Share I found the whole Shirley Sherrod case to be pretty disgraceful to be honest. I’ve written a number of pieces on it for different publications, as well as appearing on the BBC talking about the nature of the media today and how easy it is to score cheap political points by manipulating the media… [...]
Share The Hunger Project is an organization which empowers people to end their own hunger and poverty. Yes, you heard that right – they work with people to end their own hunger and poverty. I met with them last week, and am massively inspired by what they do and their commitment to people and the [...]
Share Yesterday, while traveling on a bus, I found myself being the mediator of a heated argument that almost turned into a fight. The young black lady sitting next to me had been listening to music on her headphones, but it was so loud that she may as well have been playing it out loud. [...]
Share For those of you in Manhattan, The NY African Film Festival is back for its 17th year. From April 14, it will be at Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies and finishes at the end of May. It will no doubt be worth checking out as well as a great opportunity to see what [...]
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Share Recently I have begun advocating for a new approach to media output. I would like to see a media that is focussed on looking at solutions, rather than just regurgitating scary and titillating images and statistics (or sometimes speculation, rumours and misinformation) which don’t help the people/situation being discussed and leave those watching, reading [...]
Share Happy Martin Luther King day! I wrote a piece for The Guardian – “King dream meets Obama’s reality” - on Obama’s first year in office and what it means for Martin Luther King’s vision for America. The crux of the piece is that one person cannot singlehandedly change everything, particularly in the space of one [...]
