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There’s a lot of drums being beaten in the West Midlands right now, and none louder than in Birmingham, where hashtagged calls for Channel 4 to make the city its new home have become almost deafening. Between the Government pretty much forcing the iconic state-backed broadcaster to move out of the capital, and West Midlands…
A Birmingham Post article attempting to highlight the diversity of creative talent in the city, to emphasise its appeal for national broadcaster Channel 4, has come under fire for compiling a list completely made up of white men. Yes, we shit you not, in a bid to genuinely showcase “creative leaders” across Brum as an additional lure for…
Birmingham sisters Janet and Paulinah Eboh-Sampson used their creative platforms to set up the DoNation UK Project, a charitable initiative that would address the issue of donor shortages within the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Community (BAME). Inspired by the experience of their childhood friend Charlene Nelson, who underwent a kidney transplant at the age…
The West Midlands is quite arguably one of the most diverse, multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-racial regions in the country. At its heart is Birmingham, a city with a population of over one million inhabitants. Around 35% of whom are non-white, nearly 22% Muslim and 45.7% under 30, making it one of the youngest cities in Europe.