Real Reads
Aug 2020
From Beauty Positivity to Beauty Neutrality: Divestment is the Only Solution
The system of beauty is predicated on exclusion; that is how a hierarchy works
Aug 2020
Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparation March: 7 Years On
The event aims to promote the necessity of stopping the genocide and ecocide of Afrikan people and our environments
Jul 2020
A biopic about ‘Black Mozart’, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is coming to cinemas
Joseph Boulogne, was a prolific 18th-century French composer once dubbed the ‘Black Mozart’
Jul 2020
London based digital start-up showcases talent from around the world
Community-based service providers are given new opportunities for growth via rising fashion, hair and beauty platform
Jul 2020
Artist Nicholle Kobi Leads Animated African Queens Series in Erik Barmack’s ‘Queens’
“Queens” is an attempt to reclaim for Black people around the world a history that has been denied them by mainstream media and public education
Jul 2020
Metallic Inc is dedicated to building a Black creative future
A new grant and mentorship scheme is empowering tomorrow’s most inspiring Black creative voices today
Jul 2020
‘Hero without a Grave’ – Lumumba’s daughter writes to Belgium demanding return of father’s relics
“The remains of Patrice Emery Lumumba are being used on the one hand as trophies by some of your fellow citizens, and on the other as funereal possessions”
Jul 2020
Learn how to secure a fashion role in this new GlamObserver podcast
Learn how you can make it into the fashion industry, even if you didn’t study fashion
Jul 2020
Time for change: Disabled people’s needs ignored by the UK fashion industry
The one size fits all approach excludes many, which is a phenomena felt by minority groups, none more so than the disabled community
Jul 2020
The History of Policing in America
In the South, the economics that drove the creation of police forces were centered not on the protection of shipping interests, but on the preservation of the slavery system
Jul 2020
We can’t erase outdated TV shows, but we can hold their views to account
Cleaning up our past erases evidence of how views that we would now consider reprehensible were once normalised
Jul 2020
New book denounces racism afflicting the Church of England and society at large
Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England has been described as ‘storytelling that speaks truth to power’