When I first heard Dean Atta’s “I Am Nobody’s Nigger” on Sound cloud last week. I was rocked to the core. Not because he was telling anything new, but because I’d never associated that word with being the last word Stephen Lawrence heard or the the last words my African ancestors sold as slaves heard [...]
Written by Remi Makinde / Filed in Family Friendly Events, Lead, Local Events
The East End is some times described as the cradle of Britain’s Jewish Community and over centuries, the cultural landscape has been a varied one and to this day is ever changing. In 1880 there were approximately 46,000 Jews in London, but by 1900 this figure had almost trebled to 135,000, and most were living [...]
Written by Remi Makinde / Filed in Hackney News, Lead
A 19 year-old Hackney teenager has been charged with murdering 20 year-old Kirsty Treloar on Monday January 2nd. Myles Williams of Pond Farm Estate, in Millfields Road, Clapton has also been charged with the attempted murder of Kirsty’s 22 year-old brother Dean and 24 year-old sister Gemma. Kirsty Treloar, was abducted from her family home [...]
Police have named the woman found dead in an abandoned car as Kirsty Treloar, a twenty year old new mother of a one month old baby girl. The baby who was unharmed, was also taken from the address to hospital as a precaution. She remains in hospital under observation. Two other people were found at [...]
Written by Remi Makinde / Filed in Hackney News, Lead
Stoke Newington resident, 29 year-old Dwayne Fields, is once again hoping to challenge the elements of another inhospitable part of the world – the South Pole. In 2010 Dwanye became the first Black Briton to walk from the most northern point of Canada to the magnetic North Pole, covering over 400 miles in 22 days [...]
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