Archive for August, 2007
We Need A British Jesse Jackson
From today, political website www.tmponline.org will feature my writings in a fortnightly column.
Other contributors to this site have been MP’s such as David Lammy and Keith Vaz so I’m in good company!
This is a snippet of my first article entitled “We Need A British Jesse Jackson”:
Jesse Jackson has recently been in the UK talking [...]
America, America…
I’m going to be living in one of my favourite cities in the world, New York, for the next few months…It’s fascinating to be here. I find that America is full of paradox, particularly in regards to race.
On one hand, there is a very high rate of disenfranchisement evidenced for example by a disproportionately large [...]
New Nation Black Power List 2007
The New Nation newspaper has compiled their 2007 Power List of the 50 most powerful black men and women in the UK.
I have to admit I had not heard of some of the people on this list, but it’s great to be introduced to new names and see their achievements.
In the UK we can be [...]
Martin Luther Had A Dream…
Last night I went to the screening of a soon-to-be released documentary called Meeting David Wilson. It’s the baby of a friend of mine, called David Wilson.
To give you some background to the film, it’s based on my African-American friend Dave Wilson tracing back his family history and finding out that the descendants of the [...]
Being Positive…
I read the government’s recent report with interest. It is part of their project to “raise the aspirations, attainment and achievement of Black boys and young Black men, enabling them to reach their potential”.
I found it ironic that one of the key suggestions was that black boys need better role models and media representation, yet [...]
Being Black…
Two hot topics in the media at the moment are so-called black-on-black crime, and black underachievement in schools.
I ask why the reference to ‘black-on-black’? Isn’t crime just crime? Why is the race of the victims or the perpetrators significant? Similarly if kids are underachieving in school, why the focus on their skin colour in the discussion?
I [...]
Startups must go with the flow…
I’ve recently started a business which provides remote secretarial/admin assistance to small businesses. At least that was the inital idea. On paper, it all works exactly the way I want it to. In practise, however, I’ve discovered - amongst other things - that many people are resistant to the idea of passing information to people [...]
Climate Change, Cultural Change
You can’t help hearing about climate change these days… It’s everywhere. Live Earth, documentaries, politics. In fashion speech, climate change is the new black.
But what to do about it? We’ve been told we can become more environmentally friendly by making changes to our lifestyle by recycling, walking instead of taking the car, and holidaying locally [...]