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Power is never given - This was the very first line I heard at Operation Black Vote when I started my internship at the beginning of summer.

Generally, people would ask me what I have learned in those short months, and whether I got what I signed up for. But in reality, that particular phrase was the one that shaped the learning process I went through.

One of the greatest film directors of all time, Spike Lee, came into London for star-studded special viewing of his film ‘The Black-k-Klansman" to make a point. And boy, did he and his film make a point.

Aretha Franklin: There will never be another queen.

by Rev Jesse Jackson

My heart is heavy and in so much pain. A lot of music left earth today. The Heavens rejoice. Aretha, my sister beloved and friend with the 4 octave range and inimitable sound, has gone even higher. She had been battling a debilitating illness over the last few years. She fought as gallantly as she sang, with faith, power and dignity.

"Young, Gifted and Black”

The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin has died peacefully with her family at her bedside.

Franklin sold more than 75 million records in her lifetime, won numerous awards and was respected worldwide as one of the greatest performers that ever lived.

She not only sang at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009, in 2015 in another performance she brought President Barack Obama to tears with her performance.

Students at Croydon College got the shock of their lives today when one of the world’s biggest Grime Artist Stormzy showed up there to tell students that he would fund a number of students who got the grades to study at Cambridge.

In a heartfelt message Stormzy said:

When I was at school I was ambitions to study at Oxbridge but some people did not realise the option was open to them.”

Re: Open letter to Momentum National Executive from a broad range of national black organisations re your inferred claim that Black people can be racist to Muslims.

On 8 August 2018 in response to Boris Johnson's recent and dreadful comments outlining his views on Muslim women wearing Burkas, you re-circulated a short viral video entitled, "This Is What Boris Johnson's Racism Fuels"

Bethnal Tube Station has never seen anything like it: Hundreds of local people supporting Frank the coffee vendor, who has a pitch outside the tube station, came out to support him last night.

One elderly lady who spoke at the protest rally said that, "Anyone can serve up coffee, but Frank did much more than that. He served up a daily smile, along with warmth and great humanity, which, in this day and age, is priceless."

This sentiment seemed to be what brought the vast crowds out in short notice.

On 2nd of August, Roma around the world commemorate the Roma Genocide during the Second World War. On this day back in 1944, nearly 3000 Roma and Sinti were killed in the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau under the regime of Nazi Germany.

Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary and wannabe leadership contender for the Conservative party has rightly come under fire for inflammatory comments made about Muslim women and their chosen attire.

Johnson’s specific remarks were "it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes". He further went on to say that if "a female student turned up at school or at a university lecture looking like a bank robber" he would ask her to remove her Burqa.

Frank Wang has been serving coffee from his cart outside Bethnal Green Tube Station to local residents for nearly 15 years. Many local people and visitors to the area have experienced his kindness, generosity and good humour. He's a friend to many and during the cold weather he even gives out free hot drinks to the local homeless.