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Mary Fashanu is known as the Business GPS. She recently co-founded the association of Black Coaches, a non-profit membership organisation promoting best practice and maintaining industry standards for black professional coaches worldwide. Mary helps fellow entrepreneurs grow their business, make an impact, increase their revenue and land clients consistently. In this interview she discusses how …

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The London Southbank’s Centre has extended a second season of its successful multi arts online programme ‘Inside Out’. Audiences will not be disappointed with a top line up of international artists and diverse events. From music, to literature, to the spoken word, the second season, launched 24 January until 6 May 2021, promises to entertain …

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Review by Mbeke Waseme Africa Utopia – the 52 countries in one of the most disparate and diverse continents in a perfect state.  That is what we want! The 2019 African Utopia took place at London Southbank in collaboration with Indaba X. It was opened by Kojo Annan, the son of the former UN Secretary …

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You could feel the buzz and excitement as guests and nominees arrived on the red carpet at the Screen Nation Awards 2019 at the Mayfair Hotel in London. They came in beautiful attire, ranging from African to arts inspired outfits. A colourful array of clothes that certainly got the photographers snapping! The age ranges of …

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Review by Mercy Francis The sound from the Chineke Junior Orchestra struck some eclectic cords at the Southbank Centre on April 22nd 2019. The pieces were moving and a great tribute to the young Steven Lawrence who had everything to live for. Some of the young musicians were of the same age as Steven Lawrence when …

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When Angie Thomas published her debut novel, ‘The Hate You Give’ it literally rocked the literature world. Inspired by her experience of viewing a real live shoot out in her home town of Jackson, Mississippi when she was just six and the divisions created by the gun violence and police brutality aimed at African Americans …

Making Young Voices Matter – Angie Thomas In Conversation at the Southbank Centre, London Read More »

  Gender still matters: women consider gender pay equality to be a more important issue than men do Whatever way you measure it – by hour, job or worker or by total pay for all women – women earn less than men. In fact, despite the Equal Pay Act in 1970, women still earn just 81p …

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(This is the full version of a personal account of being a participant of an online research community, that appeared on Research Live on 11th December 2018. What follows is Shae Eccleston’s account of her incredible experience) Shae Eccleston: In 2014, I took part in an online community of cancer patients. The cancer patients in …

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