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Notting Hill Carnival is in danger of being cancelled for the second year in succession if social distancing measures aren’t eased, that’s according to Matthew Phillip, the Chief Executive of Notting Hill Carnival Ltd.

Speaking on Tuesday at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee meeting, Matthew Phillip, who is the Chief Executive of Notting Hill Carnival Ltd commented on the impact in which the pandemic continues to have on any future plans to have the event run in a physical capacity.

Latosha Brown, Jamaal Bowman, and Nikema Williams are some of the many noticeable faces celebrating the news that Stacey Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Given the events of the last six months and her decisive role in the US Presidential election, it’s unsurprising that news of her nomination has been so welcomed.

Involvement in community affairs is a priority for Atif Ali. At only 26 he is a trustee at the Veolia Environmental Trust, a group that collects waste and redistributes surplus treasury funds toward local projects and is a board member for Bournville Trust, a housing provider in the Bournville and Telford areas.

His ties to the community have now deepened after being confirmed as the School Governor for Fox Hollies Special School. For Atif, the opportunity to take the role at a school like Fox Hollies was especially significant.

To diversify the existing literature in schools, every primary school in England is set to receive a free anthology of books written by Black British authors.

The groups behind the initiative which has been titled ‘Happy Here’ include Reading based-charity Book Trust, the publisher Knights Of and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE). It will pair work from 10 black authors and illustrators including Yomi Sode, Joseph Coelho, Onyinye Iwu and Selom Sunu.

As the UK and other European countries engage in a bitter fight for the lion’s share of available covid-19 vaccines, and here in the UK there continues to be deep cynicism by some Black Asian and minority ethnic individuals whether or not to take the vaccine, the poorest countries around the world, according to the World Health organization (WHO) are being completely and utterly excluded from getting any vaccines at all.

OPPORTUNITY ALERT! The deadline is Sunday, 14 February 2021.

The University of Bath is launching a new programme aimed at helping black students gain places at the University. Target Bath, which launched in partnership with the recruitment company Rare, is targeted at students currently in year 12 and aims to take on 50 applicants.

A year on since the passing of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven other passengers in Calabasas, the NBA paid their respects with a raft of homages from players both past and present. Monday saw the Brooklyn Nets’ point guard, Kyrie Irving, arrive at the Barclays Center donning Kobe’s iconic number 8 jersey. The game against Miami Heat was played a day before the year of Kobe’s passing, but the reverence for Bryant was such that Irving, who had idolised the Lakers legend, was still moved to mark the occasion.

The public petition demanding the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) release body cam and CCTV footage relating to the detention and release of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan is nearing its 2,000 signature target.

This week, we’ve seen a flow of editorials and homages dedicated to revisiting the events of the New Cross house fire. Monday marked 40 years since January 18th 1981, the day that resulted in the lives of 13 young Black youths being lost.

Within a few hours of taking office as the 46th President of the United States, President Joe Biden made his intentions to acknowledge and tackle race inequality abundantly clear. He signed two critical executive orders that will give African, Latin, Asian, Native Americans, Muslims and other minority ethnic communities in the United States great hope. These included an executive order on advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities through the Federal Government.