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UK NEWS: PEOPLE TAKE TO THE STREETS TO CELEBRATE MARGARET THATCHER’S DEATH

April 9, 2013

After it was announced yesterday that former prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher had died her critics took to the streets in celebration across the country.  In Brixton, Glasgow and Leeds people opened champagne and cheered, shouting: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead”. The celebrations continued in to the early hours of this morning and police struggled to disperse the crowds that gathered. (Interestingly enough I did not see any black people celebrating Thatcher’s death outside The Ritzy in Brixton). Yesterday The Daily Telegraph closed their online comment section because of the abuse aimed at Thatcher and […]

FORMER PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER DIES

April 8, 2013

The BBC reports that former prime minister Baroness Thatcher has died. She was 87 years old. Her spokesman Lord Bell issued the following statement: “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.” Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first woman to hold the post. I have always found her strangely fascinating. She was as hard as nails. I look forward to watching the up […]

VIDEO: VOCAL POWERHOUSE KIM MAZELLE AUDITIONS ON THE VOICE UK

April 7, 2013

When vocal powerhouse and House music legend Kim Mazelle appeared on The Voice UK last night I just could not believe what I was seeing. I am still shaking my head in disbelief. Why Kym why??? This woman does not need a show like The Voice.  And none of those judges could EVER school Kym on how to sing. It was just so awkward and I got the distinct impression that Kym was a little taken back when she announced her name and none of the judges knew who she was (look at […]

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

April 5, 2013

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 […]

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

April 3, 2013

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

April 2, 2013

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 […]