Media Diversified
Foregrounding voices of colour
Media Diversified has opened up a space where people of colour can express their experiences and perspectives without fear or favour from the Eurocentric media establishment.
A group of African and African Caribbean writers, poets and activists are putting together a new meet-up for people of African descent to discuss, debate and rethink their lived experience as a Black person in London today.
The project is called ALL BLACK EVERYTHING. On Friday 19th June, it will begin a weekly series of articles on MD starting the discussion online in preparation for the live event on Saturday 1st August, 2pm – 6pm at Goldsmiths’ College Students’ Union, in New Cross, South London.
We are calling for volunteers to help organise this event, coordinate speakers, proofread articles and more.
If you are interested e-mail mediadiversityuk@gmail.com with the subject ALL BLACK EVERYTHING
The ALL BLACK EVERYTHING team
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The elections are over, the results are in and our collective African humanity isn’t any closer to being recognised or liberated.
In a context where Black youth are facing 50% unemployment, African migrants drowning in the sea, historically Black areas like Hackney, Brixton and Tottenham being gentrified before our eyes, Black struggle is not as prominent as it once was in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. There have been a few positive developments but an internal discussion is needed to regroup our ideas, identities and struggles into something more connected and shared.
Black Intersectional Feminist resistance & struggle
Examining Anti-Blackness and Structural violence
Black versus “African” and White Supremacy
The “migration debate”, decoloniality and the African diaspora
#BlackLivesMatter and Black community organising in Britain
30 years ago today, 28th September 1985, Metropolitan Police officers in Brixton burst into the home of Dorothy Groce, known to her friends as Cherry, and wrongfully shot her while she was in her bed in front of her young children and family. Soon after the shooting, members of the local community came out to find… Read More
By @MarvinsCorridor Content Note: references to domestic violence and violence against women Rock music is one of America’s most influential cultural exports, associated closely with white bands and white artists, we’re seldom informed of rock music’s true origins. Whilst the explosion of rock music took place in the 1950s and 1960s, the creation of rock… Read More
by Shane Thomas Content Note: This review and the embedded links contain spoilers, and are NSFW. Given its punchy title, one may expect Dear White People to be a frenzy of righteous anger, and coruscating dissent. But while the film is a tractate on contemporary American racism, it’s also a coming of age tale. The… Read More
By Kojo Koram That Justice is a blind goddess, Is a thing to which we black are wise, Her bandage hides two festering sores, That once perhaps were eyes. Langston Hughes,Justice (1923) Last week, at the annual convention of the NAACP, President Obama recognised that the US criminal justice system is in critical need of reform.… Read More
Towards a structural view of cultural appropriation By Adam Elliott-Cooper / @adamec87 I’m the real ambassador! It is evident I was sent by government to take your place, All I do is play the blues and meet the people face to face; I’ll explain and make it plain I represent the human race, And don’t… Read More
All Black Spoken Word is a weekly feature curated by Siana Bangura on the Writers of Colour Tumblr blog. This is about celebrating the rich spoken word scene and the important contributions of Black poets and writers to the art. All Black Spoken Word is part of Media Diversified’s ongoing All Black Everything project. We… Read More
By @graciemaybe Britain is under siege, the headlines tell us: foreigners are sneaking into Britain from “the Jungle” in Calais, taking British jobs; stretching Britain’s public services to breaking point; endangering Britain’s children with their excessive criminality. Time and again Parliament has tried its hand at placating the press and the public, and the policies… Read More
By @Femininja4q White supremacy is one hell of a drug. But couple white supremacy and patriarchy and you enter the world of a black woman. The effects of structural racism are covered extensively; from institutions who kill black people that they’re meant to protect and serve to black people being rejected from work. Misogyny, a… Read More
By @KojoTheLibSoc Dylann Roof’s bloody slaughter of nine Black church attendees should not be called a “hate crime”. To sit in a church for an hour before opening fire on its constituents because they simply exist is a calculated act of awesome terror. But this was not any church; it took place in Emanuel African… Read More
