Real Reads
Sep 2020
Stop Silencing Toxicity in African Families
You call it “African Parenting”, I call it cancer — when left unchecked, it kills us all
Sep 2020
Has COVID-19 killed the ‘voluntourism’ star?
Ineffective volunteering can obscure the contextual challenges that create poverty and poor infrastructure in these regions
Sep 2020
Racial disparities in maternal healthcare: A global phenomenon
These reports represent a legacy of consistent failings in maternal healthcare for Black women in the UK
Sep 2020
It’s time to get real about how black women collectively engage with black hair
4c is the most common hair type among black women, yet is the most hidden, the most manipulated and the least represented in its raw state
Sep 2020
Can I be a Christian Pan-Africanist?
Black Christians would rather stay neutral in fake solidarity to Christianity than to say Black Lives Matter
Sep 2020
Becoming a Black woman in the land where race does not exist
Black French womanhood exists in this paradoxical state of erasure and hyper-surveillance
Sep 2020
Generational Wealth In The Black Community
Generational wealth lacks greatly in the black community compared to other ethnicities
Sep 2020
Black Students Matter: My University Experience during Lockdown
University students have not been given fair help during the pandemic
Sep 2020
The Medical School trying to become Anti-Racist
Historically, medical education was designed and written by white middle-class men, and so there is inherent racism in medicine
Sep 2020
How could we forget? The British Empire, imagination and collective amnesia
The terms in which empire was defined were superficial, essentialised and pejorative
Sep 2020
Three day celebration tackles COVID-19 for the Black tech community
As diversity in tech slips down the priority list, Colorintech tackles systemic issues of inequity
Sep 2020
Zoe Saldana apologises for playing Nina Simone: ‘She deserved better’
Actress Zoe Saldana has apologised for playing Nina Simone in a heavily criticised 2016 biopic.