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14Apr/23

CANTU BEAUTY CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, ANNOUNCING FOURTH YEAR OF PARTNERSHIP WITH WOMEN EMPOWERING NATIONS TO CULTIVATE FEMALE LEADERSHIP

April 14, 2023FashionCantu, France, Germany, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom, United Statesadmin

Cantu Beauty, an award-winning textured hair care brand, once again joins Women Empowering Nations (WEN) to host the 2023 Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Global Cohort: an immersive, high impact leadership coaching experience beginning this month through July 2023 for women of color across the globe. This year’s cohort builds on the 2022 program and received applications from more than 2,500 young women from seven countries — the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Germany, Ghana and Nigeria. This year’s investment will eclipse $1 million in total by Cantu toward community efforts across programs and partners including Women Empowering Nations. Continue reading

14Apr/23

When what you type doesn’t mean the same thing to the (older) person you’re texting or tweeting

April 14, 2023InternetCreative Commons, Culture, Daniel Bürkle, David Cameron, Full stop, Grace Seger, Gretchen McColloch, Humanities, Humour, Internet slang, Irony, Linguistics, Martineau, McCulloch, Online chat, Paris, Paris Martineau, Punctuation, Rebekah Brooks, Sarcasm, SMS language, Typography, United Kingdomadmin

Daniel Bürkle, University of Central Lancashire

On a day-to-day level, the way we interact with the people around us is shaped by our expectations, which are rooted in our experience. Most adults experience more regular and intensive contact with adults of roughly the same age as them. It is no surprise then – as a cursory glance at any multigenerational Twitter row over the past decade clearly demonstrates – that our expectations tend to be skewed towards how our own age group expresses themselves.

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11Apr/23

‘It’s like you’re a criminal, but I am not a criminal.’ First-hand accounts of the trauma of being stuck in the UK asylum system

April 11, 2023PoliticsAngela, Anne Burghgraef, Asylum seeker, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Australia, Creative Commons, Cultural globalization, Democratic Republic of Congo, Demography, Dostoevsky, Ebele, Edward, Edward Crawford, European migrant crisis, Farah, Forced migration, George, Gloria, Guinea, Haram, Imani, Immigration, Immigration detention, International law, Iran, Joy, Lagos, Leeds, Leon, Mariama, Nigeria, Pete Maclaine, Peter William Walsh, Refugee, Refugees, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Steve Taylor, United Kingdom, Unity, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Zimbabweadmin

Steve Taylor, Leeds Beckett University

Warning: this story contains graphic descriptions of violence. Pseudonyms are used to protect the interviewees’ identities.

Angela had already been in the UK as an asylum seeker for nine years and four months when we interviewed her. She was still in a state of limbo, unsure whether asylum would be granted, and her story was disturbing to hear.

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10Apr/23

Good Friday Agreement: the early 1990s back-channel between the IRA and British government that made peace possible

April 10, 2023PoliticsBill Clinton, Brendan Duddy, British MPs, Creative Commons, Derry, George Mitchell, Harold Wilson, Ireland, Irish hunger strike, Irish Republican Army, Irish republicanism, Irish republicans, John Chilcot, John Major, London, Lynch, Martin McGuinness, Members of the Northern Ireland Forum, Niall Dochartaigh, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Northern Ireland, O'Doherty family, Patrick Mayhew, Robert McLaren, Sinn Féin, United Kingdom, United States, William Whitelawadmin

Niall Ó Dochartaigh, University of Galway

In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike.

If [the British government] think there is something to be lost by stating publicly how flexible they would be, or how imaginative, we are saying they should tell us privately … there is an avenue which they are aware of whereby they can make what imaginative steps they are thinking about known to the Republican movement.

It was a crucial early step on the road to the Good Friday Agreement.

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07Apr/23

TCL PARTNERS WITH ARSENAL TO ENHANCE CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND EUROPE

April 7, 2023FootballArsenal F.C., ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB, Computer languages, Cross-platform software, Programming languages, Tcl, United Kingdomadmin

TCL, a Global top 2 TV brand, has announced a new partnership with Arsenal Football Club. The collaboration will give Arsenal supporters in the UK, Middle East and Africa more opportunities to engage with the club, while also increasing TCL’s expanding footprint in sport by becoming the club’s Official Regional Consumer Electronics Partner in those markets.

With a mission to Inspire Greatness, TCL understands the impact sport has on people around the world and the new partnership aims to engage supporters around their common passion for football. Continue reading

01Apr/23

You herd it here first: Yeo Valley Organic creates the UK’s first of many cow crossings

April 1, 2023TransportCattle, Equus, Mammals, Pedestrian crossings, United Kingdom, Zebra, Zebra crossingadmin

A makeover is underway on Britain’s roads with the introduction of the UK’s first ‘cow crossing,’ championing native animals over the traditional zebra crossing we’ve used for the past 70 years. Continue reading

27Mar/23

Vuzix Smart Glasses Support New Partnership Designed to Solve Global Health Workforce Shortages

March 27, 2023HealthcareAccessibility, Articles, Augmented reality, Display technology, Educational technology, Human–computer interaction, Mixed reality, Multimodal interaction, Smartglasses, Technology, United Kingdom, Vuzix, VUZIX CORPORATION, Wearable computersadmin

Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced that its smart glasses have been selected to support a new partnership between med-tech specialist Global Health Education Group (“GHEG”) and the University of Leeds, one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. GHEG has developed an online learning tool designed to significantly increase the accessibility, scale and quality of clinical training opportunities available to healthcare students. Continue reading

27Mar/23

How Black children in England’s schools are made to feel like the way they speak is wrong

March 27, 2023SocialAmanda Spielman, Articles, Benjamin Zephaniah, Creative Commons, Critical theory, Derron Wallace, Discrimination, Human behavior, Humans, Ian Cushing, Institutional racism, Joy, London, Michael Gove, Post-structuralism, Racism, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, SHUTTERSTOCK, Social inequality, Social privilege, Sociolinguistics, United Kingdom, Word gapadmin

Ian Cushing, Edge Hill University

Whiteness is an invention of the modern, colonial age. It refers to the racialisation of white people and the disproportionate privilege – social, linguistic, economic, political – that comes with this. Crucially, as an invention, whiteness is not innate – it is taught.

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24Mar/23

Women only gained access to the London Stock Exchange in 1973 – why did it take so long?

March 24, 2023FinanceAberdeen, Amy Elizabeth Bell, Australian Securities Exchange, Bradford, Budapest Stock Exchange, Creative Commons, Economy of London, Edith Midgley, Finance, Financial markets, Glasgow, Huddersfield, James Taylor, Julia Hoggett, London, London Stock Exchange, Manchester, Money, Muriel Bailey, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stock, Stock exchange, Stock market, THE BANK OF ENGLAND, Thomas Mortimer, United Kingdom, United States, Victoria Woodhulladmin

James Taylor, Lancaster University

On March 26 1973, the London Stock Exchange admitted its first female members. This followed years of resistance, with London trailing behind other smaller exchanges around the UK.

That women had been excluded for so long was not only due to institutional misogyny. Research has shown how finance was imagined in sexist terms for centuries. And despite the extraordinary accomplishments of prominent female figures over the past 50 years, these biased beliefs persist to this day.

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22Mar/23

Casey review: key steps the Met police must take to address its institutional racism and sexism

March 22, 2023CrimeAnti-corporate activism, Articles, Baroness Casey, Civil rights and liberties, Creative Commons, David Carrick, Dissent, Freedom of expression, Freedom of speech, John Fox, Law enforcement in the United Kingdom, London, Louise Casey, Mark Rowley, Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Police, Prevention, Sarah Everard, Stephen Lawrence, United Kingdom, Wales, Wayne Couzens, Whistleblower, William MacPherson, Workplace bullyingadmin

John Fox, University of Portsmouth

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.

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