Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

1st Black Children’s author born in Wales 🧜🏾‍♀️ Director | Historian | Translator @TranslatesLily Former PM Decolonising Collections @AmgueddfaCymru 😉

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

https://t.co/FX0PcNRtlh

[Wales Office @WalesOffice]

It’s #BlackHistoryMonth, a time to focus on and celebrate black communities in the UK. We spoke to Wales’ first Black children’s author @JDunrod to find out what #BHM means to her.

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

Can’t believe I’m watching on TB someone I know preparing to go to space & orbit the moon.

Good luck Jeremy! 🙏🏾🚀✌🏾

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

Happy St David’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Today also marks 1 year since we launched “The Powerful Life of Billy Boston” in honour of the greatest rugby player on record.

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

This month marks 5 years since the publication of Your Hair is Your Crown 🥹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚

[Citizens Advice SNPT @CASNPT]

Jessica Dunrod is from Cardiff and believed to be the first black and Welsh children's author. She writes books influenced by her Welsh-West Indian heritage and Wales' historical multicultural society. Her first book was Your Hair is your Crown. #BHCymru365

[Citizens Advice SNPT @CASNPT]

Mae Jessica Dunrod o Gaerdydd ac yn cael ei hystyried yr awdures blant du Gymreig gyntaf. Mae hi'n ysgrifennu llyfrau sy'n adlewyrchu dylanwad ei hetifeddiaeth Gymreig, India'r Gorllewin a chymdeithas amlddiwylliannol hanesyddol Cymru. #BHCymru365

[Caribbean Cooking @CaribCookSchool]

Wilfred bringing the heritage flavours @theblackfarmer - @matthewsamuels0 @JBGill @JDunrod @ppvernon @FloellaBenjamin @BlacAwards @UKBBSHOW @BlackpoundUK @NadineSandcroft

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

@Sarah_OSBX @ILovesTheDiff @AleighciaSings @jasonmohammad @Mrs_Aziz_ @bossandbrew @TigerBayABC @RadioCardiff @shavtaj See you there! I can’t RT because your tweets are protected, may I screen shot the image and share plz?

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

@kinsleysteph76 I like to tell people that if they can’t pronounce the “Ll” then it’s highly probable they are not good kissers 😂🙃

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

Another epic bonfire in the Valleys, Penrhys 🔥

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

@FREENATIVECYRM @CymraegCorrect That technicality doesn’t neutralise Welsh blame in the trade of life and flesh, plenty of Welsh surnames & street names are still littered across the Caribbean because we the Welsh were very much involved. Slave Wales is a Great book should you wish to read more into this

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

I’m all for Welsh independence but selectively omitting Wales from this context to position this narrative is distasteful to say the least

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

Wales’ Caribbean Amnesia

[Wici Cymru @WiciCymru]

On this day in 1981 - independence of 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England / the UK.

Population:
🇦🇬 = 100,772
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 = 3,131,640

FACT:
🇦🇬 can participate / vote in the UN.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is held back, gagged from doing so.

#IndyWales #Annibyniaeth @YesCymru

[Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew @TerranceDrewSKN]

St. Kitts and Nevis will donate USD $100,000 to support Jamaica’s recovery efforts. We stand together as one people.

https://t.co/PttZxOvVhy

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

@PaulMathUn We live in hope 🙏🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

Celebrating St. Kitts & Nevis Independence Day is like having an extra Christmas to look forward to each year 🇰🇳

I wish one day Wales could enjoy that feeling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Sharp End @SharpEndITV]

"We are pro-independence, the people of Wales know that, it's bringing people with us"

@Heledd_Plaid responds to claims that Plaid Cymru are veering away from talking about independence ahead of the Senedd election

#SharpEnd

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

Will be playing D’Angelo playlists on repeat for the foreseeable

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

We in Wales need to do better at teaching our own history in our schools, the good and painful.

That was supposed to be the point in decolonising @AmgueddfaCymru - to correct the erasure of our local & global 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 history.

They prioritised their racism over sharing Welsh history

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

Today marks 112 years since the worst mining disaster in the history of the UK, the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster.

440 people died following the events of that morning.

Today, we remember them.

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

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[LBC News Wales @LBCNewsWales]

Investigations have opened into a burglary at St. Fagans national museum of history in Cardiff.

Police say bronze age jewellery was stolen from a display case there early on Monday morning.

Museum Wales says it's saddened by the 'targeted attack'

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

Thought I’d share this again 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

@LSRPlaid uses this as an op to get our objects back to wales (fair enough)

But having witnessed the mismanagement & ineptitude of the @AmgueddfaCymru leadership the past year there’s a case to argue that AC wouldn’t know if objects are missing or not from there…

[Jessica ap Dunrod 🇰🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JDunrod]

@_designboy111 @llantwit @bowlofcrisps Sending you a big hug x