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A 23-Year-Old Clara Bale Named After Death in Islington Flat
A murder investigation was launched after police were called at around 9:33am on Thursday, August 6, following concerns for the welfare of a woman inside an address on Bollinder Place, Islington.
Officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service and found Clara unresponsive. Despite the efforts of medical professionals, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Metropolitan Police have now confirmed her identity and said her family are being supported by specially trained officers.
Six People Arrested
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By: Euen Herbert-Small
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A devastating open letter accuses Professor Deborah Prentice and Cambridge’s senior leadership of ignoring repeated safeguarding warnings and says their actions and inaction contributed to Professor Jason Arday’s death.
Cambridge University is facing an extraordinary revolt from within after more than 65 students, staff and alumni demanded the immediate resignation of Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice over the institution’s treatment of Professor Jason Arday.
The open letter, hosted by the Good Law Project and addressed to Cambridge Chancellor Lord Chris Smith, accuses the university’s......
By: Euen Herbert-Small
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We Cannot Keep Begging Their Media to Value Us While Refusing to Support Our Own
Black Britain already has independent journalists and community-owned platforms doing the work. The question is whether we will sustain them before the next crisis arrives.
After the vigil for Professor Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square, I saw people questioning why the BBC had devoted so little attention to an event that brought tens of thousands into central London.
MPs Diane Abbott, Dawn Butler and Bell Ribeiro-Addy were among those who addressed the crowd, alongside Lord Simon Woolley, the Good Law Project’s Jo Maugham and anti-racism......
More than 50,000 signatures call for public inquiry into death of Professor Jason Arday
More than 50,000 people have backed a call for a public inquiry into the death of Professor Jason Arday in little more than 24 hours, as pressure continues to grow over the media treatment he faced in the weeks before his death.
The letter, organised by the Good Law Project, is addressed to the Prime Minister and Culture Secretary and calls for an immediate public inquiry into press conduct following the death of the 41-year-old former Cambridge professor.
Professor Arday was found dead at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday, August 14, just over a week after resigning from......
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Fundraiser for Professor Jason Arday Surges Past £100,000 as Calls Grow for Media Inquiry
The public fundraiser launched in memory of Professor Jason Atta Kwei Arday has surged past £100,000, reflecting an extraordinary wave of support from across the UK and internationally. The appeal, organised by Sir Patrick Vernon OBE, was created to support funeral, memorial and family costs following Arday’s death earlier this month.
Arday, 41, was widely recognised as one of Britain’s most influential Black academics, celebrated for his work on race, education, inequality and......
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Jason Arday Said He Felt ‘Hounded to Death’ Days Before He Died as Cambridge College Head Demands Media Inquiry
Lord Simon Woolley has called for an investigation into what he described as a “vicious media onslaught” against Professor Jason Arday, revealing that the Cambridge academic told friends just days before his death that he felt “hounded to death” and could see no way out.
Pressure is growing for an investigation into the media treatment of Professor Jason Arday after the head of a Cambridge college accused sections of the press of subjecting him......
Image: Jason Arday speaking to Krishnan Guru-Murthy for Channel 4 News. Credit: Channel 4 News / video still.
By: Euen Herbert-Small
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A vulnerable, neurodivergent Black academic was subjected to an extraordinary public hounding, and the human cost of that campaign cannot simply be brushed aside.
Professor Jason Arday is dead at just 41. Only days before his death, he said that relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary had taken a “profound toll” on him.
JamRadio extends its deepest condolences to Jason Arday’s family, friends, colleagues, students and all who loved him. Arday was found unresponsive at an address......
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A white British woman walks into a drill session and starts spitting dancehall lyrics like she has something to prove. Within seconds, the room changes. Now reactions from Vybz Kartel, Kwame McKenzie and 1MelloVibes are turning Tasha into one of the most unexpected viral newcomers in dancehall.
Natasha Richardson, better known as Lovefromtashaxo, or simply Tasha — begins dropping bars in this viral video, and that's when the joke stops. She doesn't cautiously feel her way around the riddim or throw in a few Jamaican phrases for effect. She goes straight at it with rapid delivery, patois, attitude......
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“We Will Fight for Reparations — But We Will Not Wait”: Dr Umar Johnson Calls for Global Black Organisation in Brixton
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The Pan-African speaker used his keynote address at Brixton’s Afrikan Reparations Day rally to urge African-descended communities to organise across borders, finance their own institutions and pursue liberation without waiting for governments to deliver justice.
“We will fight for reparations — but we will not wait.”
It was the declaration that defined Dr Umar Johnson’s keynote address in Brixton: reparations must......
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Britain’s first Black woman MP has had the Labour whip restored following a second suspension. Her return closes another turbulent chapter in her relationship with the party, while restoring one of Parliament’s most persistent voices for victims of the Home Office Windrush scandal.
Diane Abbott has been formally readmitted to the Labour Party and has had the Labour whip restored in the House of Commons, ending more than a year in which the veteran Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP sat as an independent.
Labour said the decision followed a disciplinary process conducted under party rules and approved by......
