November is a month when there is heightened focus on men’s health. (1) This is an issue that is particularly acute in the Afrikan community and arguably most severely in the area of mental health. (2) Afrikan people in the UK are nearly five times more likely to be sectioned…

On November 2024 Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch (née Adegoke) made history by becoming the first Afrikan (Black) person the lead a major political party in the UK voted for by party members. She now sits as the Leader of the Opposition for the Conservative and Unionist Party. It caps a meteoric…

Looking at the UK media one might be forgiven for thinking in the recent trial involving police officer Martyn Blake it was twenty-four year-old expectant father and aspiring architect Chris Kaba that was on trial, such has been the “merciless autopsy” on his life since the 21st October verdict in…

Conservative Party leadership candidate and former Justice Minister Robert Jenrick called the Martyn Blake, the police killer of unarmed Chris Kaba a “Hero,” while the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the bringing the prosecution in the first place was “crushing the spirit of good officers” and was making…

As part of “Reclaiming Narratives” this Black History Month, the United Families & Friends Campaign, the coalition seeking justice for loved ones lost at the hands of the state, holds its annual rally on Imani-Day (Sat) October 26th, meeting at 12 noon on Trafalgar Square: “Every year the bereaved families,…