Clive Chijioke Nwonka

Associate Professor of Film, Culture & Society @ucl | Professor in Practice @bfi | Senior Visiting Fellow @LSEnews | Black Arsenal @wnbooks

[Clive Chijioke Nwonka @CJNwonka]

First author copies of Black Arsenal: Club, Culture, Identity. Amazing to see the physical outcome of nearly a decade researching @Arsenal and Black identity, difference and multiculture. A beautiful book by @wnbooks @orionbooks 🙏🏽

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

'The gravest crime against humanity': What does the UN vote on slavery mean? https://t.co/RsPAX55g56

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Belgian court clears way for trial over 1961 killing of Congo PM Lumumba https://t.co/cbZMzmMEiI

[Variety @Variety]

Susan Sarandon says she was banned from Hollywood for "speaking out about Gaza, for asking for a ceasefire."

“I was fired by my agency... It became impossible for me to even be on television. I don’t know lately if it’s changed. I couldn’t do any major film or anything connected with Hollywood. I found agents ultimately in England and in Italy, and I work there. I just did a film in Italy, and I did a play at the Old Vic for a number of months. I know this Italian director that just hired me — he was told not to hire me, so that’s still recently. He didn’t listen, but they had that conversation. Right now, I kind of specialize in tiny films with directors who have never directed, in independent films.”

https://t.co/np9WmygmZm

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Brazil: Four men, including two politicians, were found guilty in the 2018 assassination of Marielle Franco, a Black, gay, feminist councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro known for fighting corruption and systemic racism. https://t.co/U91xVYpzkZ

[Clive Chijioke Nwonka @CJNwonka]

https://t.co/20fnA4jmOA
Sadly, the essence of my Guardian piece comments came to the fore. The response of both institutions is a symptom of an industry hubris, so evident at award shows, where representation is the panacea for racism. Black visibility is not Black recognition.

[Variety @Variety]

BAFTA and the BBC failed Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo, the Tourette's community and viewers when they allowed the N-word to be aired during the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony.

With a tape delay, this moment could have been handled differently. The audio could have been muted in the broadcast. The segment could have been edited. Instead, the slur went out. And now it lives online — free to be clipped, circulated, divorced from explanation and used as shorthand outrage. Or worse, it can be used to spread hate. https://t.co/7RYqGI5zLO

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

When it comes to Jose Mourinho's comments about Vinicius Junior alleging he was racially abused by a Benfica player, it is difficult to know where to start.

But the line about Benfica legend Eusebio is as good a place as any.

The idea that because the greatest player in the club’s history is Black, therefore nobody connected with them could possibly be racist, is at best surreal and absurd, at worst vicious gaslighting.

Mourinho was, in effect, telling Vinicius that he didn’t hear what he says he heard — because there’s a statue of a black footballer outside Estadio da Luz.

Then there’s the criticism of Vinicius for celebrating in what Mourinho deems to be an inappropriate manner.

And then the killer, the repeated slur that is often aimed towards Vinicius. The implication that this is all his fault.

“There is something wrong because it happens in every stadium. Every stadium where Vinicius plays, something happens. Always.”

This was a night that Jose Mourinho sunk to a new low, writes @NickMiller79.

https://t.co/WbJaP7jPkS

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Music legend Fela Kuti becomes first African to get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award https://t.co/shElPHbypv

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

A Windrush generation man who fell into a coma from undiagnosed diabetes was forced to sleep in a bus shelter when he was discharged from hospital after he was classed as ineligible for state-funded homelessness support. https://t.co/Av1y0ozqWf

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” broke the all-time Oscar nomination record with 16 nods, including best picture and best actor. https://t.co/klTyUqcdCv

[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 🕊️

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"I got tortured by my own friends" for not selling drugs, 17-year-old Dontae says.

Across the UK, thousands of young people are being groomed into so-called county lines drug networks, where promises of money and belonging quickly turn into threats, violence and debt.

Channel 4 News was given rare access to those affected by county lines crimes including Dontae, a teenager, who said "his face was set on fire" for refusing to engage in illegal activity.

[Grenfell United @GrenfellUnited]

103 months since 72 lives were taken at Grenfell.

This week the banners will move down the Tower for the final time before it disappears from the skyline, well before anyone might be held accountable.

Please keep Grenfell in your hearts,your minds,and your conversations💚

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This is now the official account of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Welcome to a new era for NYC.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

‘Feed the Scousers’ is the unwelcome soundtrack to festive football on Merseyside.

It’s not tribal ‘banter’: it’s tedious and offensive.

But when Arsenal fans became the latest to sing it at Everton on Saturday, the hosts had a perfect response.

📝 @Paddy_Boyland

🔗 https://t.co/zqz60bmlV4

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

For years, the Post Office and Fujitsu covered up the bugs in their faulty Horizon computer software, blaming the subpostmasters using it.

Thousands had their lives ruined. Some took their own lives.

Now Channel 4 News has obtained a 2006 contract between the two companies - overlooked despite being uploaded to the Post Office Inquiry's website - which a forensic accountant who investigated the Horizon scandal has described as "dynamite".

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

In light of the utterly damning & frankly hideous findings of the IOPC @policeconduct investigation into police conduct re Hillsborough, I have written to the Govt to seek the removal of the Knighthood from Norman Bettison - as this is the only remaining sanction left for families and survivors to pursue. #JFT97 #HillsboroughLawNow

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
https://t.co/7tewUOBm0A

[SymeonBrown @symeonbrown]

In Johannesburg a movement of socialites are encouraging women to reject 'broke' men and date rich but beneath the glamour are they leading young girls to be sex trafficked? For @UnreportedWorld we went to Jo'berg to meet South Africa's 'Slay Queens' https://t.co/MCfhL0BMXd

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

@Tate's Nigerian Modernism: Art and Independence is a timely exhibition that brings together the pioneers of a diasporic movement invested in freedom, optimism and collective vision, writes @CJNwonka.
https://t.co/tB0ypyrWuX