International Woman’s Day – The legacy of Henrietta Lacks

This International Woman’s Day – The legacy of Henrietta Lacks with the amazing Bristol artist Helen Wilson-Roe who has been studying Henrietta and the Lacks family for over 20 years for her ‘A Brush with Immortality’ exhibition, Cllr Cleo Lake, Dr Maninder Ahluwalia, Rider Shafique. Rider is a lyricist, poet and Dr Caroline McKinnon is the Student Careers and Outreach Director in the School of Biochemistry at Bristol.

Hosted by the University of Bristol Be More Empowered for Success with support from School of Biochemistry and the Inclusive Research Collective

Meeting: 5pm Monday 8th March 2021

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Miranda Rae chatting to Tammy Payne

Really looking forward to chatting to Tammy Payne
on this weeks The Word on Ujima Radio 98fm.
We have a good ole chinwag about the music biz over the last 30 years. Tammy has had an incredible career and worked with such an amazing long list of incredible musicians including Adrian Utley, Smith N Mighty, Jim Bar from Portishead just to name a few, she was signed to the brilliant Talking Loud record label and released tracks with Warner Bros.
Tammy Payne
We reminisce about good ole Tristan B who has helped so many of us with our careers, including managing Tammy, we remember the days of the Ashton Court Festival and compare notes of our most memorable experiences, (naked Moonflowers is all I am gonna giveaway at this point, if you know you know). I ask if she has issues with the old boys network and generally chew the fat. Tammy is currently working with a wicked new band called The Super Models and just last week she re-released an album that was previously only released in Japan 20 years ago with a band called Sissi, loads of great names on the album and made in collaboration with Jim Barr from Portishead and now released by the awesome Bristol Archive Records. So come and join us as we journey through the sounds of Tammy Payne from back in the day to her latest sounds.
That’s on The Word this Friday 4-6pm on

Ujima Radio 98fm

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RIP Bunny Wailer

RIP Bunny Wailer, born Neville Livingston — before adopting his famous moniker, he was also known as Bunny Livingston — was a member of the original Wailers trio with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.Born April 10th, 1947, in the Nine Mile district of Jamaica’s St. Ann Parish, Livingston was a friend of Marley from a young age; following the death of Marley’s father, Norval, in 1955, Marley’s mother, Cedella, lived with Livingston’s father, Thaddeus, in Trench Town, making Bunny and Bob near-stepbrothers.

Read the BBC report here: httpsl.facebook.coml.phpu=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fentertainment-arts-56256885%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3HN_5dtANSTR4l7Nl2CXR1QcTRln4NHMD8f1UaDwQKVuL3lWeHzcxmnR8&h=AT12ccXlxSObB34XuzUgK5ffPuHyDJZsGGeJGSSeC3AsyHEIvK3BwLVmP6bvh3K3HgfaFxY9qt_xLzhZPYOdVS0s7LR-18xrKQatIZLSBdbRqZ-M82najFF0RX6OSC5k&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT1lqC3uWHVZr5mpOHze1K0mWVz5iB6UAB5u-nBiyr40O0reZUhCjt84LpqUWqOf44zDNdRBmhh88nFU0-jIgoFXRa7xlnR_mRJlUNDezosQ9v893gttJL69ZUdm2o_Ga3xi_1fPEQ37Vi_KBUZVi_CyCybY3ezugzR_UzJ6cWrndJQ

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Claudette Colvin

On this day history…
On 2nd March 1955 Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks.
Colvin’s unplanned act of bravery was almost written out of civil-rights history. The Montgomery bus boycott began nine months after her arrest, spurred by the arrest of Rosa Parks in an almost identical incident, so the story went:
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