Sixteen years ago, Akala, Sway Dasafo, Black The Ripper, and I recorded a song called the “Yours and My Children”.
It is sad to think only two of us are left now. I hope their children take pride in the legacies they left.
Parts of Jason Arday’s life were ridiculed in the press but now a Byline Times investigation says it has found records, analysis and evidence supporting Jason’s accounts.
This is devastating🧵
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Novara And Integrity, Don’t Belong In The Same Sentence
Novara Media didn’t lose its journalistic integrity over Jason Arday; it exposed, once again, that it never any to begin with. It parroted right-wing narratives, mocked a Black academic, then preached “measured” coverage. That isn’t neutrality, it’s them unashamedly showing us their true colours.
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These are concentration camps, and the people held in them are being starved, beaten, raped, and deprived of medical attention. This is barbaric but not much different from how all prisons are operated in this country. Nobody deserves to be subjected to this treatment.
UK academia is chock full of white people failing up. White women have been the main beneficiaries of the DEI industry that white academia invented and that many of us have critiqued for years as replicating systemic racism rather than dismantling it.
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I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.
I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.
I was looking for my family.
My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.
I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.
I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.
Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.
It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.
The realization stayed with me.
Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.
I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.
It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.
Yes. Regeneration. Investing in the community. Social housing. Community events. Why can you only imagine improvements being a Gail’s and landlords tripling the rent?
SZA, Doechii, Queen Latifah, Common, Doja Cat, Tierra Whack, Lizzo, Rapsody, Selah (daughter of Lauryn Hill), Nas, and many other artists shared the stage to pay tribute to living legend Lauryn Hill at the 2026 BET Awards.
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Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.
Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.
That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.
The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.
Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.
Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.
As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.
Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.