AllBlackEverything

Media outlet. Journalist writing about race relations, music, business and current affairs.

[MOBO Awards @MOBOAwards]

It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.

Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.

Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.

She was a single mother from a Kilburn council estate who was told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market and that the industry was not interested. Instead of arguing, she built. Six weeks later, the first MOBO Awards was broadcast to the nation, and nothing was ever the same again.

What Kanya created was never simply an awards ceremony. It was an act of cultural justice. MOBO did not just celebrate Black music; it legitimised it, amplified it and transformed the cultural landscape of the UK.

From Stormzy, Little Simz and RAYE to Craig David, Ms. Dynamite, Amy Winehouse, Central Cee and countless others, generations of artists have benefited from Kanya King's vision.

She built a platform that reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. She was awarded a CBE and received an Ivors Academy Honour in 2025. She never stopped. She never asked for permission. She never accepted that the word “no” was final.

When she stood on the MOBO stage in Newcastle in February 2025, just months after her diagnosis, she told the audience: “I never allowed someone to define my limits. Not in life. Not in business. And I’m certainly not going to have that happen now.”

That was Kanya King. Right to the very end.

The 2026 MOBO Awards, held during the Organisation’s landmark 30th anniversary year, will be dedicated entirely to her memory.

The world was a profoundly better place with Kanya King in it. The MOBO family is heartbroken, but endlessly grateful, proud and inspired by everything she gave to music, culture and future generations.

Rest in power, Kanya.

You built this.

All of it.

[The Cannon goes Boom @yawbeats]

If the weather is like this next Sunday, this gon be me at the Arsenal parade

[The Cannon goes Boom @yawbeats]

Stand up for black people and Muslims?

[The Cannon goes Boom @yawbeats]

This PSG vs Bayern match

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Today, April 22 is Stephen Lawrence Day.🖤

33 years ago in 1993, Stephen at just 18 years was stabbed to death in a racist attack in Eltham, south east London. 🙏🏾

Today, we reflect on this death but more importantly we stand with his family and the Stephen Lawrence foundation to help build in his name for future generations.

As @sldayfdn have stated, this years theme is Every Future Needs a Foundation - to support young people and their ambitions.

Please support the Stephen Lawrence Foundation and their plans however you can.

#wewillneverforget #stephenlawrenceday

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Today marks 45 years since the 'uprising' in Brixton, known to many as the 1981 Brixton Riots.

Over 300 people injured. 82 arrested. 3 days of unrest. 1 government report.

Some say that today, 45 years on, "we are still relatively powerless".

Do you agree? Drop a comment. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
#YourVoiceMatters #brixtonuprising

[AllBlackEverything @abe_blog]

Diane Abbot should have doubled, tripled down on that article she wrote

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless.

This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism.

We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.

[Mimi the music blogger @mimitheblogger]

New substack alert 🚨

U guys probably seen the news that Black music has contributed £24.5 billion to a £30 billion market over the past 30 years, accounting for 80% of UK music income! Everyone is celebrating and I feel so JADED by it.….

This is.. THE BOARD WAS NEVER YOURS

https://t.co/kbP7rdnitK

[The Cannon goes Boom @yawbeats]

🥲

[AllBlackEverything @abe_blog]

Other than the chorus I don’t know the words to Murkle Man. I can recite every word of Pow

[Sauwse @Sauwse]

Is Murkle Man as big an anthem as Pow? (Big up Winners Talking Podcast)

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Today is the 45th Anniversary of the New Cross Fire.

Remembering all those lives lost on 18 January 1981.

#newcrossfire #wewillneverforget 🕊️

[The Cannon goes Boom @yawbeats]

No Nigeria in the World Cup?

[Sayo Thee Succulent @Simply_Sayo]

It’s Sickle Cell Awareness Month & I’m very emotional to announce ‘It Takes A Village’; my 1 year long campaign to get 16,000 new blood donors from Black heritage backgrounds.

To donate through the campaign:
https://t.co/Qr6IAYMUcI

#ITAVxSimplySayo #16kdonors #GiveBloodWithSayo

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Today is Windrush Day. Thank you to all the people who came from the Caribbean & made Britain richer. May we never forget who Britain called upon in its hour of need, but most of all, may we never forget those awaiting justice for the utmost betrayal that is the Windrush scandal

[The Cannon goes Boom @yawbeats]

No night life in London and now they don’t want day life. All because of a certain group

[AllBlackEverything @abe_blog]

Make London Loud Again

[NME @NME]

Central London to get designated “quiet zones” amid ongoing nightlife battle

The move, intended to appease local residents following noise complaints, has proved controversial already https://t.co/n8qvwf3avv

[AllBlackEverything @abe_blog]

@htothehilla Will check this out, thanks

[AllBlackEverything @abe_blog]

Music (at least some of it) is supposed to reflect the times we are in. I just don’t see that with music right now and the arts in general

[Scully @isthatscully]

Unfortunately, the UK Music SCENE isn’t good right now. There are great artists, with bare talent that deserve your ear, but the SCENE as a whole, is not healthy. & it’s no one’s fault, it’s symptomatic of what is going on GLOBALLY.