Necessary Rebels

Malik experienced racism from a young age initially in the care system where he was taken into custody aged nine in 1975 after his father had a stroke having committed no crime.  He moved to several different community homes where he suffered varying degrees of physical and racial abuse over the years until his care order ceased at the age of 18. Soon after he was mentored  by Gill Scott Heron who  saw something in him that he did not see in himself - potential!

There is so much here including a cup full of gems! Hope you are ready for the ride!

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised was inspired by the Last Poets' Niggers Are Scared of Revolution.

Letters to Gil available for pre order can be found here. 

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Jana is a mixed Indo-Guyanese and Egyptian Muslim and is breaking barriers through the intersection of her art and research. Here she talks about  the underrepresentation of the Indo-Caribbean Windrush generation, the journey of Indo-Caribbean people through India and the Caribbean, and how they came to be in London.   
 
You can find Jana here 
Her podcast Sae can be found here

Black women who often face racial discrimination throughout their lives experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of death related to pregnancy or childbirth. On this episode we talk with Liz, a community midwife about racial and ethnic differences in child birth complications and maternal death rates. The disparity has everything to do with the lived experience of race.

‘We are a resilient people. Just like we have generational trauma, we must remember we also have resilience.’ 

On this episode we talk to Sherod Haynes currently an MD-PhD Candidate at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City who has been applying his extensive scientific knowledge and understanding to settings of civilian trauma and the psychological effects of systemic racism. 

And Temara J. Holt, a Ph.D Candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of
Houston. Her dissertation and research interests focus on trauma disclosure among women of color and the impact of intergenerational and cultural trauma on interpersonal relationships. 

I hope you are ready! 

Author and sociologist Fiona Peters joins us to discuss the care system, race and childhood. Fiona wrote the book Fostering Mixed Race Children Everyday Experiences of Foster Care. To purchase a copy please visit: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137541833 

For more information and to support the Change The Story Campaign please see: https://littleboxofbooks.co.uk/our-story/changethestory/ 

The following reports were cited in this episode:
DoE The fostering system in England Evidence review (2017):
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629383/The_fostering_system_in_England_Evidence_review.pdf 

Gov.UK (2018) Independent review of foster care published: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/independent-review-of-foster-care-published 

The Guardian (2018): Why do we separate the mother and child victims of domestic abuse?: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/20/separate-mother-child-victims-domestic-abuse 

Dionne Usherwood , Head of Children’s Integrated Commissioning talks about her journeys from the  outside in.

The Leadership imbalance - Black and Asian leaders missing in action cited in this episode can be found here: https://www.ppma.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Leadership-imbalance.pdf

For this episode, we invited  past guests, as well as friends and activists, to share their views  on the government's  recently published Sewell report on race and ethnic disparities. Reactions are resounding! 

Thank you to the following contributors — Michael Harper,  Martha Daniels, Dionne Usherwood, Rosemarie Jenkins, Marcus Shukla, Dr. Simi, Deborah Gordon, Shabnam Ahmed, Esther Fajoye, Meg Lyons, SiSta QueEn, Ana Barandalla, Dianne Greyson and Josephine Namusisi Riley. 

We are joined again by the wonderful psychologist, sociologist, researcher and anthropologist Abu-Bakr Madden Al-Shabazz to discuss the controversial  report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. 
We delve into the reactions to the report, the data behind it and its relevance in modern Britain. 

You can download a copy of the report here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-report-of-the-commission-on-race-and-ethnic-disparities 

We discuss the ethnicity pay gap with Dianne Greyson - a professional mediator, author and campaigner who specialises workplace equality, diversity and inclusion.

For more information on how to support the ethnicity pay gap campaign please see: https://www.synergisedsolutions.com/ethncitypaygap 

Dianne’s website be found at: https://www.synergisedsolutions.com

The Race Inequality in the Workforce report cited in this episode can be found here: 

https://d1ssu070pg2v9i.cloudfront.net/pex/carnegie_uk_trust/2020/03/27160925/Race-Inequality-in-the-Workforce-Final.pdf 

Abu-Bakr  is a psychologist, sociologist, researcher and anthropologist. At present he is a Black History Officer for Race Council Cymru. Listen to Abu-Bakr school us about Black History told and untold. Hope you're ready!