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Janice aka Miss Mad News

UK EVENT: THE I’MPOSSIBLE CONVERSATION (YOUTH EDITION)

The beginning of a dream realised. When I’mPOSSIBLE started in 2009 we were very aware of the mammoth task ahead of us.  Rebalancing the negative rhetoric around women of colour, getting this group to define success on its own terms and most of all, getting young girls of colour to realise their possibilities through presenting the life journeys of others who look like them and are POSSIBLE.  This event particularly ties into one of the organisation’s goals of helping to change the []

VIDEO: SNOOP LION FT CORI B AND DRAKE – NO GUNS ALLOWED

Snoop has chosen to address a serious subject matter here but I laughed through most of this. As soon as the music starts and Snoop starts singing in a fake accent its a wrap.  I just cannot take this Snoop Lion character seriously.  I just can’t. For those of you wondering who the singer Cori B is … she is Snoop’s daughter. Your thoughts please. Hit or Miss?

THE FIRST EVER AFROBEATS MUSICAL ‘OLIVA TWEEST’ SET TO HIT LONDON’S WEST END

Taking place on April 15 at the Lyric Theatre (home of Thriller: The Musical) at the heart of London’s West End, OLIVA TWEEST is the very first play of its kind to feature in London’s West End – a legendary and prestigious Theatre hub renowned the world over – and will feature some of the most popular faces in the burgeoning U.K Afrobeats landscape. The story, which is based on D’Banj’s 2012 HIT single “Oliver Twist”, is set in present day London []

UK NEWS: MOTHER AND FATHER FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING THEIR CHILDREN IN BOTCHED ARSON PLOT

Via The Daily Mail Mick and Mairead Philpott were today found  guilty of killing six of their children in a house fire in Derby as part of a  botched attempt to frame his former lover. The couple were convicted of the manslaughter  of their ‘babies’ after a seven-week trial where Mick Philpott repeatedly sobbed  in the dock, collapsing when the prosecution accused him of planning the fire  that ended in tragedy. But the jury refused to accept his excuse  that someone had started the []