#19

[Zee✰ @zeeuntitled]

i really don't get why ppl obviously not in community with black brits keep on making blanket statements about us

[#19 @ta_ea1]

I thought it was ok at best but I like how this movie understands the character of Superman better than last movie interpretation.

[#19 @ta_ea1]

I often view D'Angelo (RIP) as the alternative answer to this what-if scenario, since he also has a small discography, yet with his limited releases, he still managed to make great bodies of work after his debut.

[#19 @ta_ea1]

Hmm....

[Mel Smith @iamMelsmith]

My unpopular opinion: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is more than enough evidence for Lauryn Hill’s legendary status. There aren’t many albums as expansive and flawless as Songs in the Key of Life. Miseducation is one.

[#19 @ta_ea1]

It begs the question: had Lauryn Hill continued to release albums after Miseducation, would she still be revered as she is now?

[Tianna, the Writer @tiannathewriter]

I said it on tiktok 2 weeks ago but it's funny how Londoners always talk about Black people outside of London being coons when London has it's own, distinct form of coonism. Specifically, Black Londoners who think their white friends are black. They are white, beloved.

[liam rosenior updates @cinetamarisfan]

Wah gwaan is directly from patois there’s nothing about that term that has been changed from its original context to be classified as “urban culture”

[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.

[joseph @jojoldn]

don’t get it twisted u defo sit in the same pocket as him

[#19 @ta_ea1]

And this is how you get moments like this:
https://t.co/qBCO8gdDKS

[gangan out now! 🇭🇹 @johnnyspliffs]

Ppl in love with London so much they’ll let non black ppl launder black culture under the London umbrella

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Peabo Bryson, singer-songwriter behind ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘A Whole New World,’ has died at the age of 75.

[💎 @insiderassasin]

Well….

[Sydd @SyddRELOADED]

Sympathy is capped because when people said Alhan is a culture vulture these lot stood by him.

The “it’s not that deep Blacks” can’t hear so they must feel.

[Junior @ja_cynic]

His stage name is Ghost

[#19 @ta_ea1]

This and Lucozade

[Fireball @CleanRas]

I miss strawberry ribena before sugar tax

[🇻🇮Nato Jacobs🇬🇩 @JohniFlash]

Of course we are. A lot of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.

[Ian Ayler @Nai1216]

This Is A Retweet: Find Her: Aaliyah

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[Kehinde Andrews @kehinde_andrews]

SAVE #BlackStudiesBCU

@MyBCU has cut the MA Black Studies and Global Justice with NO notice or consultation AND targeted the 5 Black members of staff for potential risk of redundancy

Read the open letter to the Board of Governors and add your name:
https://t.co/nYcKxMMOas

[gigantic pussy having george michael stan @sheixx_]

I would absolutely never step to someone with a Slazenger accent 😭😭