Michelle Harris
Diving Into Diversity
So, here we are completing our finals, just weeks away from clutching a BA and donning our mortarboard hats and graduation gowns with pride....
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Just a week ago Boris Johnson announced that it would be “inhumane to cancel Christmas.” Yet days later that’s exactly what was advised, with...
A Care Free Christmas?
Help around some of the issues discussed in this interview is offered through Listening Works who can be texted on 0808 802 0222 and...
Great Names To Be Aware Of #DHMPT3
When you hear names like Albert Einstein or Maya Angelou, their discoveries or creativity may spring to mind. However what you may not know...
From The Founder Himself Here’s Why Disability History Month Matters #DHMPT2
Former teacher and disabled activist Richard Rieser, from Newington Green, is the founder of Disability History Month (DHM) and organises the month of celebration...
The Black Presence In The Environmental Movement
Writer, broadcaster and ambassador of the Black & Green Project Zakiya Mckenzie talks us through how the project challenges assumptions, and engages diverse communities...
Do They Know It’s Disability History Month? – #DHMPt1
Disability History Month (UKDHM) is here, but sadly awareness isn’t. November 18th marked the beginning of the month, which annually focuses on the history...
Making Black History: Today’s Trailblazers
After a summer of lockdowns and heated protests against racial injustice, the contribution to British society made by these seven trailblazers, is especially welcome.
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Poems From The Pandemic: The Caged Bird Sings
Rising East reporter Michelle Harris draws inspiration from Maya Angelou to reflect on the experience of being caged in under lockdown.
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Poets Reporting On The Pandemic
Since the national lockdown was announced in March, we have seen an outpouring of poetry on our timelines and news broadcasts. As we desperately...
Fighting COVID-19: Youth Vanguard
According to Dr Bruce Aylward, senior executive at the World Health Organisation (WHO), young people are not taking the pandemic seriously. He fears that...
Nightingale and Seacole: What’s In A Hospital Name?
When the Excel conference centre in Docklands was converted into a hospital, it was fittingly named after Florence Nightingale. The next corona crisis hospital,...
Memo To Ministers, Supermarket Bosses and Everyone Else: Show More Consideration For The Disabled
Life under lockdown means that everyone faces challenges every day. But some of us have experienced this all our lives. As a wheelchair user...
Petitioning Parliament To Repay Student Fees
An online parliamentary petition calling for the government to reimburse this year's tuition fees to university students, has gained 319,343 signatures.
After the lecturers' strikes...
The Change of Pace
There was never enough time
And everyone would complain: 'if only there were enough hours in the day'
To paint, to bake and wake not to...
Posts From The Pandemic No 30: Meme-ification Of Covid-19 Goes Viral
The coronavirus has gone viral in many ways. While we study from home on lockdown it is at the centre of our every conversation,...
Posts From The Pandemic No 24: There Is Such A Thing As Society
As the country sits at home on lock down watching the news from the sidelines, it’s hard not to be overwhelmed by feelings of...
Sexual Health Crisis?
According to a report just out, by the time you’ve finished your three-hour morning class, approximately 154 people will have been diagnosed with a...
World Hijab Day: Progressive or Oppressive?
This year's World Hijab Day (WHD) falls on 1 February. But how should we react to this annual event, which was initiated in the...
56 Black Men Changing the Narrative
For some the hoodie is just comfortable sports apparel - something easy to just fling on for a trip to the gym or that...
Who Cares For The Care Leavers?
Starting a degree and moving to university can be overwhelming. For many students it’s the first time living away from home, the first time...
What Is to Be Done About Football Racism?
Two days into #National Hate Crime Awareness Week and our England players were subjected to an appalling display of racial abuse during the Euro...