Your favourite Aunties, Ak, Farrah and Nana are coming to you live from SXSW London for a special episode packed with dilemmas, culture and nonsense that needs addressing.

AUNTYVENTION

🫂 Should she stay or should she go? After six years of marriage and six years of cheating, one woman finally asked her husband for a divorce. Now he wants another chance. The Aunties unpack whether some relationships are worth saving and when enough is enough.

🫂 And a guy is considering ending a 20-year friendship after watching his best friend become what he sees as a deeply disengaged father. Is it fair to judge someone else's parenting that harshly, or does character matter?

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

💐 Ruka Hair, founders Tendai Moyo and Ugo Agbai, after securing $4.5 million in new funding to continue transforming the textured hair and extensions industry through innovation and science.

💐 Jay Z following a headline-making Roots Picnic performance that reminded everyone why he remains one of Hip Hop's GOATS.

ENEMIES OF PROGRESS

🚩 The jury that cleared Rick Chow, the South Carolina store owner who shot and killed 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack Belton following a dispute over alleged stolen bottles of water, reigniting painful comparisons to Latasha Harlins and Trayvon Martin.

🚩 The theatre company that thought Dreamgirls didn't need Black people, after a predominantly white production of the musical had its licence revoked following public backlash.

🚩 The US and Kenyan governments over plans for a US funded Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya, raising serious questions about transparency, sovereignty and who carries global risk.

🚩 David French, whose comments about only truly understanding racism after adopting his Ethiopian daughter sparked debate about empathy, privilege and people only caring when it becomes personal.

🚩 The Trump administration bombing over 205 Caribbean people under the guise of combating drug trafficking.

🚩 Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for their controversial luxury resort plans on Albania's Sazan Island, facing protests and backlash This is the honest conversation you won't hear anywhere else..

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