UK TV: THE BIG REUNION – SERIES 2 TEASER
Check out the teaser for Series 2 and follow the stories of A1, 3T, Damage, Eternal, Girl Thing and 5th Story, coming soon on ITV2. Via The Cocoa Diaries
BBC WORLD PRESENTER KOMLA DUMOR DIES
It has been reported that BBC TV presenter Komla Dumor has died at his home in London. He was 41 years old. Ghana-born Dumor was a presenter for BBC World News and its Focus on Africa programme. One of Ghana’s best-known journalists, he joined the BBC as a radio broadcaster in 2007 after a decade of journalism in Ghana. Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama said on Twitter that his country had lost one of its finest ambassadors. BBC Global News Director Peter Horrocks […]
UK NEWS: IPCC APOLOGISES TO THE DUGGAN FAMILY FOR SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION
The IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for “wrongly” telling the media he had fired at police before he was shot dead in 2011. Via BBC News The Independent Police Complaints Commission’s chair Dame Anne Owers met the family of Mr Duggan on Tuesday. The IPCC said it would look into how “police responded to intelligence”. It also promised to interview some “key witnesses” who had previously declined to speak and those whose accounts were “inconsistent with other […]
OPPORTUNITIES: MEDIA TRUST – BREAKING IN TO NEWS
Want to be mentored by experienced top journalists and learn how a newsroom works? This is your chance to Break Into News! Maybe you shoot films with your friends at the weekends, you’re part of a local film club or blog about what you see on your screen. Maybe you’ve never created your own media but have a passion you’re keen to explore. If you’re 18-25-years-old with limited media or broadcasting experience, this is your chance to be mentored by top journalists and […]
UK NEWS: WOMAN “OFFENDED” OVER COMPUTER GENERATED NHS PASSWORD, BUT CALLS HERSELF ‘PRINCESS DARKIE’ ON INSTAGRAM
Oh dear… Via The Daily Mail A black woman is demanding an apology from NHS chiefs after she was sent a letter saying her password was set as ‘charcoal shade’ for a hospital website. Leanda Probert, 31, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was horrified when she discovered the ‘highly offensive’ password in a letter asking her to book an online appointment with a pain management clinic. The mother-of-one, who suffers from crippling condition fibromyalgia, said she thought NHS North Somerset was ‘having a laugh’ […]
THE VOICE NEWSPAPER FRONT COVER: DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY – ‘WHO IS NEXT?’
For over 50 years hundreds of black people have been unlawfully killed in police custody in Britain. Last week a jury found that an UNARMED Mark Duggan was LAWFULLY killed by the police in 2011 (Click Here to read). In this week’s issue of The Voice the newspaper asks ‘who is next?’
BBC RADIO AND BBC 1XTRA TO MARK ‘WOMEN’S DAY’ WITH ALL FEMALE LINE UP
BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1xtra will mark this years ‘International Women’s Day’ with an all-female line-up for 12 hours on two nights. Radio 1 Controller Ben Cooper said: “It’s fantastic that Radio 1 and 1Xtra has such a wide range of female specialist DJs. We are committed to giving opportunities to the best DJs in the world and you are going to hear something very special to celebrate International Women’s Day.” Check the schedule below. Friday 7th March 2014 7-9pm Annie Mac […]
BLACK BRITISH RADIO STATION BAN’S JAY Z’S ‘DRUNK IN LOVE’ LYRICS
Black British Internet radio station Bang Radio has announced that they will wipe Jay Z’s lyrics (“eat the cake Anna Mae I said eat the cake Anna Mae”) from Beyonce’s new single ‘Drunk In Love’. After discovering that the rapper’s verse references the abuse that singer Tina Turner suffered at the hands of her former husband Ike Turner, station executives decided to ban the verse. Bang Media CEO Jennifer Ogole said in a written statement: The lyrics derive from the film What’s Love […]
THE WOMAN BEHIND THE LENS: DEBRA ODUTUYO – CREATOR OF ‘MEET THE ADEBANJO’S
DIRECTOR STEVE MCQUEEN SET TO MAKE ‘EPIC’ BBC BLACK BRITISH EXPERIENCE DRAMA
Shadow and Act reports that award-winning director Steve McQueen is planning to make a BBC drama on the black experience in Britain, from 1968 to 2014. McQueen says the series will be “epic in scope,” and will chronicle the lives of a group of friends and their families from 1968 to 2014. He added: “I don’t think there has been a serious drama series in Britain with black people from all walks of life as the main protagonists.“ … But Steve what about the Channel 4 […]
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