Challenging the narrow ideals of beautiful hair, by encouraging women and girls of African descent to love and embrace their natural hair texture.
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Lekia Lée retweeted
Lest we forget our grandfathers, our uncles and brothers whom history and literature books have forgotten🙏🏿🙏🏿
This is what it means to be able to eat what you also put on your hair smile 😄 😄 #livingnaturally #nochemicals
Lekia Lée retweeted
Racism is widespread in education. We have staff worried about returning to work next week. This past year shows there is a need for a helpline dedicated to supporting teachers in the Black community to stay in the profession. Follow & RT to amplify our work.
Lekia Lée retweeted
#Racism in #education should be treated as a #safeguarding issue, with #antiracist policies in all schools says author @jeffreykboakye
Our children & young people, who are marginalised by race, are at risk if staff aren’t adequately trained theguardian.com/education/20…
We get you and as for throwing shade, you can't reduce yourself or hide your principles because of someone else's ego. It's up to individuals to take responsibility for their choices. We'll done @seyiakiwowo 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿
In April I turned down an MBE and spoke exclusively with @BlackBalladUK where I talk about my reasons for declining an MBE + what success and self-validation mean.
👉🏿 blkbld.uk/3C38yjm.
Well done Scotland. We cannot continue to ignore the reality of racism and its insidious nature. We cannot heal what we do not face up to and we all need healing from the idea of race and its impact.
Professional Learning – Promoting Race Equality and Anti-racist Education
Some great ideas from @EdScotPLL @MsNatashaBoyce @teacherabrial @LeicesterCitizn @diverseedu @Project_Embrace blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gl…
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo…
Eve Salomon, chair of the museum, said: "The evidence is very clear that these objects were acquired through force, and external consultation supported our view that it is both moral and appropriate to return their ownership to Nigeria."
...but of course!!
Wait a minute @BBCNews, please explain to license fee payers how this could have been a mistake. Seems like the bar is getting lower and lower for BBC news employment criteria or maybe its always been this low for certain group of people, the ones with implicit racial bias 🤔
Did @BBCNews just mistakenly put up a pic of @sterling7 when discussing an unnamed player accused of rape. Apology needed but really thus is intentional @Nadine_Writes @EddieNestorMBE @Hair_Valley
I had to do a safeguarding training recently and was shocked to see there was nothing to safe guard children against racism.
Please sign n share
Petition: Mandatory anti-racism and microaggression training for teachers petition.parliament.uk/petit…
This 11 year old boy was repeatedly being racially abused & bullied at school. Even though his teachers were aware, nothing was done. One day he was so severely beaten that he lost his finger trying to escape his bullies.
Let's help him get a new finger
gofund.me/c9083ffb
Before George Floyd, Ian Taylor happened in the UK but where is the outrage, where is the news coverage?
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"You subscribe to every definition out there - about relationships, being independent, being successful, being Black, being confident - until you get to a part of your life where you’re like, 'I really reject it'" - @violadavis
📷: @KeithMajorPhoto
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Trevor Stuurman: Life Through The Lens contemporaryand.com/exhibiti…
And this is why fighting racism in UK is such a challenge.
What’s the difference between racism in South Africa and racism in America? It comes down to directness. #BetweenTheScenes
Lekia Lée retweeted
Thank you, Lekia, from the bottom of our hearts 💕 @Project_Embrace
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women” – Maya Angelou
#SoulPurpose360 #WeAreThatVillage #EmpoweredBlackWomenEmpoweringBlackWomen #iwd22 #breakthebias #InternationalWomensDay2022
Lekia Lée retweeted
Remember #Sharpeville #UNAntiRacismDay @TheLiberationM 21 March webinar with a stellar cast of international speakers talking about building a new resistance movement @ukblm @labourlewis @damiengayle @aamnamohdin @Nadine_Writes @UFFCampaign @marcia_rigg
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Absolutely disgusting behaviour. The poor girl pulled out of her exam needed an empathic listening ear not a dehumanising strip search
So you are right @EvaMSimpson ... 'Heads must roll over horrific strip-search of Black teenage schoolgirl' mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/he…
