Dad, Youth Development Specialist, CEO of ACT CIC & Founder of The Serious Youth Violence Network . Empowering & Connecting Communities to End Youth Violence.
Birmingham UK
Joined September 2011
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Terms like "knife crime" and "gangs" oversimplify & often obscure the complex social dynamics involved. Reducing a range of issues—poverty, structural inequality, trauma, marginalisation, lack of opportunity into a single, stigmatised term "knife crime" or demonising label "gang"
Why does the West Midlands have the worst rate of knife crime in the country?
Teswal White, chief executive of @ACTCIC says deprivation is the problem.
#KayBurley SG
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Preping for a session on marginalisation and its impact on communities. It baffles me how many people who support young people impacted by #seriousyouthviolence that dont understand what #Marginalisation is! Today, we will be exploring the following in detail #gangscourse
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Publishing at the end of the month!
Reveals powerful testimonies from black voices caught up in the CJ system & involved in speaking out against slavery, & highlights the pivotal role played by black activists during significant periods of British history
routledge.com/9780367743963
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OCN Level 3
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🚨 PLEASE READ 🚨
An update on a Manchester based trial against 10 of our city’s young people.
This is the brutal, unjust reality of ‘gangs policing’. We hope for justice next week.
Plain text statement: bit.ly/37rkSx0
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EXCLUSIVE SET VIDEO!!!!
This a behind the scenes look at MARCUS, our play that we will be screening this coming August!
We hope you are going to enjoy what we make and support us along the journey to get MARCUS made!
#marcus #marcusgarvey #windrush #blackstorypartnership
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NEW JOB ALERT 🚨📢⚠️
We are looking for new Community Sports Coaches to join our growing team. Please contact [email protected] for more information 😁
#job #sportingelite #morethanjustagame
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Meet some of the amazing Black British Talent who are changing history for good with technology.
Today it’s the turn of @theultrapreneur, founder of @Ultra_Education.
#BlackHistoryMonth #ProudtoBe
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You three men have nothing to be ashamed of. You allowed my two young black boys to dare to dream and realise anything is possible. No trophy in the world can match this. Hold your heads up young kings, you did this for all of us. PROUD ✊🏿❤️🖤
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This is why we take the knee. Praying for a better future - worthy of the values, beauty and respect exemplified by every single England player.
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Newtown Park #Jumpstart! Come join us and meet the local team and find out what’s happening in your area @BCCYouthService @Harborne_Jayne @cummins23 @Ms_SThompson @CllrJohnCotton @WestMidsVRU @BrumPartnership @BhamYouth @ShabanaMahmood @WestMidsFire @AVFCFoundation @KhanZubedah
Not to be missed
ANOTHER PREMIER TOMORROW. This time @PrimeVideo showing the huge #RedWhiteAndBlue starring @JohnBoyega @StevieToussaint @AntoniaLThomas @_NadineMarshall. The 3rd episode of the #SmallAxe series by Steve McQueen on @BBCOne, on my story, has had a big impact since Sunday’s premier.
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Thank you everyone for attending our last Thinking Spaces today in partnership with @natyouthagency as always we had a room full of knowledge, experience &skills & had honest & brave conversations. We finished with a BANG so much passion & commitment to racial justice&youth work!
come on now 👏👏👏
Congratulations to Cllr Thomson @Ms_SThompson on wining the Baton award for political figure an award well deserved @BhamYouth @BhamCityCouncil
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If I never do another Interview again....I will be happy that I got to say this in @Channel4News ...sorry for interrupting you @jonsnowC4
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youth work sport and social justice w/ johnny nelson pscp.tv/w/coq46jE1MTUyNjh8MU…