Judith Jacob Profile
Judith Jacob

@JJyabbas

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I'm an actress, worked on several TV series Eastenders, Real McCoy & more, film, theatre. Radio Presenter 1-4pm Thursdays Conscious radio 102fm

England
Joined October 2009
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@JJyabbas
Judith Jacob
1 year
Imagine, this happened 18 months ago and only got an official apology last week because of public pressure!
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Judith Jacob
1 year
I hope @HackneyAbbott has a strong army of friends and family supporting and holding her up. 🖤
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Judith Jacob
4 years
Here we go again! And that classic line 'you're being aggressive'. When actually you're trying to find out apart from the colour of my skin what actual intelligence was used to stop me?
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codingForJustice 💎
4 years
Black man in posh car pulls up to park outside his house. Two seconds later police stop and search him for no reason other than he is black in a posh car. Full video
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@JJyabbas
Judith Jacob
6 months
The Youths are not uneducated! They're observing and chatting nuff sense!
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Judith Jacob
11 months
I'm truly sad to hear that Benjamin Zephaniah has left this world. However, he his works lives on and he will be remembered. Rest In Eternal Peace Benjamin 😔
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Judith Jacob
6 months
Is it possible for this woman to degrade herself anymore? Kemi Badenoch: UK’s wealth isn’t from white privilege and colonialism
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Pardner, a great tradition that really helped our parents in England to save for their house or whatever was needed. Glad it's being recognised. Windrush ‘pardner hand’ saving scheme celebrated at Bank of England Museum
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Judith Jacob
4 months
Very enraging! What the hell! She's 89 and being treated like this. Windrush pensioner faces homelessness at 89 as Home Office ‘cannot verify identity’
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Judith Jacob
1 year
I seriously believe this woman is dangerous. @SuellaBraverman is pushing for a race riot and more Africans/African descent and Asian people to be attacked by her fellow racists. Suella Braverman claims ‘hurricane’ of mass migration coming to UK
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@JJyabbas
Judith Jacob
10 months
Benjamin Zephaniah touched so many people with his words and actions that him leaving the world has been acknowledged virally.
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Judith Jacob
9 months
He's only 14, Heman Bekele, is only 14! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🖤🖤🔥🔥🔥
@NewsHour
PBS News
9 months
Fourteen-year-old Heman Bekele spent the last year developing a bar of soap that could treat skin cancer. @johnyangtv talks with Bekele for more.
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Judith Jacob
9 months
Why wasn't this in mainstream news? This wicked man deliberately kills a child, yet radio silence! 🤔
@lorrainemking
Lorraine King
9 months
Nicholas Hopkins has been jailed for killing Mustafa Ahmed, 8, by mowing him down with his motorbike as he was on a pedestrian crossing with his dad and brother outside Greenwich Islamic Centre in East London. Look at him grinning like a Cheshire cat after killing a sweet baby.
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Look what we, BiBi Crew, got. Yep, a plague. It will be placed in the box office at Theatre Royal Stratford East. We are so honoured. @JanetKayMusic & Suzette Llewellyn couldn't make it, but they were repped as were our departed sisters #josephinemelville #joannecampbell
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Judith Jacob
1 year
We knew that already. What's needed is for the police to be taken into account every, single, time. Till people are bit singled out because they are African/ African descent!
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Judith Jacob
7 months
When is racism not racism? When it's directed at an African/African descent woman! If we substitute the word Black for Jewish, there would, very rightly, be an almighty uproar. @10DowningStreet
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Judith Jacob
4 months
I'm gutted #threelittlebirds will not get another series. I loved it! If @LennyHenry Name isn't big enough to guarantee series 2, that's very worrying. Lenny Henry rues fate of black TV dramas after Three Little Birds axed
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Judith Jacob
11 months
How can Belgium celebrate the most evil man in history, Leopold, by making chocolate hands? It's disgusting! This article deals with the subject brilliantly. Thank you all who highlighted this.
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Judith Jacob
5 years
Gwarn @DavidLammy 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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rosetta delisle #FBPE #HopeDiesLast #🕷
5 years
Go David Lammy 👏👏👏
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Judith Jacob
2 years
I absolutely love this portrait done of me by my very dear friend @eliapaintings . I've been immortalised and she's made ne look Fab-bu-lous! 🖤
@InFemsAC
InFems Art Collective
4 years
Today's Inspirational woman: Wendy Elia Portrait of Judith Jacob Actor, Writer, Presenter, DJ Co-founder of the Black Theatre Co-op (BTC) Best known for her role in #EastEnders & sketch show #TheRealMcCoy that brought a groundbreaking black British perspective to TV. #InFems
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Love this! Save the culture. Buiniga to the World! 🖤🔥🖤💃🏿
@GuardianAus
Guardian Australia
2 years
The Fijian ‘afro’ has becomes a symbol of national pride with some young women refusing to straighten their hair, opting instead for the traditional unisex hairstyle called Buiniga.
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Your right to protest, curtailed. Your right to strike, curtailed. Your human rights, curtailed. What country am I talking about?
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Judith Jacob
1 year
This is 'hostile environment' has devastated peoples lives, and yet @thehomeoffice is dragging their feet sorting this nightmare out!
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Judith Jacob
11 months
Anna made it possible for children whose parents couldn't afford stage school to do drama & become fully fledged actors. She gave us unconditionally love and belief 😔 Tributes paid to ‘wonderful’ drama teacher Anna Scher, who has died at 78
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Judith Jacob
10 months
I cannot even begin to imagine the pain she had to endure, deliberately inflicted on her. Yes, we honour Anarcha Westcott, whose name I've only just learnt.
@Africa_Archives
Africa Archives ™
10 months
Today we honor Anarcha Westcott. She was a 17 year enslaved girl who underwent roughly 30 operations without anesthesia for a vesicovaginal fistula (abnormal connection between vagina and bladder= urine coming through your vagina). She healed after this surgery. James Marion Sim
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Judith Jacob
1 year
It happens a lot police using the excuse of smelling cannabis to harass African/ African descent people. However this time🔥🔥🔥 Police 'smelled cannabis' during stop and search of Ricardo Dos Santos and Bianca Williams | UK News | Sky News
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Judith Jacob
7 months
Another excellent article! Unlike @KemiBadenoch who thinks this is old news now, as she said this morning on @NickFerrariLBC show. We shouldn't let this go till there's something done! Why the mistreatment of Diane Abbott demands our attention
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Judith Jacob
6 months
The Barbados government shouldn't pay a dam cent for land Richard Drax family murdered, raped, and tortured our ancestors! Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Well done to the suppliers for stopping supplying to this 'if you don't like the golliwogs go somewhere else' pub. That's not quite the quote by near enough. Looks like they're going somewhere else Instead!
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Didn't @KemiBadenoch also want us to look at the benefits of slavery! What a rarse!
@lorrainemking
Lorraine King
1 year
Imagine wanting to teach children that black people benefitted from slavery. The utter ludicrousy and disrespect is peak. No wonder Kamala Harris is vex - I am too 🤬
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Judith Jacob
1 year
France, Please. Still punishing Haiti for darling to rebel against being enslaved and winning! Anti-African is real in all European countries who carved up Africa! France urged to outlaw hair discrimination against afros and braids
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Judith Jacob
9 months
This government is determined to not pay the compensation. Instead, it treats them like criminals! There's no legal aid anymore, so they have to navigate this minefield alone. Record number of Windrush compensation claims rejected
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Judith Jacob
1 year
The last thing you want or need, when your loved one has been killed, is to fight for justice. When do you get to grieve?
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Judith Jacob
1 year
I was so honoured to witness you getting your recognition at the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival and very much looking forward to being one of the judges at your yearly @RWFoundation_ drama awards💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
@RudolphWalkerDA
Rudolph Walker CBE
1 year
Pictured with @JJyabbas at the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival where I was honoured to receive The Paulette Wilson Justice Award for my work in the community. Judith is kindly giving her time to judge the @RWFoundation_ inter School Drama Awards on Sunday @ShawTheatreLDN
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Judith Jacob
11 months
Anna Scher made it possible for working class children to access drama and the possibility of becoming a professional actor. 🖤😔
@LouieJKeen
Louie Keen
11 months
Taken a moment to process the sad news of losing Anna Scher this weekend. An honour to have known and be taught by someone so special. Perhaps the best way to remember Anna is through stories… Thread 🧵
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@JJyabbas
Judith Jacob
7 months
I've nit heard if this amazing woman before. I wish I did. However, her books are still there, and I will read some. Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean 'grand storyteller' dies aged 90
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Omg! Police are just people with all their prejudices. How can this be rooted out? Police officer charged with beating and strangling mixed-race girl in back of van
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Judith Jacob
9 months
Wtf! I can't bear seeing this. It hurts, it gets me angry and worse bring used to intimate! 😡
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Judith Jacob
9 months
Great. This needs to be kept in the public arena so it doesn't get more ignored! Actors, musicians and campaigners call for faster Windrush compensation
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@JJyabbas
Judith Jacob
2 years
Wow! So criticise the Home Office, the #windrush payment stops! Home Office delays Windrush grants amid row over social media posts
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Well what a surprise that Tony Sewell is to become a Lord having sold us down the sewer, no pun intended! Tony Sewell to become a Lord
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Judith Jacob
6 months
Nana is so desperate to seem relevant to the right wing! 🤦🏿‍♀️
@lorrainemking
Lorraine King
6 months
Nana Akua says Meghan's website is 'heartless and cold' and has 'gone down like a cup sick'. She also says Meghan 'must be spitting feathers' that Kate is 'idolised more and is possibly the most loved woman on Earth'. There's a lot to unpack with her latest anti-Meghan rant 🤔
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Huge congratulations on winning this racist case!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Dominoes player wins case over ‘racist’ noise ban in London square
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Judith Jacob
5 months
Well done to all who made their voice heard and that Goldsmiths University also, heard!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Goldsmiths University to keep Black British literature course open
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Taking tents away from rough sleepers - and punishing charities who give those tents out? What a cruel idea. It won't fix homelessness. It'll just make people's lives harder. Shame on you @SuellaBraverman . Sign now to get these plans scrapped:
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Judith Jacob
1 year
I said the same thing! It looks like if there were no pioneers (Windrush generation), there'd be no NHS
@thisisdede_
Dede
1 year
Funny how it’s 75 years of windrush and 75 years of the NHS .Funny that 🙃
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Every, single, time. She proves that she's as racist as any of those people/ organisations
@SholaMos1
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
2 years
Suella Braverman the Brown racial gatekeeping Executioner of racist Tory policies REFUSES to accept Met Police is racist. Apparently ‘institutional racism’ is politically charged - what arrant anti-woke nonsense. A Brown face doing White Supremacy dirty work is nothing new.
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Judith Jacob
6 months
Pmg! I have no memory of this pic. I remember that outfit I'm wearing 😃. Love it!
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Paul A. Rider
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@JJyabbas Love this one J xx
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Judith Jacob
2 years
My beautiful friend. I cannot believe I will no longer hear her laugh or share her optimism. This truly hurts our Bibi Crew sister. 😪😪😪💔💔😪 Josephine Melville, ‘EastEnders’ Actress, Dies at 61 Backstage After Play Performance via @thr
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Last year Angus, drummie Zeb, left the world. Still hurts. My sis Josephine Melville, leaving the world, the pain is still raw! Drummie Zeb dead: Lead singer of reggae band Aswad dies aged 62
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Wow. I'm about to read #becomingvisable author Abi Osho about private fostering. This article is very honest. Being forcibly adopted by a white family in the 70s almost destroyed my sense of self
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Judith Jacob
10 months
I've never heard of this artist b4. She released 5 albums, a short space of time. Her music talks to women who have experienced violence. "Zahara said her music was not for recognition but to bring comfort to broken souls that need healing."
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Judith Jacob
2 years
The @BBC is backing the wrong horse. Don't let the @Conservatives dictate what people can say about them. Hello isn't that the beginning of a fascist state?
@IanWright0
Ian Wright
2 years
Everybody knows what Match of the Day means to me, but I’ve told the BBC I won’t be doing it tomorrow. Solidarity.
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Judith Jacob
8 months
This has totally made me well up! Congratulations tothis brother and his mum.
@HumanityChad
Restoring Your Faith in Humanity
8 months
A mother's reaction after seeing her son has passed the bar exam
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Judith Jacob
1 year
I've never heard of this prolific actor. Thanks Suzette Llewellyn for sharing. Overlooked black actor may have been most prolific in early British cinema
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Eva Motley, loved her. Truly talented, troubled soul.
@NevilleFChambe1
Neville F Chamberlain
1 year
Remembering today the late 🇬🇧British actress #EvaMottley (24 October 1953 – 14 February 1985)
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Judith Jacob
7 months
Very Interesting! African people R being arrested for being 'racist' but actual racist especially rich ones, nothing! Is the term ‘coconut’ controversial, racist – or both?
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Judith Jacob
4 years
It is a funny sketch 'shame guy!'
@WomanSayss
WomanSays
4 years
@JJyabbas Hey, look what a friend of mine just sent me! Still very funny and relatable! Good times!
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Judith Jacob
11 months
Herbs, the healing of the nation. Pharmaceutical companies won't be having that.
@fasc1nate
Fascinating
11 months
"Ride with Larry" is an amazing documentary. Watch this scene as retired police captain Larry Smith, who has Parkinson’s, tries medical marijuana for the first time.
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Why? Why is our natural hair an issue. Great she won. Not great she had to go through discrimination. The battle continues
@SkyNews
Sky News
5 years
A-level student Ruby Williams won £8,500 in an out of court settlement after her school repeatedly sent her home because they claimed her hair was "too big" - an experience she describes as a "humiliation". To watch more videos, click here:
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Yet, this Clapham insists he smelt cannabis! He was sacked for lying, so his only defence? Stick to the lie! Met officers sacked for lying in stop and search of black athletes in car
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Absolutely disgusting! Who are these migrants to tell the indigenous people should be recognised. Using @SholaMos1 words, the caucasity! A WHA DE!
@CNN
CNN
2 years
Australians will vote whether the nation’s Indigenous peoples, which make up 3.2% of the population, should be recognized in the Constitution.
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Judith Jacob
5 years
I'm loving our MP's right now @DavidLammy is taking no prisoners. We need to be heard in parliament! Well done to all who took to the streets to make our voices heard too @HackneyAbbott who was there on the ground talking to the people.
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Whenever im reminded of this brave, innocent man, it always makes me feel very sad and frustrated!
@LqLana
LanaQuest aka RosaSparks
1 year
Let’s take a moment to remember Kalief Browder - sent to Rikers Island as a teenager for allegedly stealing a backpack to await trial with no Bond. Three years in prison being abused awaiting trial for something he never did. Two of those years in solitary confinement, but
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Judith Jacob
2 years
This man is a Tory politician. Will he get away with saying 'all white men should have a black man as a slave or a black woman as a slave' Andrew Edwards is his name.
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Judith Jacob
2 years
Too many Caribbean children were deliberately held back by using that term 'Educationally Subnormal'. You are a perfect example of the history of our Resistance!
@SirGeoffPalmer
Sir Geoff Palmer
2 years
Our History/Cricket 1955/London: A local school said I was Educationally Subnormal but a Secondary Modern School took me for a term, then I would leave to work in a factory but this article,in an Islington paper, got me transferred to a local Grammar School…the rest is history!
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Judith Jacob
1 year
We must keep the pressure and publicity alive about the terrible mistreatment of our elders and their children who's only known England as their home. Windrush campaigner fears Home Office could wind up compensation scheme
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Judith Jacob
1 year
All I would say is Floella is a beautiful woman. She's done a lot for children and communities. She wants to be positive.
@BBlakeHannah
Barbara Blake Hannah, O.D., O.S.E.
1 year
My Black Sister Floella. I was disappointed to see the all-white ballet costume you chose for your House of Lords portrait, but even more disappointed at your claim that being selected to carry British regalia in the Coronation parade 'shows the King's commitment to diversity'.☹️
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Judith Jacob
6 months
Why it's always the people who have the least gets targeted by this government. Please sign & share. Rishi Sunak wants to ban our GPs from being able to sign us off when we're sick! Sign the petition now and demand these dangerous new plans are dropped.
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Can this Cruella be more evil. I seriously believe she hates African/ African descent people. Suella Braverman refuses plea of man barred from UK to be reunited with son
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Judith Jacob
2 years
I do hope some of the original cast of #therealmccoy have been invited or have I missed something?
@BFI
BFI
2 years
TV comedy icons Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal will join producer Anil Gupta and host @SamiraAhmedUK for a panel discussion, following a screening of Goodness Gracious Me and The Real McCoy. 🎟️Book now #BBCTVGamechangers
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Judith Jacob
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@uaf
Unite Against Fascism
3 years
Remembering Anthony Walker, murdered in a racist attack on this day in 2005. #RIP @AntiRacismDay #OTD
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Judith Jacob
1 year
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Well, that's not a surprise! Suella Braverman rules out introducing safe routes for Sudan asylum seekers after fighting | Politics News | Sky News
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Please sign and share 🖤 It’s vital we show @KemiBadenoch that disparities in maternal health are unacceptable. I've just signed the petition, will you help spread the word and sign too?
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@JJyabbas
Judith Jacob
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@alancarr surrounded by the BiBi's. Lucky him! Ok, lucky us too. http://t.co/9xe1Yz6EsF
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Judith Jacob
1 year
Thanks @Nadine_Writes for highlighting this death that seems to very quite. Met officers in manslaughter probe after Black man dies in Taser balcony incident
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Judith Jacob
3 years
This is so beautiful. Love the love 🖤
@ABC
ABC News
3 years
Martha Mae Ophelia Moon Tucker, who was married in 1952, always wanted to wear a wedding dress. But at the time Black women weren’t allowed in bridal shops. Now 94, her dream is coming true.
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Judith Jacob
3 years
Wow! Thank you so much🖤🖤🖤
@youthunitycic
YOUTH UNITY CIC
3 years
@JJyabbas #BlackHistoryMonth Much loved Accomplished actress Eastenders,The real McCoy,BiBi Crew and so much more. She loves and supports her local community and also the wider community. Her smile and laugh is contagious beautiful lady
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