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Renni Eddo-Lodge Becomes First Black British Author To Top UK Book Charts News

Renni Eddo-Lodge Becomes First Black British Author To Top UK Book Charts

Renni Eddo-Lodge has become the first black British author to top the UK book charts with her award-winning, non-fiction book, Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race. In the week to June 13, Eddo-Lodge...

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Nicki Knightz Shares 3-Track EP 'For The Uninformed' News

Nicki Knightz Shares 3-Track EP 'For The Uninformed'

Nicki Knightz has gifted us with her new, 3-track EP dubbed For The Uninformed. Containing 3 tracks, including the recently released “The Blacker The Berry”, the EP is a thoughtful one which explores themes such...

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Akon Announces $6 Billion Construction Contract For Akon City News

Akon Announces $6 Billion Construction Contract For Akon City

Akon has now announced that he was secured a $6 billion construction contract to begin building a futuristic city in Senegal. The mega Senegalese-American star confirmed the news on Instagram, writing “KE International...

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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Use Of Police Chokeholds In U.S. News

Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Use Of Police Chokeholds In U.S.

Donald Trump has signed a new executive order restricting the use of police chokeholds. The U.S president spoke at the White House today (June 16), saying that chokeholds will be “banned”, with the exception being “if a...

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Life-Saving Drug For Severely Ill Coronavirus Patients Approved For Immediate Use By NHS News

Life-Saving Drug For Severely Ill Coronavirus Patients Approved For Immediate Use By NHS

The UK government has approved the use of a ground-breaking drug that has been shown to minimise the risk of death by up to one third in patients with serious respiratory complications suffering from coronavirus. From today &...

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UK Government Makes U-Turn On Food Voucher Scheme Following Marcus Rashford's Campaign News

UK Government Makes U-Turn On Food Voucher Scheme Following Marcus Rashford's Campaign

Following an appeal from Marcus Rashford, the government has reversed its decision to end free school meal vouchers over summer. A spokesperson for Boris Johnson has said today (June 16) the prime minister “understands...

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Cineworld Set To Re-Open Cinemas Across England On July 10 News

Cineworld Set To Re-Open Cinemas Across England On July 10

After announcing plans to re-open cinemas in July last month, Cineworld has now unveiled further plans to open its doors on July 10. The company took to Twitter to share the news, writing: “If you are bored of “ho...

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Instagram To Re-Assess Policies & Algorithms To Stop Mistreatment Of Black Users News

Instagram To Re-Assess Policies & Algorithms To Stop Mistreatment Of Black Users

Instagram has now announced plans to improve its “policies, tools, and processes” to support its black users. The new plans were announced by the app’s CEO – Adam Mosseri – in a blog post. When sha...

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Unknown T Teases Upcoming Mixtape News

Unknown T Teases Upcoming Mixtape

East London’s Unknown T has excited fans by hinting at his forthcoming mixtape. The rapper took to Twitter to reveal that the project is due for release very soon, writing: “My mixtape dropping next month.. I’m...

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Chanté Joseph & Channel 4 Team Up To Launch New Series 'How Not To Be Racist' News

Chanté Joseph & Channel 4 Team Up To Launch New Series 'How Not To Be Racist'

Channel 4 has collaborated with journalist Chanté Joseph to deliver a new online series titled How Not To Be Racist. The series is showing on Channel 4’s YouTube and focuses on racism and the micro-aggressions often...

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Stormzy, Dave & Young T & Bugsey Among 2020 BET Award Nominees News

Stormzy, Dave & Young T & Bugsey Among 2020 BET Award Nominees

The BET Awards have revealed the nominees for their 2020 edition and among the nominees are some of the UK’s biggest names. Both Stormzy and Dave have been making waves worldwide in recent years and they are up against...

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Kanye West Reportedly Starting Yeezy Cosmetic Line With Fake Eyelashes, Toothpaste & More News

Kanye West Reportedly Starting Yeezy Cosmetic Line With Fake Eyelashes, Toothpaste & More

Kanye West has dominated the music and fashion worlds over the years and now it looks like he’s ready to tap into the cosmetic industry. According to TMZ, West’s Yeezy company has filed for a trademark for beauty,...

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Marcus Rashford Writes Emotional Letter To MPs Calling For U-Turn On Food Voucher Scheme News

Marcus Rashford Writes Emotional Letter To MPs Calling For U-Turn On Food Voucher Scheme

Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford has written an emotional letter to MPs, urging them to reverse the government’s decision to not provide free school meals vouchers during summer. Rashford shared his open letter...

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Henrie Kwushue & Harry Pinero Announced As New Hosts Of Spotify's 'Who We Be Talks' News

Henrie Kwushue & Harry Pinero Announced As New Hosts Of Spotify's 'Who We Be Talks'

It has now been announced that Henrie Kwushue and Harry Pinero are the new hosts of Spotify’s much-loved Who We Be Talks podcast. The podcast – which is a partner to Spotify’s hip-hop, afrobeats, dancehall...

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Listen To Piers James' Breezy New Drop News

Listen To Piers James' Breezy New Drop "Can't Be My Girl"

Piers James has gifted us with the audio for his brand-new single entitled “Can’t Be My Girl”. Serving as the follow-up to his track “Garden Of Eden”, the latest track from the Ipswich-born artis...

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