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  • How Reggie Yates went from kids’ TV to confronting neo-Nazis The Guardian 2016-06-28 Hannah J. Davies Louis Theroux 2.0: Reggie Yates in a cell at Bexar County Detention Center. He braves Russian far-right rallies and Texas prison cells for his job. Meet the man helping to reinvent the documentary for Generation Y While filming in…

  • Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 14:15 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 31 Oral Presentation Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United…

  • Chi-chi Nwanoku: A classical legacy and an African heritage Music Africa Magazine 2016-06-16 Ed Keazor A short biography of Chi-chi Nwanoku MBE, world-renowned classical baroque bassist and Professor of Music, covering her life, influences and deep connections to her African roots. Dr Michael Nwanoku adjusted himself in his seat as the next announcement was about…

  • Mary Seacole statue unveiled at London ceremony Nursing Standard 2016-07-01 Alistair Kleebauer More than 200 years after her birth and 12 years after a campaign started to recognise her achievements, a statue to nurse heroine Mary Seacole has been unveiled in London. To applause and loud cheers the permanent memorial to Mrs Seacole was unveiled…

  • Africa Writes Returns to London London Live 2016-07-01 Reya El-Salahi, Presenter The UK’s biggest festival celebrating contemporary African literature returns to the capital today. The fifth annual Africa Writes event features award-winning authors, book launches and panel discussions at The British Library. Sheila Ruiz from the Royal African Society says the event aims to make…

  • Poet Jackie Kay recites her first commission as Scots Makar at Opening Ceremony The Scottish Parliament 2016-07-02 The poet, Jackie Kay has recited her first commission as Scots Makar, “Threshold”, at today’s Opening Ceremony of the Scottish Parliament.

  • Mary Seacole statue: Why Florence Nightingale fans are angry the Crimean War nurse is being commemorated The Independent 2016-06-27 Kashmira Gander Some Florence Nightingale experts say Mary Seacole isn’t a nurse It should be a symbol of pride in a black British heroine. Instead, a statue of Mary Seacole, to be unveiled on 30 June,…

  • Inside Facebook’s Totally Adorable, Kind of Racist Mixed Race Baby Community Broadly 2016-06-21 Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Thousands of people have signed up to Instagram and Facebook communities to celebrate the beauty of multiracial children. But not everyone is convinced that they have the purest intentions at heart. In a world plagued by racism and prejudice, some…

  • A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings – Jamaica, England, America – and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.

  • Chan Bloodaxe Books 2016-06-23 72 pages 234 x 156 mm Paperback ISBN: 9781780372839 E-book ISBN: 9781780372846 Hannah Lowe Chan is a mercurial name, representing the travellers and shape-shifters of the poems in this collection. It is one of the many nicknames of Hannah Lowe’s Chinese-Jamaican father, borrowed from the Polish émigré card magician Chan Canasta.…