Black British Studies

Did you know? 📸

Neil Kenlock arrived in Britain from Jamaica at just 13 years old — and went on to become one of the most important visual chroniclers of Black British life.

As a young adult he was a photographer for the West Indian World, edited by the legendary Claudia Jones — who founded Notting Hill Carnival.

In 1979 he co-founded ROOT magazine — the first glossy lifestyle publication aimed at Black British readers.

Then in 1990 he helped launch the legendary radio station Choice FM - the UK's first 24-hour licensed Black music station.

Now, more than 50 years on, his daughter Emelia is making sure those images — and the stories they carry — are never lost.

➡️ Read more about him and other trailblazers in the Windrush issue of the Voice Newspaper. 📰

🔗Link in bio.

Are white British people really disadvantaged in the UK as people like Badenoch claim?

What does the data say? ⬇️

According to the Home Office data policing in the UK continues to show racial disparities that disproportionately affect Black people.

* In 2025, Black men were almost 4 times more likely to be stopped and searched than White men, although this was an improvement from 10 times more likely eight years earlier.

* Between July 2023 and June 2024, Black children were almost 8 times more likely to be strip-searched than White children. (Many are also subjected to intimate body searches as in the case of Child Q)

* A 2023 analysis by the charity Inquest found that Black people were 7 times more likely to die following police restraint than White people.

Multiple reports over the past 45 years, including a 2025 report by Dr. Shireen Daniels, have concluded that there is structural and systemic racism within the police.

Government statistics show higher poverty rates among ethnic minorities:
* 39% of Black British people live in poverty.
* 38% of Asian British people live in poverty.
* Compared with 18% of the White population.

In healthcare:
* Black women are more than twice as likely to die from childbirth-related complications as White women.
* Research from 2023 found that people with learning disabilities from ethnic minority backgrounds have a life expectancy of 34 years, compared with 62 years for White people.

Claims of an unprecedented crime wave are contradicted by official statistics showing that crime has generally been declining.

* According to the Office for National Statistics:
* Violent crime in 2024 was 83% lower than in 1995.
* The murder rate has halved since its peak in 2003.

So what we really have to ask is who has the most to gain by promoting these false narratives and who is bankrolling it?

https://youtu.be/tvt8GI0dQmY?si=R-wqXNj3QDyB7UxR

How to Distract a Nation: The "Two-Tier Policing" Smoke Screen Who benefits from the chaos? The hidden agenda behind the headlines...

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Even on the surface level, Zia Yusuf’s comments fall to pieces.

Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at University College London and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

She has devoted her career to harnessing the potential of nanoparticles – which are less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair - to take medicines to hard-to-reach areas of the body such as the back of the eye and the brain. Using nanoparticles in this way is said to increase the efficacy of medicines and reduce side effects.

Ijeoma was born in London where her parents had settled from Nigeria. At 13 she moved with her family to Nigeria where she developed an enduring love of chemistry.

https://youtu.be/Tvumtq-5oT0?is=yWoCy-Pp8yzvEZsn

In 2010 she co-founded a pharmaceutical company Nanomerics with her husband. The company is currently developing eyedrops to treat blindness and a nasal spray to target pain which she hopes will go some way to addressing the opioid crisis.

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Ireland Oldest independent human rights body has said the video footage of Yves Sakila being restrained is shows “disproportionate and excessive use of force.”

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties say they are shocked by and deeply concerned about the death of Mr Sakila on Friday May 15 and the events surrounding it.

ICCL Executive Director Joe O’Brien, said:

“The death of Mr Yves Sakila last week is deeply distressing and has profoundly impacted the Congolese, African and broader Black and minority communities.

There is no getting away from the similarities between this incident and others we have seen here and abroad in recent years.

“What we need to see now is swift, thorough and transparent investigations by An Garda Síochána and Fiosrú to establish what happened, ensure justice is done for Mr Sakila and maintain the confidence of ethnic minority communities.

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https://youtu.be/gKboWQHtgr0?si=9P1VEsy8IyJE5x9I

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