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A podcast exploring how food connects us to our deepest memories. Series 1 out now! Audio UK 2023 award winner!

London, England
Joined January 2022
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I keep thinking about whether Black excellence is actually safe in a society that has built so much institutional protection around white mediocrity. Because Black excellence creates visibility, and visibility without equal protection can become surveillance.
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here are my thoughts on Jason Arday, who just committed suicide after being incessantly hounded by the entire UK and US media class from across the ideological spectrum, The Guardian to The Telegraph and New York Times. After it was revealed that he committed plagiarism in his PhD thesis and academic work, he resigned, but it was not enough. They kept picking at him every day, over and over. They wanted to turn him into a symbol for the lack of ability of every non-white scholar. They wanted to make him the poster-boy for "woke 1", to use AOCIA's phrasing, and all its evils and depravities, so they couldn't let it go even after he had resigned and it was already over. So I want to compare and contrast Arday with another person: Bill Ackman's wife Neri Oxman, who is an Israeli Zionist Jew. She completed her PhD at MIT in 2010, and in the same year joined MIT's media lab as part of the faculty. There she was allowed to found a "research group" that was heavily funded, including by Jeffrey Epstein. Her PhD was found to be filled with plagiarism: businessinsider.com/neri-oxm… businessinsider.com/bill-ack… businessinsider.com/neri-oxm… As you can see there, her plagiarism was massive, and included literally copy-pasting from Wikipedia and plagiarizing from another already caught plagiarist: retractionwatch.com/2024/01/…. This is worse than anything Arday was accuse of by a million miles. She didn't even copy-paste from other academic sources, she copy-pasted FROM FUCKING WIKIPEDIA. This was a marginal item for a few days, her husband Bill Ackman, a fanatical genocidal Zionist, defended her plagiarism by saying that copy-pasting from Wikipedia and all the rest is actually completely normal and fine, and he pressured Business Insider's owners to review and retract the reporting (washingtonpost.com/style/med…), and then everyone forgot about it and she still has her PhD in good standing. If she hadn't already left her MIT position in 2021, she would still have it today, and everyone knows it because no one dares touch a Zionist Israeli Jew who can hysterically cry ANTISEMITISM ANTISEMITISM and get Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, everyone at the NYT, BBC, CNN, Guardian alongside the vast Israel lobby and regime to rise to their defense. No one attempted to make her into the symbol for Zionist Jewish supremacists and their deception and lies and how they worm themselves into elite academia and then use their Zionist Jewish supremacist husbands and the entire Israel lobby to defend them when they get caught. Jason Arday had no one. A few marginal voices attempted to call of the dogs, but they were themselves swamped with death threats and insanity. He was systematically murdered by the media and political class, while countless Neri Oxman's slither around at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford without a worry in the world because they know exactly where power really, actually lies.
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Don't stop talking about Sudan Don't stop talking about Sudan Don't stop talking about Sudan Don't stop talking about Sudan
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A former paint maker who lost his 12-year career due to the Windrush scandal & lost his home as a result says after half a decade of fighting for compensation he has been awarded £1,147 for loss of employment by the Home Office scheme.
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An award-winning Black bookshop is facing a “critical moment” to sell 1,000 books before the end of April so that Black authors ‘don’t lose a platform for their books.’ Afrori Books in Brighton has only four days left to reach its goal. thecommunityreporter.co.uk/p…
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Those brownstones in New York are the property of Black people and our history. People’s grandparents and great grandparents came from Georgia and the Carolinas, worked as porters, waitresses, and whatever else they could get, eventually got out from under white man’s debt slavery and secured a home for successive generations of their family, ensuring that none of their line would ever be homeless. These houses are now worth millions of dollars, and they are being stolen by colonizers.
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Council Member Chi Ossé was just arrested while defending his constituent, Carmella Charrington, from eviction. This is the result of deed theft and the ongoing displacement of Black homeowners in Bed-Stuy. Our office is closely monitoring this situation and will provide updates as this develops.
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Several Black women, mainly Africans, have been found dead in bodies of water in the UK 🇬🇧 over the past few weeks, months, and years, and it’s not making the news.
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this is real Britain actually ❤️
Eid Surprise From Our Neighbours ❤️ Today, She Gave Eidi💷 To my Nephew&Nieces 😍
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Africans should speak up against what's happening in Cuba 🇨🇺. Cuba provided significant military, logistical, and political support to African nations during the apartheid era and independence struggles. Don’t forget Cuba’s struggle against Western imperialism is the same struggle we are facing and it’s connected.
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🇨🇳 🇨🇺 The average Cuban consumes 60kg of rice every year. China just donated enough rice in ONE BATCH to feed all of Cuba for a whole month.
🇨🇺🤝🇨🇳 The first badge of the 60 thousand tons of rice offered by the People's Republic of China, sets sail towards #Cuba. In response to adversity, the solidarity of true friends prevails and demonstrates that #CubaIsNotAlone.
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The US is suffocating the Cuban people with its criminal and inhumane blockade. We cannot sit idly by. That’s why we are mobilising to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people. Honoured to join this historic mission with @ProgIntl.
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We're busy packing suitcases of medical aid to bring to Cuba tomorrow. 🇮🇪 🇨🇺 GRMA to all who've assisted us source it (special thanks to Dr David Hickey). The USA is illegally and savagely strangling the island and crippling its people.
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Cuba has a proven and consistent track record of helping so many countries not just in the Caribbean but elsewhere during natural disasters, humanitarian crises and just in general. To see so many countries turn their backs on them right now is unbelievable.
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We're absolutely horrified that at least 50 children have reportedly been killed in an Israeli attack on homes in northern Gaza over the weekend. At least 14,100 children have been killed in Gaza so far. How many children killed is too many before our leaders say 'enough is enough'? The UK government remains complicit, refusing to suspend all arms sales - despite the clear risk of violations of International humanitarian law. "If the international community does not intervene soon, an entire generation of children in Gaza will be erased, along with their futures. All states have a legal obligation to prevent the crime of genocide" - Jeremy Stoner, Middle East Regional Director for Save the Children. We are continuing to urge the UK government to use its power and influence to secure an immediate, definitive ceasefire, and suspend all arms sales to the Government of Israel.
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Israel has spent the past year desecrating international law on live TV. Now it is waging war on the UN itself, including 10,000 peacekeepers from 50 countries stationed in Lebanon. What will it take for the UK to end its military, economic & diplomatic support for Israel?
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