Mobo Awards 2026: Olivia Dean wins big, including best song, best album and female act - follow live Raye takes home the best video award, while Grahams wins the TV/film category. 18-year-old DC3 takes home two awards for newcomer and gospel.

CONGRATULATIONS OLIVIA DEAN!

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#MusicOfBlackOrigin

Comic Relief's Lenny Henry asks brutal 7-word Prince Andrew question Co-founder of Comic Relief, Lenny Henry is going back to his roots for his next venture - a UK stand-up tour called Still At Large, which begins in May - his first in 17 years

I remember the the withering look Lenny Henty gave the then PM Theresa May over that Grenfell and Windrush business.

She shrank to the size of an egg

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#LennyHenry #UK #Windrush #Grenfell #BlackBritain

Eni Aluko wins Joey Barton libel case over posts on X Barton is told to pay the former England footballer more than £300k over two posts he made in 2024.

JUSTICE

#BlackBritain

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Agyemang wins Young Sports Personality of the Year Michelle Agyemang has been named the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year

SO HAPPY FOR HER!

#BlackJoy
#BlackBritain
#BlackInBritain

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Stephen Lawrence murderer David Norris denied parole Claims by Norris, now 49, that he has ceased to be a racist rejected in Parole Board ruling

NOT NOW, NOT EVER

#JusticeForStephen
#BlackBritain

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Opening PowerPoint for webinar "Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850" by Helen Wilson. Image shows an 18th century London crowd scene with men fighting, pigs crossing a bridge, and a line of people presumably bringing bribes to a government office.

Still just resting & coughing. Am excited to watch this webinar tho: Helen Wilson, "Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850." Will use the info for the Jane Austen Seminar next semester. #JaneAusten #BlackBritain #Skystorians #18thC
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What the story of eight-year-old Lati-Yana Brown tells us about Britain’s callous disregard for Caribbean people | Nadine White From enslavement to Windrush to Hurricane Melissa, there is a clear pattern to the way Britain has extracted wealth and fractured families, says journalist and film-maker Nadine White

DESPICABLE

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#BlackBritain
#BlackInBritain

Ex-officer accused of racism takes legal action to avoid facing spycops inquiry Whistleblower testified that man known as HN86 gathered information to undermine Lawrence family campaign

Justice NOW for the Lawrence family

#BlackBritain
#BlackInBritain

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‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburn’s photographs capture the joys – and struggles – of the era for the city’s immigrant communities

Black Bradford #blackBritain entre boomboxes et Walkman

Joe Fraser & Courtney Tulloch talk career highlights and inspiring next generation Great Britain gymnasts Joe Fraser and Courtney Tulloch open up about their career highlights and what it is like breaking records as black British males in the sport.

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#BlackHistoryMonthUK

Robert Jenrick accused of fuelling ‘toxic nationalism’ with Birmingham claims Shadow justice secretary stands by comments made in March amid criticism including from a Tory colleague

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: TORIES BEING TORIES

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#BlackBritain
#BlackInBritain

#blacklivesmatteruk #Africa #BlackBritain

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“Inclusion isn’t some fashionable accessory you put on when it suits and take off when the political weather changes,” said the comedian Lenny Henry

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A panel from the book formerly known as ‘Skin Trouble’ by Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, (c) copyright Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, showing a lot of people dancing and having fun. Coming soon (2025) from 23rd Street Books / Macmillan.

Close-up: A panel from the book formerly known as ‘Skin Trouble’ by Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, (c) copyright Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, showing a lot of people dancing and having fun. Coming soon (2025) from 23rd Street Books / Macmillan.

Close up, pan right: A panel from the book formerly known as ‘Skin Trouble’ by Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, (c) copyright Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, showing a lot of people dancing and having fun. Coming soon (2025) from 23rd Street Books / Macmillan.

Close up, pan right and up: A panel from the book formerly known as ‘Skin Trouble’ by Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, (c) copyright Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson, showing a lot of people dancing and having fun. Coming soon (2025) from 23rd Street Books / Macmillan.

Syl Watson circa 1960, Birmingham UK, at his first successful “blues party” booking at Digbeth Civic Hall.

Title TBA coming next year from 23rd Street Books / Macmillan by me and

#comics #graphicnovels #bandedessinée #blackbritish #bandadesenhada #manga #booksy #art #bluesparty #blackbritain

Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024) - New Books Network

The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Jenny Shaw
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UK sibs Ron & Kevin Elliston grew up listening to American soul, funk & jazz artists. As teens they dug thru bins searching for underground USA club hits- in 1986, their 12” cut with #BlackBritain “Ain’t No Rockin’ In A Police State” became a beloved classic at #StarckClub

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This clipping from the Evening Sentinel shows the Brown Brothers. Roy who became a soccer player for Stoke City and his brother Doug who later became Lord Mayor of Stoke on Trent. #blackbritain

An Evening with Professor Hakim Adi: African and Caribbean People in Britain An Evening with Professor Hakim Adi: African and Caribbean People in Britain

I shall definitely be popping to Brighton to the Royal Pavilion for this! 14 May, evening.
#blackhistory #brighton #blackbritain #blackbritishhistory #decolonising #decolonial #sussex

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‘I haven’t seen any change’: black Labour voters in Liverpool and London six months on In Liverpool Riverside and Tottenham, two constituencies with black MPs and large black communities, Labour’s vote share dropped by more than 20 points at last year’s election. The Guardian spoke to…

“we need to feel that there’s a kind of human society around us that cares about each other … unfortunately, the government seems very distant from that.” #blackbritish #blackbritain

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#BlackLivesMatter #BlackBritain #racism #Africa #Jamaica #blackLove

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#africanlove
#blacklivesmatteruk
#blackhistory
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#Westindies
#Jamaica
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#blacklife
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#blackbritain
#africa
#nigeria

Jeune femme noire coiffée d’une afro sur fond orange. Vêtue d’une veste orange épaisse de lunettes de soleil contour rose sur les yeux et autre paire verte posée dessus mains en prière

Free all politicien Prisoners now. Slogan blanc sur fond rouge avec deux mains noires unies serrées comme dans un bras de fer

Poster corps noir d’homme de profil abec au 1er plan un poing serré. En bas est inscrit le nom du groupe Steel Pulse et en haut The liberators.

Affiche. Au centre un homme noir derrière lui un jeune enfant. Torses nus. Sur un fond bronzé. Autour une ligne de mots s’inscrit en rouge jaune et vert : Roots / Strictly

#DennisMorris #colorblack #blackbritain #Windrush #photography

The big picture: Dennis Morris’s 70s London The photographer was just 15 and already a professional when he shot this cool young boy in the East End

#NextStop #DennisMorris #BlackBritain #Photography #Paris

Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025 Inaugural exhibition at new museum space will chart more than a century of musical development, from calypso and reggae to grime and drill

Priorité absolue 2025. Le V&A de #Londres ouvre une annexe dans l’Est avec une #exposition inaugurale sur les #musiques de la #BlackBritain de le Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025

Rizla paper floral tribute @charlierootsfoto and @nationaltheatre #HowGreatThouArt photos on display in Dorfman Foyer & Wolfson Gall at: @nationaltheatre #Southbank #London 'til 26th May '18

#afrocaribbean #blackbritain #family #funerals #jamaican