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Jack and Geraint are joined by journalist Samantha Asumadu to talk about The Trashies, the UK's premier awards for bad journalism, which she's been running via Media Diversified since 2014, and are returning this year after a short absence. We go through some of the worst dogshit printed by the British press in recent memory, before Geraint talks to Sam about her investigative podcast TRAPPED: The IPP Prisoner Scandal. Check out TRAPPED at https://shows.acast.com/trapped-the-ipp-prisoner-scandal, follow it on Twitter at @Trapped_Pod and follow Sam at @SamanthaAsumadu. Media Diversified can be found via https://mediadiversified.org/ and on Twitter @WritersOfColour. Finally, subscribe to Sam's newsletter at https://samanthaasumadu.substack.com/.

Join Barnaby Raine, Nihal El Aasar, and Malia Bouattia for a conversation on how we can build a mass international movement for Palestinian liberation The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.” ― Ghassan Kanafani We are witnessing the growth of a global anti-war movement in response to Israel's war crimes. Despite increased fear mongering and repression, hundreds of thousands around the world are protesting and organising in solidarity with Palestine. Join Barnaby Raine and Nihal El Aasar for a conversation chaired by Malia Bouattia on why we must redouble these solidarity efforts, and how we build a mass international movement for Palestinian liberation. Speakers: Barnaby Raine is writing his PhD at Columbia on visions of ending capitalism. He has written and spoken extensively on Zionism and Jewish radical traditions opposed to it Nihal El Aasar is an Egyptian independent researcher and writer. She has written and conducted research on the Middle East and North Africa. She's a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement Malia Bouattia is the opinion editor at The New Arab and an editor at Red Pepper magazine. She was elected the first woman of colour president of the National Union of Students in the UK in 2016 and has contributed to a number of publications, including ‘For the Many: Preparing Labour for Power' as well as ‘It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race'. Malia produced and hosted prime-time talkshows on a SKY channel, which covered a range of subjects from the war on terror, to gendered violence. She was awarded Media Diversified's '#EightWomen' prize in 2014 and the 'Good Citizen' prize at the Muslim News Awards in 2017. ————————————————————— This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and is part of Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine by Haymarket Books, cosponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest, Palestine Deep Dive, The New Arab, and more. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/4yiILN6-cyo Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

The Best Christian Podcast in the Metaverse Canary Cry News Talk #637 - 06.23.2023 - Recorded Live to Tape NECRO CAPITALISTS | BlackRock Beasts, Musk v Zuck, Titan Tales, In Vitro Meat Market Deconstructing Corporate Mainstream Media News from a Biblical Worldview We Operate Value 4 Value: http://CanaryCry.Support Join Supply Drop: http://CanaryCrySupplyDrop.com Submit Articles: http://CanaryCry.Report Join the Tee Shirt Council: http://CanaryCryTShirtCouncil.com Resource: Index of MSM Ownership (Harvard.edu) Resource: Aliens Demons Doc (feat. Dr. Heiser, Unseen Realm) All the links: http://CanaryCry.Party   This Episode was Produced By: Executive Producers Dame Maureen, Lady of the Appalachian Hills; House of the Fountain of Living Water***   Producers Marie H Jacob B Sir LX Protocol V2, Knight of the Berrean Protocol Sir Scott Knight of Truth Dame Gail Canary Whisperer and Lady of X's and O's Sir Casey the Shield Knight Sir Morv Knight of the Burning Chariots Veronica D   CanaryCry.ART Submissions JonathanF Sir Darrin Knight of the Hungry Pandas Sir Dove Knight of Rusbeltia   Microfiction Runksmash - The hooded beefcake silently helps the captain into the elevator and pushes the button. On the way down an alarm sounds and a monotone voice announces over the speaker “Dangerous BioCon Terrorists have been reported in the area, please stay inside.”   Stephen S - The general reviewed the  crater formerly a drone control center and asked, “Why is the news reporting this as a simulation?”  “Sir, Intel concluded these reports are AI generated.” the captain replied, “They suspect its trying to cover up the incident.”   CLIP PRODUCER Emsworth, FaeLivrin, Joelms, Laura   TIMESTAPERS Jade Bouncerson, Christine C, Pocojo, Morgan E   CanaryCry.Report Submissions JAM, Jen W, BrotherG   REMINDERS Clankoniphius   SHOW NOTES T - 3:52 from D-Live HELLO, RUN DOWN 6:16 V / 2:24 P NECRO CAPITALISM! 8:25 V / 4:33 P Callout for Necro Capitalism Jingle: 9:12 V / 5:20 P “Necrocapitalism: a form of capitalism where a country's trade and industry are founded on, linked to and dependent directly or indirectly on death and the profits accruing from it.” (Media Diversified)   MONEY/EPSTEIN 15:05 V / 11:13 P JPMorgan Chase is fined by SEC after mistakenly deleting 47 million emails (Reuters) → BlackRock top 25 holdings in visual form (Visual Capitalist) → Note: James O'keefe, OMG, Blackrock  “run the world” (MainWire) Clip → Note: Clip: O'keefe confronts BlackRock guy BLACKROCK/UKRAINE 19:14 V / 15:22 P BlackRock and JPMorgan help set up Ukraine reconstruction bank (FT) BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase Partner Ukraine To Launch Reconstruction Bank (BW)   RUSSIA 31:13 V / 27:21 P After Russian Army attacks Wagner, Wagner invades Russia (NYT)   DAY JINGLE/V4V/EXEC./supply/ 43:44 V / 39:52 P   FLIPPY 1:03:44 V / 59:52 P Seven-year-old boy born with one hand raising money for ‘robot arm' (Indy100)   ELON/ZUCK 1:12:26 V / 1:08:34 P Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match / this needs to happen (Verge) → Mario Nawfal "accidentally” the Elon v Mark idea (Twitter)   TITANIC 1:24:25 V / 1:20:33 P → Missing Sub Passengers Believed Dead After Debris Found From Implosion (Wired) U.S. Navy Detected Titan Sub Implosion Days Ago (WSJ) Note: Intelligence memo? → Wife of Titan, OceanGate, related to real Titanic victim, acted Titanic film (TooFab)  → JP Morgan connection to Titanic… → J.P. Morgan did not sink Titanic to push plans for Federal Reserve (Reuters, 2021) →OceanGate CEO on why he didn't want to hire '50-year-old White guys (Fox) → David de Rothschild joins OceanGate BoD, 2012 (CNBC) → Flat Earth connection, Isaac Weishaupt → Shahzada Dawood WEF connections, true, strawman, false (Politifact) → James Cameron Knew, 33 (NPR) → I was invited to join ill-fated Titan ocean adventure – Ned Nwoko (Qed) → Simpsons did not predict submarine (Snopes) →Distraction from: Perhaps the Hunter Biden story? (CNN)   TREASURE/SPEAKPIPE/TALENT 1:56:45 / 1:52:53 P   FOOD/BEAST SYSTEM  2:18:16 V / 2:14:24 P First Lab Grown Meat Products Approved for Sale in US (Futurism) → Beyond Meat Wannabes Are Failing as Hype Money Fade (MSM/Bloomberg)   V4V/TIME 2:33:15 V / 2:29:23 P END  

The fourth episode in the Kashmir Palestine Conversation Series addresses “Poetry and literature” and feature short presentations from Dalia Taha (poet and playwright) and Ather Zia (poet and writer, University of Colorado). The chair is Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck, University of London) About the speakers Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet and playwright living in Ramallah. Her first play Keffiyeh/Made in China was produced by the Flemish Royal Theatre and A.M. Qattan Foundation and premiered in Brussels. Her play Al'ab Nariya/Fireworks was developed under the Royal Court's International Playwriting residency and was produced there (London) in 2015. Dalia graduated from Brown University with an MFA in Playwriting and has published two collections of poetry and one novel. She recently completed her third play There Is No One Between You and Me. Ather Zia is a political anthropologist, poet and short-fiction writer. She is an assistant professor of anthropology and gender studies at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Ather is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (June 2019) and co-editor of Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (UPenn 2018) and A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins, May 2019). She has published a poetry collection The Frame (1999) and another collection is forthcoming. Ather's ethnographic poetry on Kashmir has won an award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. She is the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and is the co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region. Ather is also the founder/editor of e-zine based on Kashmir titled Kashmir Lit at www.kashmirlit.org. Nadine El-Enany is a Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law (@CentreRaceLaw). Nadine teaches and researches in the fields of migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal justice. Her current research projects, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focus on questions of race and justice in death in custody cases, and the role of law in addressing health inequalities arising from environmental harm. Nadine has written for the Guardian, the LRB Blog, Pluto Blog, Verso Blog, Open Democracy, Media Diversified, Left Foot Forward and Critical Legal Thinking. Her book, (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire (2020) is published by Manchester University Press. The Kashmir-Palestine Conversations Series aims to create space for dialogue, networking and knowledge exchange between scholars of both Kashmir and Palestine. The series is organised by the Kashmir-Palestine Scholars Solidarity Network – an initiative conceived out of a British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Seed Grant awarded to scholars at the Council for British Research in the Levant (Dr Toufic Haddad) and the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) (Dr Emma Brännlund) in early 2020.

In this episode, I chat to the lovely Jendella Benson about her debut novel, Hope & Glory. We had a great chat about her writing, the messiness of family life, love, south London, class, gentrification and growing up with immigrant parents. Jendella is author of the novel Hope & Glory and Head of Editorial at Black Ballad – the award-winning digital platform for Black British women. She is also the host of the podcast Black Ballad Presents: The Survival Guide.She has written for The Sunday Times STYLE Magazine, Metro Online and Independent Voices, as well as previously been a columnist for Media Diversified, MTV UK, and Christian Today.Support the show

In this special extra segment, Nate interviews Sam Asumadu from Media Diversified (@WritersOfColour) about the phenomenon of Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs), a now-banned sentence that has resulted in thousands of British residents effectively receiving life sentences for acts as minor as stealing a mobile phone at age 17. Sam's written an article on the topic for OpenDemocracy, which is available here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/families-plea-over-barbaric-indefinite-prison-sentences-for-minor-crimes/ Check out Media Diversified's Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/mediadiversified *MILO ALERT* Milo has a bunch of live shows this month in both London and Prague. Check them out here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

This week, Nate speaks with Sam Asumadu of Media Diversified (@writersofcolour) about her recent piece on the UK's war in Yemen–that is, the ways in which the UK arms industry's relationship with Saudi Arabia means that arms sales continue no matter what. We also discuss a lot about UK domestic politics and the relationships between reactionary movements in the US and the developing world. Read Sam's piece about Yemen here: https://mediadiversified.org/2022/01/30/britain-is-just-as-culpable-for-the-war-in-yemen-as-saudi-arabia/   For this week's bonus, we go to the southeast border of Europe (sorta): Joe's in Armenia right now and he explains some of the local issues to Francis and Carey, and they also discuss a strange subculture in which Russian men try to cosplay as American rednecks. Get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62257879 *SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT* We now have a storefront to sell the patches, buttons, and magnets that we also give out as flair for our $10 tier. Buy some sweet gear here: https://www.hellofawaytodie.com/shop We have a YouTube channel now -- subscribe here and get sweet videos from us in which we yell in our cars like true veterans: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwlHZpNTz-h6aTeQiJrEDKw You can follow the show on Twitter here: @HellOfAWay Follow Nate here: @inthesedeserts Follow Francis here: @ArmyStrang

Sabeena Akhtar is a writer, editor, programmer… and a Primadonna. She has worked in publishing with the radical non-profit Tilted Axis Press, as a curator for Media Diversified, for whom she created an online library of writers of colour, and is the Festival Coordinator of Bare Lit, the UK's principal festival celebrating remarkable writers in the diaspora.Sabeena co-founded both Primadonna festival in 2019, and Bare Lit Kids, the UK's first children's festival showcasing the work of writers of colour. She has also curated for the Breakthrough Festival, a new festival for working-class writers, and is the lead programmer for the WOW – Women of the World Festivals. She has contributed to the 404 Ink title We Shall Fight Until We Win and the Saqi Books title Smashing It, and is the editor of a remarkable anthology Cut From The Same Cloth.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-world-as-it-should-be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marcus Daniel from Media Diversified gives us an extremely concerning glimpse at the consequences of the Nationality and Borders Bill for millions of British people with migrant backgrounds. In order to understand racism in the modern British state, we inevitably address the disgraceful Windrush Scandal and revisit this year's laughable Sewell Report. To trace how the citizenship-stripping precedent was set we go back to the Theresa May years and arrive at the grim media debacle surrounding Shamima Begum, when many people correctly predicted where this was heading. /// SHOW NOTES /// /// CREDITS /// Hosts: Aarjan /// Ruairi Guest: Marcus Daniel Production: Connor Music: Cardio /// Mac Miller - Colors and Shapes

This episode I speak with Taimour Ahmed who is the founder of Expert By Experience, a volunteer-led multimedia platform dedicated to looking at mental health in South Asian communities from an intersectional and critical lens. As a mental health advocate, he came up as a young writer in online publishing with the company Media Diversified from its inception. Nowadays he can be found either working away at EBE or cooking Pakistani dishes. Taimour and I speak about his experience growing up in Pakistan and moving to the UK, challenges South Asian men experience, as well as men processing anger.To find out more about Taimour visit expertbyexperience.uk. 

In this episode of The End of Sport Johanna is joined by Drs. Christienna D. Fryar and Matt Hodler to break down the white supremacist terrorist actions of swimmer Klete Keller in the January 6th attack against the US Capitol building and the white sport media's apologist portrayal of him. Dr. Fryar is a Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths, University of London where she teaches about British colonial history, Black history, and much more, alongside researching the histories of disaster and sport. Dr. Hodler –a repeat guest on the show! - is an Assistant Professor of Sports Media & Communications at the University of Rhode Island. His research interests include racialized nationalism, gender, and international sport structures, mediated representations of sport, internet memes, and swimming. Both of them are fellow swimmers with Johanna. The impetus for this episode emerged not only due to Klete Keller's horrendous actions, but also due to the sport media and swimming community's largely apologist portrayals of Keller and his actions. Our discussion brings a much-needed critique on Keller that has been mostly absent from the media pieces about him (outside of The Nation's analysis of Keller within the IOC's history of racism). Drs. Fryar and Hodler first help Johanna situate Keller's actions within the sport of swimming, arguing against the popular and comforting idea that his behavior is a deviation from the swimming community's values posited by The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Swimming World in particular. Their discussion articulates why modern swimming has a whiteness problem that historically and currently is centered on the white community, making Keller's actions a product of US swimming, and explicitly not an aberration of it nor of Trump's followers. Importantly, Dr. Fryar explains how – like point that Dr. Kevin Dawson made in our episode with him and that other scholars have shown – white Euro-Americans have consistently made bodies of water a site of intense trauma and pain for Black swimmers, which has led directly to horrendous drowning statistics. Our ensuing discussing shows how US swimming's white supremacy is a real public health concern that Keller contributed to through his white terrorism. We then turn to analyzing the media's white apologist portrayals of Keller, such as why their focus on his mental health issues, homelessness, and his white teammates and coaches' sympathetic responses is a white tactic not actually aimed at highlighting mental health issues; rather, it is an intentional attempt to individualize Keller's actions rather than tackle the core issue of his racism, terrorism, and where it fits within the swimming community. This is clear when we compare how Keller, Ryan Lochte, and Michael Phelps have been treated for their crimes with white gloves compared to Tamir Rice and the countless other Black boys and men who have been murdered by the police for far less and even non-criminal behaviors. Dr. Fryar points to the issue that sports journalists are not trained to analyze racism, classism, and other issues as evidenced by her students' research about how the Hillsborough incident was covered by the sports media. We end the conversation by dissecting the appallingly inadequate – but perhaps not surprising – statements made by USA Swimming and to a lesser extent Team USA. We question the ‘values' that USA Swimming supposedly stands for, and what their silence regarding Keller's white supremacy means for the sport and Black swimmers. Dr. Hodler mentions the Swimmers for Change episode with Lia Neal, Cullen Jones, and Anthony Ervin as being one of the first comprehensive spotlights on the racist discrimination that swimmers of color face in the sport. This conversation is very much a continuation of our Swimming Week series of episodes from September 2020. Check them out if you would like to hear more about the sport's discriminatory foundation, such as its white supremacy with Dr. Kevin Dawson here and Dr. Hodler here! More on Dr. Fryar (including her forthcoming book!), can be found here. You can find her on Twitter too! Check out the 2 pieces she mentioned in the episode, about the economic barriers that she and countless others faced in trying to join a club swim team for The Toast, and also for Media Diversified about why we need to address the racist stereotype that Black people cannot swim in light of Simone Manual's gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. More on Dr. Hodler can be found here, and you can find him on Twitter too! Check out one of his pieces about Phelps. For a transcription of this episode, please click here. (Updated semi-regularly Credit @punkademic) Research Assistance for The End of Sport provided by Abigail Bomba. __________________________________________________________________________ As always, please like, share, and rate us on your favorite podcast app, and give follow us on Twitter or Instagram. @Derekcrim @JohannaMellis @Nkalamb @EndofSportPod www.TheEndofSport.com

*BONUS EPISODE*In Episode 5 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Britain as empire and Britain as nation, with Nadine El-Enany.Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law, she teaches and researches in the fields of migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal justice. Nadine has written for the Guardian, the LRB Blog, Pluto Blog, Verso Blog, Open Democracy, Media Diversified, Left Foot Forward and Critical Legal Thinking. Her book, (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire (2020) was published by Manchester University Press and is the basis of this episode's destruction.Did Britain ever stop being an empire? Has Britain ever been a truly sovereign, bounded nation-state, or does 2021 mark the first year of it trying to be so? If all Britain's wealth, welfare and institutions are embedded in colonial conquest or infused by its profit, who gets to say what Britain is, or who is "outside it"? This episode's discussion comes as a bonus episode to mark the new year. Whilst we break down the binary, Nadine El-Enany also provides us with a hopeful discussion and reminder that the future is yet to be made, and Britain is "up for grabs".To read the transcript of this episode follow this link: https://www.suhaiymah.com/breaking-binaries-transcripts.

Marked as explicit because of strong language.   Still living in a Tier 2 city, Charles Adrian talks about three slim books, all of which feature characters who are children.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can read about The Good Immigrant on Nikesh Shukla’s website here: http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/the-good-immigrant. You can read Darren Chetty on the prevalence of white protagonists in Media Diversified here: https://mediadiversified.org/2013/12/07/you-cant-do-that-stories-have-to-be-about-white-people/ and you can download Beyond The Secret Garden by Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor here: https://www.academia.edu/37977267/Beyond_the_Secret_Garden_Black_Asian_and_Minority_Ethnic_Representations_in_Childrens_Literature   If you, like Charles Adrian, are confused about comic book terminology, there is an article about Trade paperbacks on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_paperback_(comics) If you are near Angoulême in France, meanwhile, and interested in comics and graphic novels, the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image is well worth a visit: http://www.citebd.org/   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 115 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/115-antosh-wojcik/), Page One 116 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/116-joseph-paterson/) and Page One 117 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/117-iskandar-sharazuddin/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 29th October, 2020.     Book listing:   Beside The Sea by Véronique Olmi (trans. Adriana Hunter) (Page One 115) Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman (Page One 116) Saga (Volume One) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Page One 117)

In this episode of #smalltalkpodcast, we talk to Dr Azeezat Johnson about what it means to exist and resist, what whiteness is as a structure and how Islamophobia and anti-blackness are inextricably linked. What is the effect of structural violence on everyday lives and how can we make a change in big and small ways? - - If you enjoyed this episode and want to support our production visit amaliah.com/support - An Amaliah Podcast Music by @iamryanlittle - Soundcloud, Apple Music and Spotify CHECK THESE OUT: Recent works by Azeezat: Johnson, Azeezat (2019). 'Throwing our bodies against the white background of academia.' Area. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12568 Johnson, Azeezat & Fernandez, Shereen (2019). 'Where does Shamima Begum exist?' Ceasefire Magazine. Johnson, Azeezat, Joseph-Salisbury, Remi & Kamunge, Beth (eds.) (2018). The Fire Now: anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence, London: Zed Books. Johnson, Azeezat (2018). 'Introducing The Fire Now'. Media Diversified. Azeezat Recommends: El-Enany, Nadine (2019). 'Britain as the spoils of empire'. Manchester University Press. Emejulu, Akwugo & Sobande, Francesca (eds.) (2019). To Exist Is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe, London: Pluto Press. Manzoor-Khan, Suhaiymah (2019). Postcolonial Banter, Birmingham: Verve Poetry Press.

Back at it with a bonus episode to spoil you after such a long hiatus. We are talking about what it means to be a Muslim writer.We discuss:- The launch of the Critical Muslim issue 30: West Africa on May 15th at LSE. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-of-cm30-west-africa-at-lse-tickets-61150405509-What is a Muslim writer ?- Anti-blackness and perceptions of Muslim writers- West Africa's rich cultural historical links to the Islamic world Books mentioned:- Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela- So long a letter and Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ.- Born on A Tuesday by El Nathan John -Seasons of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim -Black Docker by Sembene Ousmane -Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih-The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih -Too Black to Be Arab, Too Arab to be Black’ by Leena Habiballa publishes in ‘From the Lines of Dissent’ published by Media Diversified.-Zaynab Alkali Continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #NotAnotherBook

Media Diversified was established in 2013 to help change the conversation in the media and foreground the voices of writers of colour. Media Diversified is a powerhouse: two books, Bare Lit Festival, the Jhalak Prize and a newly appointed editor-in-chief, Marcus Daniel. Marcus joins me in conversation today to discuss combating the overwhelming negativity of the British media, creating space to amplify Black voices and reclaiming our time from racism. We also touch upon his view of what it does and doesn’t mean to be mixed race, the formative impact of queer Black social groups and what he hopes to achieve at the helm of one of the most important media platforms in the world. ——Marcus Daniel is the editor-in-chief of Media Diversified — a non-profit organisation working to enrich, engage and improve the UK's media landscape. The organisation was founded in 2013 with a mission to challenge the homogeneity of voices in UK media, through addressing the under-representation of minority communities. You can support Media Diversified's editorial independence through their Patreon.Media Diversified on PatreonThe People of Colour Who Voted Leave——@_busybeingblack is the podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives. Supporting this podcast doesn't cost any money; your feedback, ratings, reviews and shares all help, so please keep the support coming #busybeingblackFor those who feel compelled and have the means, you can support this podcast financially: PayPal.me/busybeingblack——Thank you to our partners:UK Black PrideBlackOut UK

Sam iinterview actor Stephan James on Barry Jenkins' radical empathy, James Baldwin, black love stories and British slang! Sam and Ava will be back in a new studio and with fantastic new guests in April! IF BEALE STREET COULD is out in UK cinemas on 8th Feb 'Like James Baldwin’s Best Work, If Beale Street Could Talk Contains Multitudes Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to Moonlight, starring KiKi Layne and Stephan James as a pair of lovers torn asunder, is a triumph.' 'Barry Jenkins makes movies about black love. His 2008 debut, Medicine for Melancholy, chronicled a one-night stand turned burgeoning romance in a maddeningly gentrifying San Francisco. Moonlight, his wonderful follow-up and 2016 best-picture winner, is a coming-of-age story about a fatherless queer boy set among the impoverished Miami neighborhoods that were once home to Jenkins himself. Its endgame isn’t sex, or even necessarily sexuality, but something even more rare in movies: pure, loving intimacy between black men, sexual and not. Now comes If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins’s extraordinary adaptation of James Baldwin’s soulful 1974 novel. It’s a lush, courageous black melodrama set in 1970s New York, a story about love defying injustice—or trying its damndest to. Tish (newcomer KiKi Layne), 19, and Fonny (Stephan James), 22, were once childhood playmates—chubby, laughing babes taking baths together, being raised alongside one another, despite yawning differences between their families’ social and religious beliefs. Fonny’s mother is extremely devout, as are his sisters. Tish and her sister, Ernestine (Teyonah Parris), are more modern: well-raised, hard-working women who nevertheless curse in front of their parents.' Vanity Fair SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison. Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management

'Shareefa Energy is a London-based spoken word poet and rapper. Her lyrics encapsulate brown girl power. She brings together poetry and hip-hop in such an articulate manner, that you can’t help but get mesmerized by her work. She’s pop culture meets romanticism, desi meets angrezi, art meets power. Not only does she bring her presence to a stage, but she expresses important issues involved with being brown, and living abroad.' Maheen Humayun , The Tempest, SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison. Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management

Marc Thompson, strategic lead health improvement at the Terrence Higgins Trust, co-founder of Team Prepster and co-editor of Black Out UK joins Sam and Ava for an interview about sexual health, HIV and stigma in black communities. VIDEO Terrence Higgins Trust: https://www.youtube.com/user/THTCommunity MUSIC Little Simz - Offence Jay Z - Lucifer Inspiration Information SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it's people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison. Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management

Editor in Chief of Media Diversified joins Sam and Ava for an episode dedicated to the legend, Whitney Houston! Tracks WHITNEY HOUSTON I Will Always Love You - it's Not Right But It's OK One Moment In Time My Name is Not Susan Saving All My Love Poison - Bel Biv Devoe Correct - MNEK Roni - Bobby Brown

This week's guess is investigative journalist Mark Watts! Topics covered by Ava, Sam and Mark include:The freedom of information act which Tony Blair said was his "biggest mistake", Britain's culture of secrecy and the Official Secrets Act + billionaire registered sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein and the difference between FOI in UK and USA. Our usual #HereandFabulous and #GetintheBin segment features too! Mark Watts is a journalist who has worked for a range of national newspapers and broadcasters and is the co-ordinator of the FOIA [pronounced similar to “foyer”] Centre, a specialist research company: www.foiacentre.com. The FOIA Centre uses open-access laws, including the Freedom of Information Act and Data Protection Act, to help unearth stories for the media and uncover evidence for campaigners or legal cases. Mark was the editor of Exaro, the investigative website, for five years. Exaro closed in 2016 because of financial problems in the group that owned it. The website exposed how senior civil servants were working off-payroll to enable them to avoid tax, sparking a huge Whitehall review and a ban on the practice. Exaro revealed a secret recording in which Rupert Murdoch admitted knowing about bribery at his newspapers for decades, a story that made waves around the world. And Exaro led the way in uncovering evidence of sexual abuse by politicians and other establishment figures, forcing the government to order the overarching inquiry into child sexual abuse. Mark has previously worked for The Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Express as well as World in Action, where he helped to expose Jonathan Aitken, the former defence procurement minister, and has written for just about every national title. Twitter handle: @MarkWatts_1 MUSIC Little Simz - Offence Linda Lewis - Sideway Shuffle Jay Z - Lucifer Inspiration Information Fela Kuti - Confusion SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it's people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison. Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management

As the Government has shrunk, pared back year after year in the name of austerity, civil society and the voluntary sector has been forced to step in and do more of the societal heavy lifting. With so many vital services planned and carried out by civil society, the make-up of the bodies that run these institutions continues to cause concern. Read more here: Featuring: Maurice is director of Media Diversified, Vice Chair of Race on the Agenda and is a social commentator writing regularly for the Guardian and other titles. Imran Sanaula is the CEO of the Patchwork Foundation. Civil Society Futures in collaboration with Media Diversified

Welcome to Brown About Town... In Brown About Town the Ladies talk about their experience of the Trump Protest. Stacey talks about Museum of Comedy and a show by Tom Stade and the Print Tearing It up Exhibit at Somerset House. Stacey and Jay talk about their love for The Incredibles 2. We’re giving a Shout out to Drag Karaoke and Media Diversified. In Snap, Crackle and Pop culture we chat about the Thai cave rescue mission going Hollywood. Got questions, comments, and/or stories you want to share? Send them to us at: brownabouttown.ldn@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/brownabouttown.ldn IG: www.instagram.com/brownabouttown.ldn Twitter: www.twitter.com/brownabouttown_

Matthew Sweet discusses talking, speech and having a voice, with Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford; Rebecca Roache, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London; actress and impressionist Jessica Martin; and Maurice McLeod, social commentator, director of Media Diversified, and Labour councillor for Queenstown Battersea. Trevor Cox has written Now You're Talking: The Story of Human Conversation from Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence. Producer: Luke Mulhall

The focus of this episode is Ernest Dickerson's still underrated 1992 drama Juice, featuring a young (pre-fame/pre-legendary) Tupac Shakur. The live portion of the show was recorded a little while back at Falmouth University's School of Film & Television but is being released now due to the episode not being based around release schedules, as the previous Claire Denis episode was. The timing though is fortuitous, with Childish Gambino's This is America song and music video being released earlier this week and bringing to the fore again questions around black identity, gun violence and black male bodies.  In the episode Neil and Dario discuss the term 'black cinema', the evolution and status of black filmmaking in American and British cinema and how complex such a discussion is from an acknowledged white standpoint.  The episode also features a clip of Dario's deep discussion about film criticism and contemporary film culture with friend of the podcast Simran Hans, which can be found in full over on our Patreon site for subscribers, as well as Neil's chat with film critic and podcaster Leslie Byron Pitt about representation in filmmaking and film criticism alongside as Basic Instinct and erotic thrillers as Leslie is one quarter of the excellent Fatal Attractions podcast.  Links: Ernest Dickerson on The Treatment podcast Angelica Bastien on Odds Against Tomorrow, a brilliant film noir about racism Wakanda Forever: Black Panther and the power of representation, by Leslie Byron Pitt (for Media Diversified)

Paul Beatty, winner of 2016's Man Booker Prize, will be in conversation with Lola Okolosie, Guardian journalist and editor-at-large of Media Diversified. The Sellout (Oneworld) was the first novel by a US author to win the Booker; Beatty's other novels, being released in new paperback editions, are The White Boy Shuffle, Tuff and Slumberland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The former Health Minister, now broadcaster and writer, Edwina Currie; the journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer; and the English teacher and columnist Lola Okolosie discuss the different times of our lives with Free Thinking presenter Anne McElvoy.Recent scientific research has found that women have the time of their lives at the age of 34. Later though, as they juggle parenthood and work they are at their most stressed. But, by the age of 58 they start to get their life-work balance sorted out. With more time to relax and no babies on the horizon life looks better. And, with an average life expectancy of 82.9 years, perhaps women may have time to enjoy their new lives.Edwina Currie was a Conservative MP for 14 years before retiring in 1988. Since then she has presented TV and radio programmes, appeared on Strictly Come Dancing and as the Wicked Queen in pantomime. She has been described as ‘a brash and energetic life force'. Her books include Diaries 1987-1992 and novels including The Ambassador, Chasing Men, This Honourable House, and A Parliamentary Affair.Miranda Sawyer began her career writing for Smash Hits and now writes for newspapers and magazines including The Observer. She has interviewed arts figures for BBC Two's Culture Show, and presented programmes on 6 Music, BBC Radio 4 and podcasts. Her new book Out of Time explores her midlife crisis.Lola Okolosie is an English teacher and regular columnist for The Guardian on race, politics, education and feminism. She is editor-at-large for Media Diversified, an online publishing platform.Recorded as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.Producer: Craig Smith

Picking up on some of the themes of this week's episode of The Family Tree, Dave speaks to founder of Media Diversified, Samantha Asamadu; Nikesh Shukla, editor of the brilliant state-of-the-nation essay collection, The Good Immigrant and poet and journalist, Musa Okwonga about issues around representation and lived experience in fiction, drama and the media. The Family Tree's Cuttings discuss the real issues raised in the show with special guests from podcasting, journalism and the arts. They are also a space to showcase listener theories about the mystery. If you have a theory about what happened to Mark, you can call 0203 290 0592. Please be aware that your message may be played on the show. Find our Guests! Samantha Asamadu: Media Diversified, The Feminist Filmmaker, twitter Nikesh Shukla: The Good Immigrant , twitter Musa Okwonga: twitter

The Family Tree, a new audio drama from Adamthwaite and Pickering, launches on Monday 26 th September 2016. The show will air for 12 weeks, releasing an episode of the drama every Monday and an accompanying commentary episode each Friday. The show is a spin-off from in-conversation podcast, Getting Better Acquainted, featured on BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust and BBC Radio 5 Live's Required Listening. Focussed on openness, honesty and truth, the same conversational style is used to explore the story in The Family Tree. The Family Tree is a magical realist drama about family, belonging, change and identity. The 12 supplementary episodes or ‘Cuttings' feature a range of guests from podcasting, journalism and the arts, discussing the issues raised in the show, including themes such as representation, lived experience, identity and social responsibility. This teaser showcases some of the conversations around representation as Dave talks to Nikesh Shukla, Samantha Asamadu from Media Diversified, Jackie Hagan, CN Lester and Sez Thomasin.

Episode 24 – Tiernan chats with Maurice Mcleod (@mowords) from Media Diversified, exclusive excerpts from the Chilcot report audio book and a glimpse at the future under the regime of Prime Minister May.Follow us on Twitter @parpolbro, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/parpolbro and our webpage at http://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We talked with The Auracle, aka Bae Grylls, aka Joseph about many things. He's a Renaissance man of sorts, and we spoke about activism, masculinity, sports, Star Wars, graphic novels, and more of our typical nerdy stylings. He's our first guest from the other side of the pond, and we got into a lot! Explicit language warning, but it was a good time.

Ahmed Sule, photojournalist and social critic and Contributor for Media Diversified - a London based NGO concerned with diversifying media landscape spoke to Elvis Presslin on the media coverage of Maria Sharapova who tested positive for using the banned meldonium drug during the 2016 Australian Open...