October 8th, 2021

BUSINESS • Tanaka Soaps Since launching in October 2019, TANAKA is currently stocked in some of the best independent stores in the UK and America. They also have an online store. https://tanaka.store/

• Our Lovely Goods Is a family run business, based in Aberdeen Scotland. They stock a range of homewares & skincare. It has been featured in a number of publications

including How to Spend It, Elle Decoration and House Beautiful. They have an online store

https://ourlovelygoods.com/pages/contact

• Windrush Bay is a new online Caribbean Grocery store https://www.windrushbay.com/

• Porte Noir is the new wine bar soon to open in the Kings Cross region owned by Idris Elba and his business partner David Farber https://www.portenoire.co.uk/bar-at-kings-cross/`

FILMS • Really Love (NETFLIX)- A rising Black panther tries to break into a competitive art world, while balancing an unexpected relationship with an ambitious law student

• Night in Miami (Amazon Prime) - A fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcom X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown meet to discuss civil rights and life in the 60's

EVENTS • Honour, Remember, Inspire at the Zari Gallery, 73 Newman Street, London W1T 3EJ https://zarigallery.co.uk

James Barnor Retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery through October 24th. It covers the career of British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/james-barnor/

Is God Is Alesha Harris' award winning play collides the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the spaghetti western, hip hop and afro-punk

https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/isgodis/

BOOKS

• Through the Leopard's Gaze by Njambi McGrath from the award winning comedian chronicling her life from Kenya to the UK

• Girl Baking (US) by Jerrelle Guy wholesome recipes inspired by a soulful upbringing PODCASTS • Cooking up Consciousness from Chef Zoe Adjonyoh of Zoe's Kitchen https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cooking-up-consciousness-podcast/id1559219638 • Dane Baptiste Questions Everything https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dane-baptiste-questions-everything/id630022425

RADIO • Have you Heard George's Podcast - George the poet offers his fresh take on inner city life https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07915kd/episodes/downloads

WHAT AM I PAYING ATTENTION TO? • How I made it? A podcast by Jasmine Browley on how black entrepreneurs and creatives made it? https://www.made-magazine.com/how-i-made-it-podcast/

Bitstock a black led company developing new technology in the cryptocurrency space

https://www.bitstocks.com/about-bitstocks

Music: Sometimes I might be an introvert by Little Simz - I was at the FT weekend festival last month and acclaimed classical composer Max Richter described this as an amazing, multi-layered work!

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sometimes+i+might+be+introvert&crid=3PN98X1BJYQJF&sprefix=Sometimes+I+might+%2Caps%2C250&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_18

PEOPLE IN EDUCATION • Public portrait exhibition honouring Britain's Black women professors arrives in Cambridge

https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/public-portrait-exhibition-honouring-britains-black-women-professors-arrives-in-cambridge