“Eighteen-year-old Ayra would be stunned. There’s still so much to achieve, but I’m grateful for the journey. Seeing young girls singing along at shows, that’s what keeps me going”

- Celestial being
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#NewProfilePic #BBxGoogle Black Ballad We know who we are! Solidarity with Francesca Amewudah-Rivers!

It's publication day for #WaterBaby FKA Chioma Okereke 📚
L K W - loved listening to Chioma Okereke on
BBC Radio London Breakfast Show this morning. She wrote a wonderful piece on being a life-long shapeshifter in Black Ballad today too.
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Nigerian people are one of the largest minority communities in Kent and as a collective they contribute their services in the county while continuing to shape their community. #HomeFromHome via Black Ballad buff.ly/3vCUFaI?

Providing access to black women’s writing at British universities 👩🏾‍🎓

Students at Aston University now have unlimited access to all Black Ballad stories 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽

“The root of my compromise began in 2018 with online monitoring from a toxic intimate situationship

By 2020 I lost access to everything”

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My Abuser Used Technology To Stalk, Isolate & Financially Abuse Me – The Police Did Next To Nothing

Very happy to share my latest article published on Black Ballad talking about my experiences in dancehall and reggae spaces in Asia ☺️ blackballad.co.uk/black-women-be…

Wonderful evening being celebrated by Black Ballad and Google - being surrounded by so many amazing women was divine! Pure genuine vibes of solidarity, respect, admiration and recognition of worth! #bbxgoogle

I’ve had the best IWM ever Black Ballad Google UK

Listen, you can say I am biased but this article is absolutely brilliant.

Give it a read and it’s exactly the sort of story I love reading on BB.

Such a great story and one worthy of a documentary Black Ballad at its best. Given the freedom to express and create black women are unstoppable!

Got my pen out because I was getting annoyed so here we are - discussing the wide brilliance of Black British telly and why moaning about Top Boy at your big age is dumb.
✍🏽me for Black Ballad

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'If you believe that TV only presents Black people in one way, you may be the one with a limited worldview. So time to charge up your laptop or turn on the telly – you have some catching up to do.'

Michaela Makusha with the realness.

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There have been too many great Black-led and Black-written TV shows for this reductive conversation to continue

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If Top Boy Is Your Only Reference For Black British TV, You Need To Catch Up!

✍🏾 Michaela Makusha