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The Black Ballad Weekender:
👑 100 black women speaking
👑 Over 40 panels, workshops, keynotes & interviews
👑 Celebrating 10 years of black stories, black women & Black Ballad
👑 Across 2 days in August
✨Introducing the 1st 12 speakers for
#BBWeekender
✨
🔥 🔥🔥
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Despite the outcome, these boys are going to continue to be role models for young Black boys all over the country 💜🏴
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How it started How it’s going
Michaela Coel is making HISTORY! Winning an Emmmy for Best Writing in a Television Limited Series or Movie for ‘I May Destroy You’ AND being the first Black woman to win this award 💐💜
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Black Women Did It First: The True Trendsetters Of The Beauty Industry 💅🏾
(A Thread)
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22nd April 2019 - The first National Stephen Lawrence Day.
An official day to commemorate a legacy we can not & must not ever forget
13 September 1974 - 22 April 1993
Rest in Peace ❤️🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏽
#SLDay
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👩🏿 Invest in Black Women
👩🏾 Support Black Women
👩🏽 Hire Black Women
👩🏿 Celebrate Black Women
👩🏾 Reward Black Women
👩🏽 Promote Black Women
And just to avoid any confusion - PAY BLACK WOMEN 💰
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Congratulations to the beautiful Alexandra Burke & Darren Randolph who are expecting their first child in June!🥺💜
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Nearly 15 yrs ago, aged 13, I sat down to write a story about a girl who, despite being deemed socially undesirable, found love
That’s how Keisha The Sket began to take form
How 'Keisha The Sket' Accidentally Decolonised Literature
📝 Jade LB
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"White women's media cares more about avocados than black women"
Then let's make our own
#BlackBalladCrowdfund
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a thread of Little Miss, but Black women edition enjoy🙂💁🏾♀️
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We are deeply saddened by what has unfolded with Candice Brathwaite, who has spent YEARS pushing for the conversation on black motherhood being replaced by Rochelle in a documentary on the high rate of black women in the U.K dying in childbirth (thread)
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11,631 Black women and girls were missing in 2018/19. How many of those cases made mainstream news?
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Yesterday was the funeral of 24-year-old
#MohamudHassan
& instead of national coverage, his story is going unheard. We will not be quiet about police brutality, we will not be quiet about institutional racism & we will not be quiet about the injustice black people face in the UK
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🗣🗣🗣 ANNOUNCEMENT!
We are pleased to announce that Black Ballad has secured the bag & has been awarded a £70,000 grant from the
#FutureNewsFund
, powered by
@nesta_uk
&
@bg_ventures
to better empower, create for & serve black women outside of London!
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Some saw the angry black woman.
We saw black sisterhood as we witnessed the crowning of a new queen blessed with comfort and cheers from the Greatest of All Time.
👩🏾🎨:
@thecamru
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Last night, Black Ballad won a £15,000 grant + £100k of business support at the
@DeutscheBank
Awards For Creative Entrepreneurs! 😭😭😭
Thank you
@MeWe360
&
@dbCitizenship
for believing in our vision of serving, celebrating & paying black women! 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽
#SecureTheBag
#DBACE2019
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Rest in power bell hooks ❤️
Her work holds a significant space in so many of our lives.
A legacy that will live on forever 💜
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"The reason behind the surge in attention itself didn’t hurt me – I’m far too old & secure within myself to be affected by name-calling”
Yes - we interviewed Auntie Paula
At Home With "Auntie Paula" Of
@hillhousevintag
📝
@LeahSinclairr
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"While I believe Osaka will be the future of women’s tennis, this constant desperation by the media to make her the current face of tennis and oust Serena is fuelled by ageism, but also colourism."
👉🏾
📝
@IamTobiOredein
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Happy Birthday to Angela Davis💜
An activist who continues to use her voice to stand up for racial justice, prison reform, and inspiring a new generation 👏🏾
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The pictures mainstream press won’t show us 🎾👸🏽👸🏾
Watching 2 BW play the
#USOpen
final was beautiful. Serena spoke up for what she believed was right but she also congratulated & comforted Naomi
Mainstream has an agenda they’re going with, but that’s not us & never will be
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Congratulations to
#MichaelaCoel
for being cast in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to the 2018 movie Black Panther! 👏🏾
We love to see it 🙌🏾
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Today’s lesson from our editor: it is not everything you need to say yes to.
In fact it will always be a no to debating on
@GMB
.
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#HappyBlackPantherDay
There are no words or emojis adequate enough to describe how glorious these covers are. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Happy Independence Day indeed Barbados 🇧🇧👏🏾
They're now officially a republic after nearly 400 years! Dame Sandra Mason (left) has been elected as the islands first-ever president. She'll lead the island alongside Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley (right)
We love to see it!🙌🏾
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Serena's letter to her mum is beautiful, touching & possibly the classy response that Sharapova doesn't deserve
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#EndSARS
Last night the Nigerian army fired live bullets into a crowd of peaceful protestors at Lekki toll gate. There are reports of soldiers stealing dead bodies (so we’ll never know how many died) & ambulances were stopped from attending to the hurt & dying
What can you do?
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WE DONE IT WE HIT THE TARGET 🎉
£250K and counting invested from black women & allies to secure the future of
@BlackBalladUK
To every one of you that has invested, shared, retweeted THANK YOU 💜
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When
@Lupita_Nyongo
met
@IAmTobiOredein
😍
Full interview:
#UsMovie
Star Lupita Nyong'o Talks Colourism, Self Care & Her Co-star
@Shahadi
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This is a
@LittleSimz
appreciation tweet. 4 Brit Award nominations, her tour which was incredible (the band🤌🏾), the album! She deserves all the flowers💐👏🏾
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This platform is about black women. We are not stopping you from creating a platform for black men and paying them for their labour. Black women are not mules to support everyone else to get their coin. Enjoy your day.
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Without the Black pounds of Black women, Black Ballad doesn’t exist 👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽
Thank you to the thousands of Black women that have been Black Ballad members - you’ve empowered us to empower Black women across the UK 🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏽
Happy
#BlackPoundDay
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We usually don’t comment but what a piece of shit this is. Shameless.
My mother, my King and why the monarchy matters.
A pleasure to write this piece for the
@nytimes
as the country and the Commonwealth prepare for the coronation.
This a moment for all of us to come together.
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Our condolences go out to the family & friends of Richard Okorogheye, rest in perfect peace🌹
Our hearts are heavy, not only after hearing the news but knowing that as mothers, sisters, friends, aunties the U.K continues to show us that institutional racism is truly alive.
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Last night Black Ballad pitched at
@InnovateKings
’s David Walsh Scholarship pitch night & we won £10,000!
The crux of our pitch? We want to pay & represent more black women, something mainstream media should’ve done a long time ago
S/o to
@JENDELLA
who was there in spirit 💜
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#BlackPanther
director Ryan Coogler: "Women are the backbone of any functioning society, but they often have to play the background for whatever reason"
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Your fav platform just won a £5,000 grant as part of the Allesch-Taylor scholarships at
@InnovateKings
🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿
#Kings20
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Congratulations to Meghan Markle & Prince Harry who are expecting their second child 💜
This beautiful photo was captured by longtime friend of the couple, Misan Harriman, the first black photographer to shoot for the cover of British Vogue ✨
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Congratulations to
#DanielKaluuya
who won his first Oscar for playing late Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah
The first black British winner of the supporting actor award 👏🏾
“The Black Panther Party, they showed me how to love myself.” 🖤
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Happy Birthday to us! 🎉 🎊 🎁 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽
Black Ballad first launched 6 years ago today, so our Founder
@IamTobiOredein
took a break from maternity leave to share some thoughts & celebrate!
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Being black in Britain means that:
- you can be deported after living, contributing & paying taxes in the UK
- you have to steer clear of white men wanting to get their revenge by killing “black bastards”
- you can’t even be pregnant without being judged
It’s fucking exhausting
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Meet the duo behind the first guidebook to Black history In London 🇬🇧
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The High Court has ruled that The Mail On Sunday have to publish a front page statement in relation to Meghan Markle’s copyright case win against them
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It’s been 2 years since we said "White women's media cares more about 🥑 than 👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿"
Mainstream media still don't hire us as much as they should
Meanwhile, Black Ballad has paid dozens of 👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿 writers in 🇬🇧, to create 100s of articles for hundreds of thousands of readers
"White women's media cares more about avocados than black women"
Then let's make our own
#BlackBalladCrowdfund
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We are looking for U.K. based charities, organisations and platforms whose work aims to eradicate racial injustice in order to highlight them across our social media.
Please RT and reply with any that you know of.
Thank you 💜
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatterUK
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FloJo’s star-spangled acrylics were a defining moment for the presence of black femininity and beauty in sport
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We are pleased to announce that the founders of Black Ballad,
@IamTobiOredein
&
@MrAwoniyi
, are in the
#ForbesU30Europe
, Media & Marketing, Class of 18! ❤️💜❤️
🤴🏿👸🏿
Black Ballad | 30 Under 30 Europe
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“I don’t think I could even accept something from [the Royal Family]…
Even if they take out the word “empire”, could I even accept the award from that institution?”
BLACK BALLAD EXCLUSIVE:
@seyiakiwowo
On Why She Turned Down An MBE & The Meaning Of Success And Validation
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Sending solidarity & positivity to
@sterling7
after he was racially abused after yesterday’s match. He rightly called out the media, in particular
@DailyMailUK
for fuelling racism which we, everyday black people experience as a result of cheap clicks and race baiting headlines.
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We found the author of Keisha The Sket!
You can read her story & many more stories for, by & about black women that you won’t get anywhere when you become a Black Ballad member
Use BLACKFRIDAY19 at checkout for 40% off any membership for 12 months
Nearly 15 yrs ago, aged 13, I sat down to write a story about a girl who, despite being deemed socially undesirable, found love
That’s how Keisha The Sket began to take form
How 'Keisha The Sket' Accidentally Decolonised Literature
📝 Jade LB
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Black, female writer in 🇬🇧?
We want to commission your work, especially:
- Positive experiences of black womanhood
- Voices & experiences outside LDN
- Underrepresented voices
- Perspectives other black women need to see
PITCH:
RT & help us pay 👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽
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Still the best video on the internet
What’s a dance move or piece of choreography in pop culture that has stuck with you?
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👩🏿 Listen to all black women
👵🏾 Listen to all black women
👱🏽♀️ Listen to all black women
👧🏿 Listen to all black women
🤰🏾 Listen to all black women
👩🏽⚕️ Listen to all black women
🧕🏿 Listen to all black women
👩🏾💻 Listen to all black women
👩🏽💼 Listen to all black women
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Remembering Belly Mujinga
One year on & her family are still seeking justice, our thoughts are with her loved ones🌹
#JusticeForBellyMujinga
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Let Simone Biles & Naomi Osaka be a lesson to all of us black women, our mental well-being should always take priority no matter what!👏🏾
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70 yrs ago today, you started arriving in the UK to help rebuild the economy
You were refused accommodation, paid less & treated poorly.
But you paved the way for us & we are forever thankful
Thank
#WindrushGeneration
❤️💜❤️
#Windrush70
#WindrushDay
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It’s been exactly three years since we dropped this:
"White women's media cares more about avocados than black women”
Have we seen enough change in those three years?
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This is the Great Britain we know and love
Congratulations to our champions of Europe
👨🏽👩🏽👨🏾👩🏾👨🏿👩🏿
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Well done
@kelechnekoff
.
This is a prime example of why this publication says black women and not women of colour.
A clear lack of solidarity here from one woman of colour to another that many still fail to address or even see.
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Happy 30th birthday to our founder & CEO, lover of good suits, fine food & black women getting what they deserve,
@IamTobiOredein
! 🖤💜🖤
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Black, female writer in 🇬🇧? Want to get paid for her journalism in ’19?
We want to commission your work, especially:
- Positive experiences of black womanhood
- Voices & experiences outside LDN
- Underrepresented voices
PITCH:
RT & help us pay 👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽
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Commissioned by Black women
Written by Black women
Edited by Black women
Proofread by Black women
Published by Black women
- created for, loved by & powered by Black women
👩🏿👩🏾🦱👩🏽🦳👵🏿👳🏾♀️👮🏽♀️🧕🏿👷🏾♀️👩🏾⚕️👩🏿🌾👩🏾🍳👩🏽🎤👩🏿🎓👩🏾🏫👩🏽🏭👩🏿💻👩🏾💼👩🏽🔧👩🏿🔬👩🏾🎨👩🏽🚒👩🏿✈️👩🏾🚀👩🏽⚖️👰🏿👸🏾🦹🏽♀️🦸🏿♀️🧙🏾♀️🤰🏽🤱🏿
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"Whether it’s a political tool or fashion statement, hair is never ‘just hair’ to black women"
@mjxmt
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You can't whitewash The Crown's atrocities
- The Mau Mau massacre in Kenya
- The $45 trillion pillage of India
- Inducing the Bengal famine
- Building concentration camps in Kenya
- Mass genocide of Aboriginal communities
- The Suez Crisis in Egypt
🧵
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We know black women are 5x more likely to die in labour than white women, but what do we not know about black women & motherhood?
It's time we found out the truth about black motherhood in Britain
Introducing the Black British Motherhood Survey 2020
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Congrats to
@nubianskin
founder Ade Hassan on her MBE. You've been a game changer in lingerie industry & an example of
#BlackGirlMagic
. 🙌🏾🙌🏾
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£338,323 is the grand total invested into
@blackballaduk
🤯
From a Tumblr blog created by
@iamtobioredein
in her bedroom in East London, to the leading subscription lifestyle platform for Black women in Britain & beyond 👏🏾
& now 1396 black women & allies alike own shares 🎉
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Black female writers, we need your words. Please pitch your ideas to editor
@blackballad
.co.uk ASAP!
This is PAID opportunity.
Please note, fully written articles will NOT be accepted and please see the attached picture to see the correct format on how to pitch.
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Our business plan
Pay black women 👩🏿💼
To create for black women 👩🏾🎨
So black women can have what they deserve 👸🏽
Get paid by black women 💷
So we can invest in more black women 👵🏾👩🏿👱🏾♀️👩🏽⚕️👩🏿🍳👩🏾🎓👩🏽💻👩🏿🔬👩🏾✈️👩🏽⚖️👰🏿🤰🏾🤱🏽
Who’s investing?
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Rihanna is officially a billionaire!
When Fenty Beauty launched in 2017 not only did she completely revolutionise the make up industry but she made sure that black women were front & centre of the brand.
We have no choice but to STAN
👏🏾👏🏽👏🏿
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Black women 🤝 making history!
Congratulations to 'Candyman' director Nia DaCosta who has become the first Black female director to have a film debut in the top spot in the US box office.
It made $22 million in it's opening weekend 👏🏾
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Not a word about all the white women that spoke out, but you dispute the voice of a black woman? 🤔🤥😡
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Mama Skepta/JME/Julie/Jason gets real about her own upbringing & the lessons she took on board when she became a mother
@ifyadenuga
On Happiness, Her Children's Success & Rejecting The Burden Of Culture
📝
@JENDELLA
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Did you know, Black Ballad has never had any mainstream print press... until now?
Its only right that it was with
@IamTobiOredein
surrounded by flying magazines and newspapers 💁🏽♀️💁🏾♀️💁🏿♀️
Thanks
@ELLEUK
!
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It’s
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
Did you know that breast cancer is the leading cancer among black women?
📝
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Our thoughts are with the Black Britons who were unfairly deported back to Jamaica this morning.
It is a reminder that this country does not value or respect black lives in any capacity.
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IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY 🎉
7 years of
@BlackBalladUK
7 years of serving black women in Britain & beyond
7 years of putting our stories first
7 years of creating content that serves black women
7 years of building a community
& we're still thriving💜
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If Black Women don’t stand up for each other, no one will
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"Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage"
Rest In Power Cicely Tyson, a true icon ✨💜
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UK music is worth £5.2bn & creates over 190k jobs
This is how
@thebiancabre
@corrieparris
@ShauniCaballero
&
@Whitb_xx
broke in, thrive & are helping others get into 🇬🇧 music
Black Women Making Things Happen In UK's Music Industry
📝
@annique_simpson
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Black, female writers in 🇬🇧!
We want to commission your work, especially:
- Positive experiences of black womanhood
- Voices & experiences outside LDN
- Underrepresented voices
- Perspectives that we all need to see
PITCH:
RT & help us pay 👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽
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(Thread)
Data reveals that black children are disproportionately overrepresented in the care system, and only 2.7% of the people approved to be adopters in 2018/19 were black, it’s important we debunk the myths on adopting.
Here are 12 myths that prevent people from adopting 👇🏾
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❤
@yewande_biala
appreciation tweet ❤
But seriously, can we discuss how a lot of us can relate to what Yewande is going through, being labeled as a bully, the microaggressions by people not calling you by your name because it's 'too hard to pronounce' it's all a bit familiar...
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