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West Midlands Police have launched an investigation after a man was stabbed and shots were fired in Kinlet Avenue, Northfield, on Saturday night. Officers were called to the area in Birmingham at around 6.15pm on Saturday 7th March, where a 41-year-old man had been stabbed several times while he sat in a black BMW car…
Why do I celebrate International Women’s Day? When this question was posed to me, I paused for a minute. It almost felt like a loaded question. ‘Why’ is IWD an important day for ‘me’ as a British Asian woman? Each year, this day marks a movement of sorts and starts conversations that go on to…
As part of our series on International Women’s Day, we’re exploring how women identify and balance their personal identities. Photographer Nathan McGill – currently based in Birmingham – has been documenting what it means to be a Black woman embodying natural Afro hair; celebrating the beauty of African and Caribbean women through visual representation, in this case, photography.
On the 9th of June 1914, a woman named Bertha Ryland slashed a painting in the city’s art gallery in Birmingham. That became one of the major incidents of the militant suffrage campaign. There are a few other incidents we already know that happened all over the world to establish women’s rights. A hundred years…