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No one tells you that being in a band is just typing the words “link in bio” till you die

Join us tomorrow at the Ridley Road Market Bar at 5 p.m.! “No proper warning. No time to liquidate our stock. The destruction of our livelihoods. Many of us won’t be able to start again or find another place to trade." hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/03/15/rid…

Watch RR Shopping Village traders speak out against their evictions! Send our template letter: tinyurl.com/55j2tnbt. This is a key moment for the future of Ridley Road. Be involved. youtube.com/watch?v=iRoYLV…

Very proud to announce that our film "Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story" won the best documentary film award in the LP category @seeyousoundfestival in Turin, Italy. Jane Mingay and I had a wonderful time at the screening & Q & A & were so well looked after by the organizers.

"Britain has decided that the girl who fought the Taliban’s agenda, who learned English in secret, who turned down a forced marriage, who won her place, is an asylum risk. Her name is Bahar. She is 18 years old. She did everything we asked of her." independent.co.uk/news/people/ne…

We are now circulating an open letter to the UK Government demanding an immediate rollback of discriminatory visa policies affecting Sudanese students. We invite academics, civil society actors, professionals, and concerned citizens to support this effort by signing the letter

The UK Artist Touring fund will be open for applications next week on 11th March 2026. The full eligibility criteria and application guide are now available on our website, so you can start preparing your application. For more information: thefac.org/ukatfund

BREAKING: The Sickle Cell Emergency Care Day Unit at The Royal London Hospital’s in will now reopen. Campaigners had fought for the unit not to close & according to the Sickle Cell Society, after discussions, the vital facility will reopen. 🙌🏾🙌🏾open.substack.com/pub/melissasig…

As of now, no cladding companies have been criminally prosecuted in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire, despite ongoing investigations. It’s been 9 years since the disaster.

Pls take two minutes to listen to her entire response not just the one sentence highlighted in the caption. She lays it out PERFECTLY. "I'll first say a big shout out to Mike and Delroy, like let's continue to honor them for how they handled that in real time, the grace and the dignity that they exercised, and the whole home team, everybody that was out there, like really carried themselves well. I think the events this weekend exposed a couple things - Institutionally, we still don't understand what inclusion means." "Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don't provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that's not inclusivity. That's exploitation." "That man's disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses. That's the BAFTA's fault. And then the BBC, to air what they aired is careless." "And not like some haphazard accident, no, like a real lack of care was exercised for those two Black men. And we know the BBC knows how to take care of what they care about, right, because they censored a bunch of other... they went so far as to make sure certain things weren't topics of conversation." "They censored Akinola's speech, the director of My Father's Shadow, which is an amazing film, by the way. So you censored one Black man, you failed to protect two others, and our production designer, Hannah, you do not care for our dignity, our humanity." "You want to celebrate our art, but you won't protect, and that's why we celebrate sinners. That's why we celebrate Ryan. That's why we show up to the NAACP, because those are spaces where we felt safe, where we feel safe." - Jayme Lawson

Maxine Peake, Ncuti Gatwa, Thandiwe Newton and Danny Sapani have been cast in Michaela Coel’s ‘FIRST DAY ON EARTH.’ Coel will write, star and serve as an executive producer on the series. British-Ghanaian novelist Henri (Coel) is on the run – from herself, her life, her partner, and that weird guy at her book talk. When she ends up in Ghana, her ancestral homeland, she finds herself submerged in an altogether different world. Amidst new friends, fresh joy, and many different and nuanced relationships, Henri also finds secrets, lies, difficulty and denial - leading her to question everything about herself, her heritage and her family.

France and Netherlands was brilliant! Some gorgeous new supports acts join our tour linktr.ee/whitelandsband…

They fucking killed this little girl. They denied medical care to her and killed her. Abolish ICE and lock every guard in that concentration camp up in a cell UNDER the fucking prison.

You can fool some people sometimes But you can't fool all the people all the time So now we see the light (what you gonna do?) We going to stand up for our right (yeah, yeah, yeah) Get up, stand up (in the morning, don't give it up) Stand up for your right (stand up right now) Get up, stand up Don't give up the fight (don't give it up, don't give it up) Get up, stand up (get up, stand up) Stand up for your right (get up, stand up) Get up, stand up Don't give up the fight (get up, stand up) #getupstandup #bobmarley #tracychapman #humanrightsnow

✨OUR CROWDFUNDER IS LIVE! ✨ We’re crowdfunding to help sustain our worker-owned cooperative bookshop and community space that opened in October. Early support & shares mean everything: tinyurl.com/2d8f54hj

Sign this petition to prevent the closure of the sickle cell day unit at Royal London Hospital. The fact that individuals with sickle cell constantly have to fight to be heard and taken seriously is heartbreaking. c.org/LGJrfMPjCz

Solange in new Love Magazine outtakes

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wishing everyone a blessed 2026. may we witness the liberation of palestine, sudan, congo, and papua in this lifetime.

🚨URGENT: Hunger strikers at grave risk of death - Email the MoJ now! Use our e-action to David Lammy to demand he take urgent action to uphold the human rights of these prisoners and meet their demands for a fair trial and reasonable bail conditions.  palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/LammyHungerStr…