert on Tuesday 1 October at 10.35-11.35pm on BBC One. The concert, in memory of Stephen Lawrence, comes 20 years after the 18 year old was stabbed to death by racists in South East London, and unites some of music’s biggest names for a special show. BBC One will broadcast a 60-minute show from the performance held on Sunday 29 September, with the concert also being repeated []

UK RADIO NEWS: DJ 279 TALKS TO ‘THE BRITISH BLACK LIST’ ABOUT CHOICE FM AXING / MY THOUGHTS

Last week DJ 279 (also known as Numbers) officially announced that he had been “let go” by Choice FM (Click Here to read if you missed it). On Saturday night his replacement (rival/nemesis) Tim Westwood  “blasted off” with his first ever Hip Hop/Rap show on Choice FM. In response to his axing DJ 279 spoke exclusively to The British Black List . I took a couple phone calls (on September 14) and people were like ‘Westwood’s gonna be joining Choice…”. Numbers received []