Aug 22, 202014 minLiara Tamani on poetry, female sexuality, and racial representation in fictionRecently, I had a chat with author Liara Tamani from Houston, Texas (H-Town!). We started talking about what life’s been like for her in ...
Aug 15, 20202 minNon-fiction Authors You Should Be ReadingMichelle Obama - Becoming We all love Michelle Obama, let's be honest. Her autobiography offers insight into her life, and how it has bee...
Aug 15, 20202 minFiction Authors You Should Be ReadingNicola Yoon The Sun Is Also A Star - Natasha's family is about to be deported, and she will do everything she can to stop it, when she me...
Aug 9, 20204 minWhy it is so important to have more voices of colour in the British mediaLiving in a multicultural society, it is so important to have racial diversity in jobs, and in high up positions within companies. The im...
Jul 29, 20202 minPoetry 29/07/20My name is Gabrielle, I am a fourteen year old, mixed raced girl from England, and poetry is my way of educating and speaking about cause...
Jul 24, 20203 min6 Sustainable UK Fashion Brands The fashion industry is the second largest polluter. Many high-street brands tend to greenwash, by claiming to be improving through ethos...
Jul 24, 20207 minLet's Talk About ColourismThe term colourism was coined by activist and Pulitzer prize winner Alice Walker. She described it as the prejudicial or preferential tre...
Jul 8, 20204 minDetangling the Roots: A History of HairYeah I know what you're thinking, another one about hair? In fifteenth century African civilisations, hairstyles were an expression of id...
Jul 7, 20202 minPoetry 7/7/20Thanks so much to the people who sent these poems in! Hope it makes ya'll smile. They wanted to stay anonymous. Enjoy x Angels I've got t...
Jun 25, 20202 minHair discrimination in the workplace Hair discrimination is something we have all experienced, whether it's overt or subtle. Every black person I know has either at some poin...
Jun 25, 20209 minDoes the racial divide really exist?I've always avoided Facebook, saying it's for middle aged people, middle class mothers, and those people from high school who just post a...
Jun 25, 20205 min5 Ways to keep your hair on pointIn the words of Phoebe Waller Bridge - "“Hair is everything. We wish it wasn’t so we could actually think about something else occasional...
Jun 25, 20202 minWelcome to Black-is-beautifulWelcome to BIB. So far in life, I've always been either the only, or one of a few black people wherever I've been (I am mixed race but I’...
