I recite a poem dedicated to my two Beautiful guests - Nickiesha Barnett and Charlene Noel.  They share their inspiring and lived experiences of being Black and Beautiful.   We reflect on the recent Black Live Matter protests, the importance of using...

Part 2 conversation with my niece and nephew......Teaching our children our own history has never been more important - it comes with a level of responsibility.  This means that these episodes are a very small part of what they are being exposed to - to...

My niece and nephew, join me for this 1st part of 2 conversations recorded in August 2019 when I was in Zimbabwe.    Our conversations will centre on the importance of instilling a culture of meaningful self-worth, self-love on our children and teaching...

The episode opens with an interview featuring Toni Morrison in 1998 - being interviewed by a white woman called Jana Wendt.   White privilege doesn't mean your life has not been hard - it just means that your skin colour is not one of the things making...

I open with a poem by Naomi Johnson - My Black is Beautiful. This episode is a conversation between a Beautiful and Proud to be Nigerian British Woman - Charity Evwierhoma and I.    Charity  unpacks who she is,  what she does and how she got there!  ...

QuarantineMonologues. I open this episode with another reading from Robin Diangelo's book - "White Fragilty" and define what Aversive Racism is.  An example being when a white person rationalises / says "there are no BAME people in Director level roles...

I open this episode by reading extracts from a book by a white woman called Robin Diangelo - titled "White Fragility".  I am defining racial macroAgressions as acts of racism which are inexcusably  aggressive statements against people of colour, an...

QuarantineMonolgue 2 I open with a poem titled " In the Time of Pandemic”,  Catherine M. O’Meara.  The world and the dictionary is changing - the World Health Organization calls the spread of false information on Coronavirus an "infodemic". I'm not...

#QuarantineMonologue 1.  I open with a poem entitled "Pandemic" by Lynn Ungar. STAYatHOME!  Then just before I start my rant on how the people trying to make money out of a public health emergency - could be more useful by directing their expertise at...

"......jumping through windows - if the door is closed, don't keep banging on it!!!" A Mother, a Wife, Jamaican Maroon, a Warrior, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and  Senior Nurse.   I open the episode with a poem written by Nichole McIntosh...