Kanya King CBE was told Black music had no market.
She founded MOBO. 30 years later, Black music is 80% of Britain’s recorded music revenue. £24.5 billion.
She was told she was unrealistic. She built a 30-year cultural revolution. She didn’t argue. She just built. My tribute👇🏾
Meet Stephen-Lee McIlvenny.
21 years old. West Belfast.
77 charges. Rape. Child sexual abuse. Coercion.
Three boys. Aged 14–15. Targeted, blackmailed, filmed.
Sentenced to 23 years.
Not a migrant. Northern Irish.
Where was the outrage. The mob. The murals.
A six year old girl was in her home during a domestic incident. Police were called. A uniformed officer arrived to help.
That officer, PC Dean Dempster, took her away from his colleagues to take her statement. And then he sexually assaulted her.
When his devices were seized the next day.. thousands of images of children being abused. Over 100 at the most serious level. Children's underwear at his home. His own face superimposed onto child abuse images.
He spent the night after assaulting her deleting evidence from his phone.
Nine years. Sex offenders register for life.
A six year old girl called the police for help and was abused by one of the officers who showed up... 🤦🏻♀️😵💫
How are parents supposed to explain that to their children and why are we still acting surprised when predators actively seek out roles that give them access? #police #Fail #awareness #predator #share
I wrote down exactly who I want to be and what I want my life to look like. then I asked what does he do. how does he start his day. what does he eat. when does he sleep. how does he handle the hard conversations. what does his work look like. I wrote all of it down. then I just started doing it. you don't have to feel like him first. you act like him until you are him.
High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don't feel aligned.
Imma keep it 100, pls be enrolling in those MMA/boxing/jiu jitsu/kickboxing/etc classes if you can too, for your own sake! This is a gender neutral tweet too!
Compartmentalizing your friends (like not being able to mix friend groups) is a sign that you’ve set your life up in a way where it’s mandatory to wear masks and you’re living in third person pov caring way too much about how you’re being perceived
once you turn 20 you have to fight everyday for the rest of your life to not lose your personality & spirit...bc what once came naturally to you will be exhausted into nothing if you don't actively Try. it's terrifyingly easy to become a lethargic, soulless adult
Just in case you weren’t aware, the so called “patriots” are now calling Henry Nowak’s sister a “mud shark race traitor” because she has a mixed race child.
The “protests” in Southampton aren’t about his death.
They’re about rabid racism and male violence.
When Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard, Nigel Farage released a five-minute video urging people not to attack men or the police.
Today, in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, he called for "pure cold rage."
As a 25 year old the best thing you can do is have more 30 year old friends to keep telling you the importance of sleep, drinking less, working out more and not taking yourself too seriously.
But you also want to have younger frens who remind you that you are still young enough to do stupid shit.
idk if this is toxic or actually practical but i’ve learned to be very careful with the extent that you allow yourself to be entangled in the lives of others so that you always have a clean exit available
King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going