BLAM UK Blog/Press Release
58 years after Shirley Chisholm, what should Black political power deliver?
Black women are making American election history again. But behind every celebrated “first” sits another question. Why did the door remain closed for so long? This week, Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman elected governor in United States history. Melat Kiros became the first Black woman Colorado elected to Congress. These victories deserve…
BRITAIN IS ABOUT TO SCAN YOUR FACE. YOU PROBABLY HEARD IT FROM LAGOS, NOT THE BBC.
Written by Grace A.L. Davis 6/11/2026 The Home Office is moving live facial recognition into general immigration enforcement. We went looking for who was reporting it. What we found says almost as much as the policy does. WHO IS TELLING YOU, AND WHO IS NOT On 4 November 2026, Liberty Investigates uncovered Home Office policy…
CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR GCSEs IN AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LANGUAGES THIS BLACK HISTORY MONTH
LONDON, UK — A community-led campaign launched during Black History Month by barrister, linguistic justice advocate, and Founder of BLAM UK and Afro-Creole Languages Week, Ife Thompson, is calling on UK exam boards to end the structural exclusion of African language families and Afro-descendant Creoles and Pidgins from the GCSE Modern Foreign Languages MFL curriculum. The campaign, backed by…
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