I’m late… and heartbroken Everything you stood for 🙌🏽✊🏽🖤 Thank you for a lifelong lesson in integrity and the power to create @officialbenjaminzephaniah 🕊️
#international #justice #law #whatshappening #now
#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon A necessary film And conversation about the importance of embracing the most painful history And telling the truth I have a lot of love for the incredibly talented team who made it Including the many Osage participants, Chief Standing Bear, who I had the privilege of interviewing for @britishvogue And loved being reunited here with @leonardodicaprio @lilygladstone hosting an event for @appletv @bafta Wearing @me_andem Styled by @melwilkinson1
#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon A necessary film And conversation about the importance of embracing the most painful history And telling the truth I have a lot of love for the incredibly talented team who made it Including the many Osage participants, Chief Standing Bear, who I had the privilege of interviewing for @britishvogue And loved being reunited here with @leonardodicaprio @lilygladstone hosting an event for @appletv @bafta Wearing @me_andem Styled by @melwilkinson1
#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon A necessary film And conversation about the importance of embracing the most painful history And telling the truth I have a lot of love for the incredibly talented team who made it Including the many Osage participants, Chief Standing Bear, who I had the privilege of interviewing for @britishvogue And loved being reunited here with @leonardodicaprio @lilygladstone hosting an event for @appletv @bafta Wearing @me_andem Styled by @melwilkinson1
#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon A necessary film And conversation about the importance of embracing the most painful history And telling the truth I have a lot of love for the incredibly talented team who made it Including the many Osage participants, Chief Standing Bear, who I had the privilege of interviewing for @britishvogue And loved being reunited here with @leonardodicaprio @lilygladstone hosting an event for @appletv @bafta Wearing @me_andem Styled by @melwilkinson1
Thank you to everyone who recommended I read this! Keep your recommendations coming 🙌🏽 #Yellowface #Books #Bookstagram #Writers #CulturalAppropriation #wakeup #knowyourhistory
A love letter to my mother @maryowusuhirsch Conceived, styled and shot by @edelinelee I think this was such a beautiful idea, the #EdelineLee fall/winter collection inspired by the love between mothers and daughters We both have the privilege of each being both a mother and a daughter and I feel like there is a lot going on here 🤩 Very honoured to be included Beyond grateful for my inheritance ✨ #londonfashionweek #lfw #fw24 #motherhood #daughterhood Wearing: @edelinelee 📷 @mattheweades 👩🏽🦱 @danielalexanderhair 💄 @paula_hmu 💅🏾 @nailsbysammymac https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2024-ready-to-wear/edeline-lee/slideshow/collection
A love letter to my mother @maryowusuhirsch Conceived, styled and shot by @edelinelee I think this was such a beautiful idea, the #EdelineLee fall/winter collection inspired by the love between mothers and daughters We both have the privilege of each being both a mother and a daughter and I feel like there is a lot going on here 🤩 Very honoured to be included Beyond grateful for my inheritance ✨ #londonfashionweek #lfw #fw24 #motherhood #daughterhood Wearing: @edelinelee 📷 @mattheweades 👩🏽🦱 @danielalexanderhair 💄 @paula_hmu 💅🏾 @nailsbysammymac https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2024-ready-to-wear/edeline-lee/slideshow/collection
Babel, by R. F. Kuang Radical, intellectual, imaginative, historically accurate and fantasy fictitious – all things I love This woman is CLEVERRRR!!! Also, why did this book not show up on any of my algorithms? One day I will tell you all the extremely random way I came across it Is it because the machines think I’m only interested in Africa and not China? Do they assume someone who likes literary fiction can’t do fantasy? IDK but whatever the reason they are wrong #Babel #Empire #decolonise #fantasy #magic #books #bookstagram #knowyourhistory
This recording I did with Benjamin Zephaniah has stayed with me in so many ways – a candid interview about the ways in which his parents had internalised colonialism and how that in turn deeply affected his life He was so honest, generous and gifted at making complex politics personal and impossible to ignore If you have an @audible_uk subscription, check out the rest of this interview, Ep 5 of We Need to Talk About The British Empire it’s free to listen. Link into bio Rest in power #BenjaminZephaniah 🙏🏽✨
Black Cake by @charmspen1 Beautiful book by a beautiful writer ✍🏽 🎂🏊🏾♀️📖 Check out the novel first if you can before the @disney series drops because it’s delicious to read This book is for anyone who enjoys a good epic, who is interested in the Caribbean, Windrush, migrating to America, running away from your past, themes of family and secrets But it’s also extra especially for anyone who knows what it is to speak or be spoken to in the love language of cake ☺️ #books #bookstagram #tv #adaptation #caribbeanfood #caribbeanstories #diaspora #swimming #life
@therealmargaretatwood I will never forget the experience of first picking up the Handmaids Tale from my mother’s bookshelf in the early 1990’s. One of the books that changed my sense of the world and revealed the power of fiction to understand reality I haven’t read ALL the 50 books and essays she has written since then, but I have read, and loved, many of them. Today we were talking about her latest collection of essays, Burning Questions. She is a G and she moves like one! 🔥😮🙌🏽 A conversation I will always remember #legends #author #greats #books #dystopia #essays #conversation #margaretatwood Photo credits @elifoneill @desigirlwrites_ @courtenaynoonan @chezspecter @anisahbellaa @waterstones @penguinukbooks Wearing @zimmermann Styled by @melwilkinson1
2024 is happening May the inhumane, psychopathic, genocidal and bloodthirsty among our political and thought leaders please retire early Just read Prophet Song, by @paullynchauthor a powerful dystopian fictional totalitarian coup for you. It is quietly stunning, recommend Also watched Leave The World Behind Also thinking about a bumper election year on the African continent Wonder why everything is thinking about coups atm 🤔 Happy reading / watching #books #bookstagram #ProphetSong
Blown away by the love our new podcast Legacy is getting! Loved this conversation with my brilliant co-host @peterfrankopan @camanpour @cnn Check out our #Legacy Wherever you listen to your podcasts @wonderymedia @amazonmusic @goalhangerfilms #podcast #legacy #knowyourhistory Also got a chance to talk about my book Decolonising My Body which is super relevant because these are the things I actually think about, podcast or not 🤷🏽♀️ Wearing @lisoulondon one of my faves 💋
Magical weekend at @hayfestival I talked to @olusoga about #DecolonisingMyBody And the phenomenal @laura_bates__ and @wgompertz about the Big Issues Facing Society – shout out to everyone who showed up early to pack out our talk on the dire state of this country. But it was ultimately hopeful because there were many solutions, we need better leaders to implement them #books #bookfestival #wales #realtalk #bookstagram #knowyourhistory Wearing orange dress @nobodyschild Best boots ever @penelopechilvers Knitted Cardigan @motherdenim Coat @sikadesigns Styled by @melwilkinson1 To everyone who has gifted me warm clothes I thank you and maybe owe you my life 🙈🥶
Magical weekend at @hayfestival I talked to @olusoga about #DecolonisingMyBody And the phenomenal @laura_bates__ and @wgompertz about the Big Issues Facing Society – shout out to everyone who showed up early to pack out our talk on the dire state of this country. But it was ultimately hopeful because there were many solutions, we need better leaders to implement them #books #bookfestival #wales #realtalk #bookstagram #knowyourhistory Wearing orange dress @nobodyschild Best boots ever @penelopechilvers Knitted Cardigan @motherdenim Coat @sikadesigns Styled by @melwilkinson1 To everyone who has gifted me warm clothes I thank you and maybe owe you my life 🙈🥶
Benjamin Zephaniah never let us forget the truth about British institutions… rotten and racist to the core But he still showed us you can navigate them with your own truth and thrive in your art without compromising 🙌🏽 #benjaminzephaniah #MalcolmX #restinpower #protest #blackbritish #legend #poet #griot #podcast
Judging the Write to End Violence Against Women Awards A sobering experience because of the reality that so many women and girls face But also inspired by the work of @evawuk and all the journalists who did such important reporting Special shout out to all the shortlisted journalists in the featured category I judged @sophiecfgallagher @theipaper @catreenaah @jennifersavin_ @cosmopolitanuk @leahmanon @ The Voice newspaper hannah Uguru @refinery29 @harri.grace @cosmopolitanuk 🙌🏽✍🏽🎤 #journalism #reporting #awards #endviolenceagainstwomen #tellthetruth
So the other day I spent a few hours with @henrylouisgates Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr, aka Skip We talked about his new book The Black Box And also blackness, capitalism, spirituality, his enduring friendship with Wole Soyinka, how Britain made his TV career, and what it was like being arrested trying to get into his own damn house, then talking it out at the Beer Summit with Obama. And he sung to me. From a white gospel group The Carter Family, of course. Ever the mischievous professor For more and to find out what he thinks every African American – and every black diasporan – should do, read the full story https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/10/henry-louis-gates-jr-black-box-writing-race-arrested-beers-with-obama Link in bio #HenryLouisGates #Books #bookstagram #Harvard #professor #AfricanAmerican #studies #knowyourhistory #findingyourroots #theblackbox
Sometimes you need to get away from it all 🌳🔥🌧️ Thank you for the beautiful silence @unyoked.co #wales #countryside #cabin #retreat #unyoked #akash #gifted
That Gorbachev changed the course of global history is just about the only thing people agree on when it comes to his legacy Supremacy of global capitalism? American world dominance? Chernobyl? Current state of Russia and Ukraine? If you’re interested in any of these themes this season is for you. If not because of me then DEFINITELY because of @peterfrankopan 😂🤓 New episodes available now! #Legacy #Podcast #listennow #coldwar #USSR #knowyourhistory Link in bio or listen wherever you get your podcasts
The legacy of… Picasso! Episode 2 drops today Listen to this and all me and @peterfrankopan other episodes so far @wonderymedia @amazonmusicuk Or wherever you get your podcasts #picasso #art #ai #legacy #podcasts #knowyourhistory
