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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 8d

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Kenyans win case to prove UK soldiers are their fathers

Commercially available DNA databases were used to identify unknown fathers, who had served in Kenya.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 9d

Here I provide snapshots of 20+ films that have something to tell us about law and race and argue for their use as pedagogical tools. The post also includes a rare clip from Death is Part of the Process [1986], a film about the early days of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
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The Law and Race Film Club

20+ films on Law, Race and Society

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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 9d

Very important article especially for racially minorities young people.

Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 9d

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The Centrality of ‘Guilt’ in Youth Justice – Conceptualising Child ‘Guilt’ for Child First Justice - Kathy Hampson, Stephen Case, Roger Smith, Rosemary Toll, 2025

Children are extremely vulnerable yet often treated as adults, measured by adult-centric conceptualisations of ‘guilt’ and expected to decide on their own culpa...

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 10d

"The film ends with these lines spoken by the character of Gandhi, ‘When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it: always.’"

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 10d

My reflection on the movie "Gandhi" (1982) notes that for any movement for social justice to achieve its goals, it requires the endurance of the long-distance runner more than the brief burst of speed of the sprinter.
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Gandhi The Movie: A child in the 80s learns about resistance

‘There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.’

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 11d

Great piece by @anandmenon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon

Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe

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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 11d

A good point but what about the contribution of Black women?

Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 11d

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School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds

Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 11d

I think this is probably true. Yes I still don’t thing there’s much appetite to revisit the arguments.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11d

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 25d

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National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Aug 27

A few of us have been working to set up a research network of legal scholars innovating in the teaching of race, colonialism & empire. We have received provisional approval as a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of the Law and Society Association (LSA)!

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CRN 58 Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire - Law and Society Association

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · Aug 24

If your mate formed a useless indie band called Asylum Hotels they would get bigger crowds than this

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 24

"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture

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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · Aug 26

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International solidarity must go beyond merely statements

Higher education is about so much more than degrees or outcomes. It is about dignity. Learning continues in Gaza because people refuse to give up, and...

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · Aug 25

The lengths I'd go to make you focus on the front page of the Sunday papers so you didn't notice the football pages.... (now with the link done right. Cos I'm a tech bro) observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...

As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...

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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Asylum Accommodation Can Be Done Better - Migrants Organise

Prison-like hotel asylum accommodation is not an unavoidable response to “crisis,” but a deliberate narrowing of political possibility.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Aug 16

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map

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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · Aug 6

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Most often, black people in the EU are discriminated against when searching for employment or accommodation. Racism was found to be widespread among landlords preventing black people from renting an apartment."

www.brusselstimes.com/765638/being...

Being black in Belgium: Over half have experienced racism in last five years

A clear rise in racism has been found against people of African descent in Europe: 47% in the EU, and 58% in Belgium have felt discriminated.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 31

I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · Jul 31

At PhD/post-PhD level, academia is fundamentally dialogical and unless you intend to hide behind a prompt your whole life, you are going to look like a fool when you open your mouth and don't have a working understanding of the things you profess to write about.

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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · Jul 31

"There are Mexicans of African descent and they have lived in Mexico for 500 years! Have you heard of the slave resistance movement led by Afro-Mexican national hero, Gaspar Yanga? Did you know that Afro-Mexicans were instrumental in winning Mexico's independence?"
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AFRO MEXICO: Black History In Mexico!

Yes that's right! There are Mexicans of African descent and they have lived in Mexico for 500 years! Have you heard of the slave resistance movement led by Afro-Mexican national hero, Gaspar Yanga?…

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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · Jul 19

"What does it mean to navigate identity as a Ghanaian-Italian in a predominantly white society? Benedicta Djumpah shares her journey as she faces stereotypes and strives to find pride in her heritage."
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · Jul 18

My take for @chathamhouse.org on yesterday's 'Kensington Treaty' signed between Germany and the UK. In my view, it is an important milestone both for the bilateral 🇩🇪-🇬🇧 relationship and for European security, as it is closely linked to a revival of the E3:

Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · Jul 18

Friedrich Merz’s visit to the UK only a week after that of Emmanuel Macron symbolizes a return of the E3 format – France, Germany and the UK – as the driving force of European security, writes @nvondarza.bsky.social.

After Brexit: E3. New treaty puts UK, Germany and France back at the heart of European security

Friedrich Merz’s visit to the UK only a week after that of Emmanuel Macron symbolizes a return of the E3 format – France, Germany and the UK – as the driving force of European security.

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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · Jul 17

"... there is a real struggle between the people-of-color Italians and [white] Italian society. Asian Italians, Black Italians are really struggling to be accepted as Italians."

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They are Black. They are Italians. And they are changing their country.

It’s not easy for Black Italians to grow up feeling Italian when significant portions of Italy treat them as outsiders. But legally, artistically, and socially, Black Italians are staking their claim…

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · Jul 17

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · Jul 16

"... the survey 'Africa and Health: The opinion of Italians', conducted by the Ipsos market research body, revealing that seven out of ten Italians believe Africans are victims of racism and discrimination in Italy."

www.infomigrants.net/en/post/5598...

Survey reveals perceptions of racism towards Africans in Italy

The Italian chapter of the health development NGO Amref has presented the survey 'Africa and Health: The opinion of Italians', conducted by the Ipsos market research body, revealing that seven out of…

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