Doreen Lawrence has been a name in my consciousness for the best part of my life and is a woman i admire greatly. The first time I can say I re-call hearing a conversation about her son Stephen Lawrence was walking into McDonalds in Bexleyheath, Kent before school about 14...

Bitch, slag, whore, slut, cow - all names synonymous with the female of the species.

Men call us that and even worse, we call ourselves that, and by ourselves I mean our fellow sisters.

No one knows what it's like to be a woman, better than a woman. No one...

Beyonce recently broke the internet when she performed for 14 minutes at the US superbowl. Well, she didn't quite break the internet but the way people were going crazy I'm surprised she didn't. Women and men alike everywhere saw her dutty wine and shake her bootylicious derriere and...

Inspiration has been an abundant presence in my life this year and looking forward to 2013 I have a responsibility to myself to ensure that it remains so. This time last year I made the decision to be self employed and jump into a new year depending only on myself...

For those like myself who have a family member who suffers from a mental health illness, the inquest into Sean Rigg's death has highlighted a worrying trend of mental health sufferers dying in police custody. Like Sean, Olaseni Lewis also died while under the care of the south...

Yesterday (September 11, 2012) marked 25 years since reggae musician and Rastafarian Peter Tosh was murdered in his home in Jamaica.

Described as the Malcolm X to Bob Marley as Martin Luther King, although Bob was described as the reggae rebel, Tosh was much more radical in his stance...

As we come down from the high off the Olympics (remember that? I know we have super short memories) and into the Paralympics, one thing that has stuck with me is the love affair between London and Jamaica.

When the fastest...

The UK and specifically London is steeped in Jamaican culture and being of Jamaican heritage the recent regeneration of Bob Marley way in Brixton was an important event in celebration of Jamaica's 50th year of independence, British Jamaican-culture and the impact of...

"Whoever you are, wherever you are, I'm beginning to think we're a lot alike. Human beings spinning on blackness. All wanting to be seen, touched, heard, paid attention to. My loved ones are everything to me here. In the last year or 3 i've screamed at my creator. Screamed at...

Growing up in south-east London I was all too familiar with the presence of the theory of racism. Living about five minutes away from the BNP headquarters, about twenty minutes away from the now notorious Eltham and going to a primarily white secondary school, although fortunate to not experience prejudices...

Racism in Britain has once again resurfaced at the forefront of the mainstream news, almost magically as if it disappeared and reappeared overnight. From David Starkey's dogmatic comments last year on the riots being a result of 'whites acting black' to the more recent re-exposure of racism in...

I patiently waited for 15 minutes after putting in a 999 call for an ambulance, before calling back at 6.40am last Monday after my mum's collapse. When the operator told me "it's not unusual to have to wait this length of time during periods of high call volumes" I knew...

I don't know about you but when I thought of 2012 and the 21st century, I thought of flying silver cars, robots for maids and the ability to teleport. Although we're not quite there, we're definitely in the age of innovative technology, when you take into consideration our dependencies on...

The aftermath of the riots that spread across the UK in late summer was much more than just the burnt out buildings and houses, the emotional distress or the job losses - it was also the fingers of blame pointed and name calling by the media and politicians alike.