The #EndSARS movement has been happening since 2017 in protest at police brutality in Nigeria, especially that coming from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. This October, the movement was reignited at a scale unseen so far. Nigerians from across regions, religions and the political…
Written by Charlotte Smith
They’ve Gotta Have Us is a docuseries of three episodes on Netflix charting the history of Black Cinema. The series interviews a host of esteemed black figures from on and off screen in Hollywood from pioneer Harry Belafonte…
Written by Charlotte Smith
While we all stay home to save lives, shops were shut and city centres deserted. Everywhere was eerily quiet in an almost apocalyptic way. Everywhere seemed different, except for one thing: the artificial city lights still blazed. Why?…
The county of Nottinghamshire is home to some of the most deprived communities in the country, with areas in Nottingham East such as Sneiton and St Ann’s being ranked in the top 10% most deprived areas nationally. In the wake of the coronavirus…
The popular crisp brand Walkers has recently adopted a new technique that it claims will reduce the CO2 emissions from its manufacturing process by 70%. The new technology will use CO2 captured from beer fermentation in a brewery, which is mixed with potato…
Hand eczema affects up to 6 million people in the UK and can have serious implications on day to day life that many individuals are not aware of.
Now, with the rise of COVID-19, hand washing, and the use of hand sanitisers has…
COVID-19 has dominated the world news over the last year as well as almost every other aspect of peoples lives. India is no exception: with 9.4 million positive cases and 137,000 deaths, the country has the second highest number of cases globally and,…
Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox was recently caught up in a transphobic attack in Los Angles. Addressing the issue in a 10 minute video to her Instagram followers, she said that ‘it’s not safe if you’re a trans person’ when…
Despite the country now going into its second lockdown of the year, tensions between drug gangs are amounting to a ‘power struggle’ in the Meadows and St Ann’s in Nottingham. According to the force’s knife crime team, which is based at St Ann’s…
A recent analysis from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has suggested that the poorest areas of England have seen the biggest cuts to councils’ public health budgets. What is more, it is these regions that have also been hit the hardest…