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To start off, please tell us a bit about you, and yourself! So, to begin with, I’m 27 and from Leeds! I studied Business Management at Newcastle University, which feels like a lifetime ago now. My first role out of university was on a graduate scheme in the midlands for a large company, but I […]

So, to start off, tell us a bit about yourself and your background? I studied Journalism as my undergraduate degree and whilst doing that I did different placements at magazines as well as some editorial and feature writer roles. However, during that course we were told over and over and over again that journalism is […]

We’ve taken this year’s Black History Month as an opportunity for education, reflection and the celebration of inspirational individuals, films, TV series, books and charities; and we sincerely hope you’ve enjoyed is as much as we have. As we come to the end of this year’s BHM, we wanted to take the time to reflect […]

Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, today we focus on British rapper, journalist, author, activist and poet, Akala. Kingslee James McLean Daley, aka Akala, was born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1983 to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father. He grew up with his mother “in the cliched, single-parent working-class family,” in Kentish Town, […]

Thankfully not “unsung”, but today’s hero is none other than stunningly influential poet, activist and positive human force, Maya Angelou. If you have a spare 2 minutes today, watch her delivering her inspirational poem, ‘Still I Rise’ (video below). Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, poet and award-winning author known for her acclaimed 1969 […]

Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, today we highlight the life and career of inspirational artist and director, Steve McQueen. Sir Steven Rodney McQueen, was born in Ealing in 1969, Ealing, to a Grenadian father and a Trinidadian mother, both of whom had immigrated to England. He studied art in London at the Chelsea […]