NEW @WritersofColour: War Inna Diaspora - Media Diversified columnist @thetwerkinggirl discusses the diaspora wars that often rage on Black Twitter and whether the debates are as harmless as they first seem mediadiversified.org/2022/02/09/war…
“Everybody would gather and gently tease one another about who made the best rice and peas and if we should use gungo peas or kidney beans. The tone was humorous and fun. Not these days” Rice and peas made with gun...Rice and peas made with kid...
“A lot believe that Black immigrants to the US from the Caribbean and Africa are making their lives harder, taking their jobs and benefits whilst simultaneously mocking them.” Nigerian American couple wa...
“I don’t know if it’s the Internet that has made people extra brave. Maybe we don’t take the time to get enough to know about each other and so modern diaspora wars don’t seem funny to me.” READ MORE: mediadiversified.org/2022/02/09/war… Ava Vidal: a Black woman wi...
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Exclusive: Thousands left in English and Welsh prisons without release dates, despite controversial indefinite sentences long being scrapped - @SamanthaAsumadu for @openDemocracy
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“No IPP prisoner is the same when they come out,” she tells me. "
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Last year, a report from the prison watchdog found that the jail was "certainly not decent or humane".
Now The Argus can reveal a number of deaths at the prison in recent years.

The information comes from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) which lists inmates who passed while serving their time. #JusticeForIPPs
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For deaths after March 1, 2015, the name of the deceased remains in the report, but other names have been anonymised.
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'I’ve been reading a book recently by the American sociologist David T. Wellman with the frankly terrifying title Portraits Of White Racism. I say terrifying because it conjures all kinds of images of Aryan skinhead fascists with big boots and arm-bands.
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“culturally sanctioned strategies for defending social advantage based on race”.
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8. Caitlin Moran, The Times
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