If you love music, inspiration, positivity and good energy …
You won’t want to miss the The Hope Gala Ball – The Masquerade Edition, along with “FORGOTTEN BLACK WOMEN HEROES” past and present. Bringing the community together, celebrating the ’75’ Platinum years of Windrush. It’s a Black tie dinner and dance
Fundraising for survivors of domestic abuse to empower them to take their power back and reclaim their lives!
Every ticket you buy helps & supports this cause!!
The funds from the ball, as mentioned above will go to help survivors of domestic abuse, this is all. done via GEM – The Global Empowerment Movement. GEM is a not for profit organisation that helps and supports women and girls to find practical solutions to overcome emotional challenges and provides life skills and tools to increase confidence and self-esteem, therefore allowing them to rebuild their lives and have a sense of wellbeing.
I was trying to think how to start the celebration of black history month on my socials, what I could say to explain why it’s needed and why this year it’s all about celebrating and saluting our sisters.
I decided that I’d let someone else explain it… Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE.
Here is the link to the article that she has written.
This is painstakingly tragic this has got me so chocked up
15yrs of age
Truly heartbreaking! 
Condolences to the family, her friends and the community
Rest in power Eliyanna
I’ll share more around this and cases like it when I’m feeling more up to it, I’m still struggling to understand why this beautiful young lady was taken so soon and so horrifically.
The first woman of the Windrush Generation we are celebrating today is…
Stephanie Boyce.
Stephanies parents arrived in the UK as teenagers, she was however raised in a single parent home on an Aylesbury council estate.
She gained a law degree from London Guildhall University in 1999 and became a solicitor in 2002.
In March 2021 she became the first person of colour and only the sixth female president of the Law Society of England and Wales.
She’s received various awards and signs of recognition – in 2020 she was voted onto the Governance Hot 100 List, in 2021 she made the Power List 100 Most Influential Black People in the UK. In 2022 she received the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for her leadership of the legal profession during the COVID-19 pandemic and for services to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Stephanie is an amazing example of pushing boundaries and achieving great success, while still remembering where you have come from.
A lot of the ladies that I work with feel that they can’t achieve and can’t succeed because of the trauma they have been through and also because it is still harder for a black woman to succeed in the UK, but not impossible with the right support around them.
Join us at The Hope Gala Ball, where you will help & support you will be putting money into GEM (Global Empowerment Movement) to continue to empower women & girls into leadership.
16th April 2020 – the world was locked down, in the early hours of the morning the police were called to speak to Denise about the revenge porn her estranged husband had posted. The officers took their notes and left at 1:30 – if only they’d done a quick search of the garden!
An hour later Denise had been doused in petrol and set on fire, she was rushed to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Her estranged husband admitted in court to being controlling and jealous, he maintained that he hadn’t meant to kill her, even though a voice note he’d left her the evening before said “I really hope you suffer and die.”
His internet searched showed that he’d been searching for what is the best way to use a knife and kill someone, along with insanity in English law and cases where the insanity defence worked!
What frustrates me so much about this is it could all have been prevented if a police officer had done her job properly.
Denise first reported her ex in January 2020 for domestic abuse.
The officer involved cancelled interviews with Denise’s ex three times – she never spoke to him at all and then closed the case on April 6th, just 10 days before he took Denises life.
The officer involved in this case has lost her job, in the words of the IOPC for a shocking dereliction of duty. This officer failed Denise and Denises family, this happens way too often, she should have done more and taken Denises allegations seriously. She should have followed the reasonable lines of enquiry which her supervisor had set then maybe Denise would still be here today.
There is a perception that black women are strong and don’t need as much support, this is so WRONG.
We need the same amount of support as white women. We need to be seen and heard from a humanity stand point!
From my own experiences of dealing with the police for a personal matter if I was upset and emotional I had mental health issues, if I was calm and dealing with it I didn’t need support, I was damned either way.
My career has come full circle after leaving the DA, I’m working with a charity in London empowering woman & girls who are victims & survivors of domestic abuse to live better lives, in safety and learn to go from being a victim, to a survivor and find their true voice.
WINDRUSH WEDNESDAY
after leaving the DA, I’m working with a charity in London empowering woman & girls who are victims & survivors of domestic abuse to live better lives, in safety and learn to go from being a victim, to a survivor and find their true voice.