Unveiling the Truth About Social Cause Leadership!
We’re quickly coming to the end of 2021, and I wonder if I’m speaking for everyone when I say that this year has been… a strange one. With life slowly resuming back to normal, time seems to have sped up.
Here we go again. Black History Month has only just ended, and we have been served a major blow this week with the despicable actions of police officers Jeffer and Lewis. It’s hard to forget the brutal murders of sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman in a park in north-west London on the 7th June last year. It is quite frankly disgusting to imagine that Metropolitan police officers pleaded guilty on Tuesday to sharing photographs of Bibaa and Nicole’s slain corpses and making degrading and insulting comments on WhatsApp about the bodies they were supposed to be guarding.
I have noticed that two things happen when society lives through times of rapid change, as we have been doing for some time. The first is that our need to be inspired grows, the second is that our ability to be an inspiration is manifested. As we shift into the final few weeks of summer (can you believe that?) and navigate the ever-changing COVID plans and updates, I feel we’re all in need of a news platform that understands that too.
Since I sat down to write my welcome piece, our focus at Black Wall St. Media to promote news of common interest to create and facilitate positive narratives on the diaspora, has not been short of material.
As a psychologist, journalist, strategist, empowerment ambassador and the CEO of several platforms, companies, and a charity; each of them has inclusion, diversity, justice, social cause, and intersectionality at their core.