Voice Newspaper

02/10/2025

✨ Out Today! ✨

The October Issue of The Voice Newspaper 📰

In our Black History Month edition we focus on Black Futures Matter - highlighting milestones being achieved today that will shape the future.

Features include:

▶ Captain Ibrahim Traoré — a new symbol of Pan-African leadership and resistance against neo-colonialism.

▶ Why Black History Month Matters — voices from across the community share their heroes & reflections

▶ A newly formed UK Association of Black Judges (UKAB) aims to challenge structural barriers and mentor the next generation

▶ Tech founders Oliver & Alexander Kent-Braham are changing the game with the insurtech company Marshmallow, now valued over $1 Billion

▶ Columnist Dr. Julie Hammond names inspiring modern-day leaders transforming UK healthcare

▶ From the Midlands, Victoria Gabriel is breaking barriers and building futures for the next generation at Jaguar Land Rover

▶ In Lifestyle: Curator Osei Bonsu has masterminded the UK’s first exhibition dedicated to Nigerian modernism

▶ In Sport: Eboni Usoro-Brown is the president of Netball England - a Black woman leading a UK sporting body is a major milestone.

… and much more inside...✨✨

📰 Buy your copy online now or subscribe — links in bio.

01/10/2025

✨ Black History Month 2025 ✨🖤💚💛❤️

For us, Black History Month has always been a vital time to reflect, remember, and celebrate.

It reminds us of the resilience of so many past figures whose courage changed the course of history.

But for a new generation of Black Britons, it is also something more:

➡️ A chance to reshape the story and ensure Black history is not only about the past, but also about the present and future.

Black History Month must remain a time of remembrance.

But it should also be a time of recognition—that the history we make today will shape the world our children inherit.

Today, Black futures matter and so we must:

🌟 Celebrate today’s milestones
🌟 Commit to building a future where the next generation can thrive

Happy Black History Month 2025🖤💚💛❤️

29/09/2025

Antigua and Barbuda’s leader says small Caribbean nations suffering from climate inaction

Prime Minister Gaston Browne warns rich countries their delay is costing lives in small island states

Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister is sounding the alarm on climate change and how it will impact small island developing states (SIDS)

29/09/2025

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Sunday 19 October | 🕑 2pm – 3pm | 📍 Frobisher Auditorium 2, Level 4

The Windrush story doesn’t end with the first generation. Hosted by The Voice, writers Kuba Shand-Baptiste and Yvonne Bailey-Smith share voices, memories and experiences of the second and third generations.

From family histories and community life to how Caribbean heritage continues to shape British identity today — this session celebrates the strength of community and the power of passing stories forward. https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/black-british-book-festival-2025?previewToken=TvURRrHNQgf6tIz2h1Z8LHmfWBQ0k405_Z6fmywHXUA

29/09/2025

Books hosts annual ‘Community Day’ in Brixton

THIS WEEK, more than 90 students from three Brixton schools came together at Brixton House for the second annual Books x HSBC UK Futures Community Day.

24/09/2025

🇹🇹 HISTORIC CITIZENSHIP REFORM IN TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 🇹🇹

Last week, after hours of debate, the Senate passed the Constitution (Amendment) (Citizenship) Bill, 2025 — a groundbreaking change to the country’s citizenship laws.

✅ What’s new?
• People can now apply for citizenship by descent through their grandparents.
• The restriction that citizenship could only pass through a parent who was not themselves a citizen by descent has been removed.

📜 Previously: Only children of citizens born abroad (second-generation) could claim citizenship by descent. Now, third-generation descendants — those with a Trinidadian grandparent — are included.

This marks a major shift in how the nation defines identity, heritage, and belonging. 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

Read full update online.

24/09/2025

✨ The Motherhood Group - a leading support group for Black mothers - has launched the UK’s first-ever report dedicated solely to Black Maternal Mental Health. 🖤

📅 To mark Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK (22–28 Sept 2025), The Motherhood Group has unveiled the Black Maternal Mental Health Report — drawing on insights from 73 projects and the voices of 18,000+ Black mothers.

The findings are powerful — and painful:

⚠️ Black mothers are over 2x more likely to be hospitalised with perinatal mental illness.
⚠️ Many avoid seeking help due to stigma and fear of social services.
⚠️ Racism, stereotyping & microaggressions in NHS maternity care fuel depression, trauma & anxiety.
⚠️ Mothers say they feel “unheard”, “dismissed”, “judged” — leading to distrust in healthcare.
⚠️ With few culturally safe spaces, many turn instead to community, faith & grassroots support.

This landmark report exposes how systemic racism, stigma, and cultural barriers are driving a maternal mental health crisis — and calls for urgent change.

Read full update online.

🖤

23/09/2025

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23/09/2025

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The United Kingdom is preparing to etch a historic milestone into its cultural legacy this October with the launch of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame United Kingdom—the nation’s first institution dedicated to celebrating the legends, pioneers, and enduring impact of gospel music.

The official launch will take place during Black History Month at the International Music Summit (The Summit), a premier global gathering for artists, producers, creatives, and industry leaders, held October 2–4, 2025, at the Hilton London Heathrow Hotel.

22/09/2025

A powerful new story about a London schoolgirl’s journey of living with sickle cell has been brought to life in My Blood, Your Blood — a children’s book commissioned by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT).

Inspired by the real-life experiences of 10-year-old Angel Salami from Sydenham, the book will be gifted to all Brixton primary schools this September during Sickle Cell Awareness Month 2025.

Angel says:
💬 “I feel really good that the book is based on me, as people can learn what it is like to live with sickle cell and maybe be inspired by me. I hope the book makes more people want to give blood donations and learn more about sickle cell from a young age.”

🩸 This book is more than a story — it’s a step towards recognition, awareness, and inspiring future generations to support those living with sickle cell.

Read full update online.

22/09/2025

Botswana’s sprint sensation Letsile Tebogo is proving that athletics is more than medals — it’s about inspiring the next generation.

Fresh from winning Olympic 200m gold and helping Botswana clinch their first-ever World Championship 4x400m relay title 🥇, Tebogo visited an Elementary School in Tokyo to get kids moving with a Kids’ Athletics activation.

🌍 Earlier this year, Tebogo was named an ambassador for the World Athletics Kids’ Athletics programme.

22/09/2025

Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce - the most decorated female 100m sprinter in history leaves the sport. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🖤💛💚🐐🐐

There was a silver lining as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bowed out from athletics.

Eighteen years after bursting onto the world stage, Fraser-Pryce signed off with yet another global medal- her 25th global medal and it’ll be her last

Yesterday, in Tokyo on the final day of action at the 2025 World Championships, the five-time 100m champion helped Jamaica secure silver in the women’s 4x100m relay.

“Today’s medal is the icing on the cake,” she said. “My son will be excited. This is a full circle moment – I started my journey in Japan in 2007 as a reserve. I couldn’t have written it better.”

Silver for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce confirmed her status as one of the greats of her sport.

Fraser-Pryce made the podium in 14 of the last 15 major championships – the only exception being in London in 2017, when she gave birth to her son on the day after the 100m final.

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Thank you Shelly!! We will miss you! 🐐 🇯🇲🖤💛💚