Today is World Sickle Cell Day & I’m reminded of 16yo Rebecca who received a bone marrow transplant from her sister Sayo to cure her of sickle cell. Their story captures exactly why people with sickle cell are true warriors & the importance of advocacy 💪🏾 https://t.co/2XflomowMo
NEW: Last surviving relative appeals to find missing brother who was last seen in 1988 in London 🙏🏾🥹
Ian Bushell was reported missing by his father in 1988, when he was aged 21.
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"Being black is a creative act. You have to create your world every single day because the world wasn't built for you. That makes us the ultimate architects."- Andre 3000.
Désolée mais je pense que dépenser de l’argent pour rendre la vie impossible aux SDF plutôt que pour les aider c’est le symbole parfait d’un système dépourvu d’humanité
A pregnant Muslim woman was kicked in the stomach in a Co-op car park in Milton Keynes.
He called her the “f***ing problem with this place,” attacked her “clown clothes”.
Hit her with a wine bottle and bag of ice.
Kicked her in the stomach twice after she told him she was pregnant
She lost her unborn twins.
The judge called her attacker a “shabby racist.”
A ‘SHABBY’ racist.
Not a TERRORIST.
Not a MONSTER.
He served under 2 years. He’s been walking free since 2020. Samsam Haji-Ali’s twins are still dead.
If he’d been Muslim, this would have led every news bulletin as a terror attack.
Thirty worshippers were inside the Zainabia Islamic Centre when a petrol bomb was thrown onto the roof. They put out the fire themselves.
These attacks didn’t all happen this week.
They happened years apart. That’s the point. People forgot. Our system doesn’t.
The Women and Equalities Committee’s first-ever inquiry into gendered Islamophobia, published January 2026 (HC 571), documented over 6,000 verified incidents in 2024 — a 165% rise since 2022.
73% of assaults came after the summer riots.
65% targeted women and girls.
The Muslim Women’s Network UK surveyed women before and after the riots. Before — 16% feared for their safety. After — 75%.
Home Office figures show anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 19% last year. Muslims are the target of 44% of all religious hate crimes. Only 6% result in charges.
The government’s Hate Crime Action Plan expired in 2020. No replacement has been published in six years.
They let 3 women dressed in burqas strip off to the chants of “take it off”
They let hate marches happen across the UK.
Anti Islam murals across Northern Ireland.
They proscribed Palestine Action as terrorists.
And they still refuse to use the word Islamophobia.
The system is broken.
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Today marks 9 years since the Grenfell Tower fire.
But 9 years on, there is still no justice.
9 years on & people still live in unsafe buildings.
We must not forget those killed because of dishonesty and corporate greed.
A deaf black man is opening a coffee and arts shop in south London, SE18 3TB, grand opening is 13 June. All coffee and pastries are £1 for the day, go support.
She was kidnapped first.
She suffered the longest.
And when another captive woman went into labor inside that house with no doctor, no hospital, and no help coming…
Michelle Knight delivered the baby herself.
With her bare hands.
But when the world learned about the horrors inside Ariel Castro’s house in Cleveland, her name was barely mentioned.
In August 2002, 21-year-old Michelle Knight was walking to a social services appointment when Castro offered her a ride.
Instead, he kidnapped her.
Locked her in a room.
Chained her up.
When she vanished, almost nobody looked for her.
Michelle came from poverty. She struggled with housing instability and a custody battle over her son.
Authorities quietly assumed she had simply “disappeared on her own.”
No major searches.
No national coverage.
No constant headlines.
Her case went cold almost immediately.
Then, in 2003, Castro kidnapped 16-year-old Amanda Berry.
The response was massive.
TV coverage.
FBI involvement.
Vigils.
Billboards.
The entire city knew Amanda’s name.
In 2004, he kidnapped 14-year-old Gina DeJesus.
Again, the community rallied around the search.
But inside the same house, Michelle had already been trapped for years.
She endured horrific abuse.
She became pregnant multiple times and lost every pregnancy due to Castro’s violence.
He repeatedly told her nobody was coming for her.
Then came Christmas Day, 2006.
Amanda Berry went into labor inside the house.
Castro threatened Michelle’s life if the baby died — then left.
Amanda was terrified.
Michelle had no medical equipment.
No training in childbirth.
But she stepped in anyway.
The baby girl wasn’t breathing when she was born.
Michelle performed CPR until the infant finally cried.
Inside one of the darkest places imaginable, a forgotten woman saved two lives.
In May 2013, Amanda escaped and called 911.
Police rescued all three women and Amanda’s six-year-old daughter.
The reunions flooded national television.
Amanda and Gina were embraced by the world.
Michelle walked out of the same house into a very different reality.
Even after surviving 11 years of captivity, she was often treated like an afterthought.
Later, she spoke openly about it.
Not with bitterness.
With honesty.
She wrote a memoir called Finding Me and explained the deeper pain of realizing the world had quietly decided she wasn’t important enough to search for.
Eventually, she legally changed her name to Lily Rose Lee.
A name she chose for herself.
A life reclaimed on her own terms.
Today, Lily Rose Lee advocates for missing people who are ignored because of poverty, addiction, unstable lives, or social status.
Her message is simple:
Every missing person deserves to be searched for.
Not just the ones society finds easier to care about.
Ariel Castro died in prison.
But Lily Rose Lee survived.
And the woman who once saved a baby in captivity now spends her life making sure nobody else is forgotten the way she was.
We are devastated to hear the news of the passing of the legend and our dear friend, @kanyaking 💔 She was an incredible woman who selflessly paved the way for thousands of people.
Thank you for everything , Kanya. You will never be forgotten. Rest in perfect peace. 🕊️🖤
This is Alex Skeel. He survived.
Alex was subjected to years of physical and psychological abuse by his girlfriend, Jordan Worth. She controlled every part of his life, deciding what he wore, who he spoke to, and when he could see his family.
She assaulted him, starved him, and refused to let him get medical help for serious injuries. When police found him, he was just days away from death.
She became the first woman in the UK to be convicted under the coercive control law. She was jailed for seven and a half years.
Alex’s story is proof that domestic violence doesn’t only affect women. Men can be victims too, and many suffer in silence out of shame or fear they won’t be believed.