Meeting of Minds UK

The Leading Exporter of African Narratives
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[Yemisi Adegoke @briticoyemo]

Whew, Black British writers did not hold back at all!

'Is American Fiction real?' by @emmaloffhagen

Brilliant insights from @yomiadegoke, @renireni, @CandiceC_W, Candice Braithwaite and others on the publishing industry.

https://t.co/kcLw5nvnVt

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

A scholarship (tuition fees & stipend) for Black Britons has been set up at Edinburgh University in the name of my late, great friend, the novelist Andrea Levy. Please share. Good luck. 1/2

[Arts Council England @ace_national]

📣 VACANCY 📣

Want to help develop the creative and cultural sector? 🤔

We’re hiring a Senior Relationship Manager to be based in London 📍

Find out more and apply by 31 January 👉 https://t.co/m682T15JsX

[Dr. Benjamin Abrams @bdmabrams]

Calling all UK Academics! 🎺
Do you know any PhD students working on social movements and innovation? We have just received seed funding for some work on this and we're looking for a (paid) collaborator who wants to develop their research profile in this area.

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

Teach your kids about Steve Biko, Kwame Nkrumah, Samora Machel, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Julius Nyerere, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Teach your kids about African heroes that look like them.

[Action for Race Equality @AREtweets_]

The @guardian announces new roles in the Caribbean, South America and Africa, and expands its reporting on race in the UK and US as part of #restorativejustice work:

https://t.co/T886Lj4tXA

[Michael Morgan @mikecmorgan]

‘If you are Black you are more likely to be stopped, searched, handcuffed, tasered and use of force against you.’

Baroness Casey’s tell it like it is without fear or favour approach is just so refreshing.

[Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA @ananya_jahanara]

Who would like to do a PhD under my supervision at @KingsCollegeLon? We are offering a fully funded Harold Moody PGR studentship for a a British person from an ‘underrepresented community.’ Apply/ spread the word!

[Young Historians Project @yhp_uk]

Outrage over UK university’s plan to cut African history course and its professor

“Nearly 5,000 people have signed a petition against Adi’s proposed redundancy and suspension of recruitment for the course.”https://t.co/Es6yGh3RbN

[Kike Oniwinde Agoro @KikeOniwinde]

SPAC Nation are a stain on the Black British community and it’s truly time we stop engaging with this cult.

Mariam and Phadria should be embarrassed and people need to stop doing business with them or endorsing them.

https://t.co/aS6bghVhoO

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt, informing him about the potential for an atomic bomb. Einstein recommended the Shinkolobwe mine in Congo as the best source for Uranium for the bomb. The Shinkolobwe mine then operated by Belgian firm African Metal Corp.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. In 2021, worth $72 million, it was returned to their descendents by Senate Bill 796.

In 1912, Black Californians Charles and Willa Bruce bought a small slice of Manhattan Beach real estate for around $1,200. They built a resort for fellow Black families in the area who found themselves unwelcome at Whites-only beaches, even renting out bathing suits and selling snacks — and they were almost immediately subjected to racist attacks. Everyone from neighbors, the police, the city council, and even the Ku Klux Klan tried to close the beach down. The city imposed 10-minute parking limits near the beach to try and discourage visitors, and finally in 1924, the Manhattan Beach city council just seized the property entirely, offering the Bruces a fraction of their asking price. Today, the stretch of beach is worth around $20 million — and Los Angeles County voted to finally return it to the Bruces' descendants in 2021.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

49 years ago today, Martin Luther King’s mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while in church. 6 years after her son was gunned down in Memphis.

Alfred Daniel King, brother to MLK, mysteriously died in a swimming pool, 15 months after his brother’s assassination.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Asian Americans, & Asians more generally, should hang their head in deep shame for the role played by some of us in ending #AffirmativeAction. Been played for fools by white supremacy, used once again to put the jackboot on the Black people & the descendants of the enslaved.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates).

She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger.

She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked.

Horrible.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Black Mothers suffer in silence through fear of reprisals and the care towards them becoming worse should they complain

Black mothers are 4 times more likely to die during childbirth. Majority of these deaths are preventable

The time for action on Black maternal health is now!