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THREAD: At the end of July, amid the rightly resurgent #BlackLivesMatter 
movement, every member of our small @EachOtherUK team came together in one voice to make this pledge to become a truly anti-racist organisation: https://eachother.org.uk/becoming-an-anti-racist-organisation-our-pledge-to-eachother/ (1/?)
movement, every member of our small @EachOtherUK team came together in one voice to make this pledge to become a truly anti-racist organisation: https://eachother.org.uk/becoming-an-anti-racist-organisation-our-pledge-to-eachother/ (1/?)
Among the promises we made and meant in that pledge, we undertook to run a #BLM Takeover of our site ( http://www.eachother.org.uk ) throughout August, handing our platform over to black guest editors to amplify black voices on four themes: justice, education, charity and media. (2/?)
As August then got under way, first up was guest editor @fufuisonme on the need for 'movement lawyers' here in the UK, doing law *with* people, not just *for* them: https://eachother.org.uk/black-lives-matter-uk-for-lasting-change-we-need-movement-lawyers/ (3/?)
Next, @LaverneCaprice told businesses how taking anti-racism seriously must be about more than just their brands: https://eachother.org.uk/businesses-anti-racism-is-about-more-than-your-brands/ (4/?)
Journalist @Ella_Braidwood interviewed lawyers @MirandaGrell & @JacquiMckenzie6 and activist Zita Holbourne of @BARACUK who told her that the government's Windrush Compensation Scheme was 'placing boulders in the way of justice': https://eachother.org.uk/windrush-generation-lawyers-justice-compensation/ (5/?)
Ella also spoke with young people from the @4FrontProject who made the case for defunding the police in order to invest more in upstream community work: https://eachother.org.uk/4front-project-defund-police/ (6/?)
To finish our week of coverage on the theme of justice, @BarristerAbi threw down the gauntlet to colleagues in the legal profession to challenge racism in the courtroom: https://eachother.org.uk/courtroom-racism-how-we-must-challenge-it-in-the-uk/ (7/?)
Guest editor Professor @Kehinde_Andrews kicked off our education-themed week, arguing a society can only be as equal as the knowledge it is built upon and the sad reality is that the legacies of slavery and colonialism still shape the world today: https://eachother.org.uk/our-rights-are-built-on-idea-black-life-does-not-matter-we-must-transform-the-system/ (8/?)
Next, our editor @AaronWala heard from @Skeppz & @NABSS3 about the future of Britain's black Saturday schools: https://eachother.org.uk/black-supplementary-schools-the-path-ahead-in-britain/ (9/?)
Meanwhile, journalist @nadinebh_ interviewed black, working class A-Level students about their hopes and fears ahead of the results day debacle: https://eachother.org.uk/a-glorified-postcode-lottery-black-working-class-students-await-a-level-results/ (10/?)
Nadine also shared some facts and figures about stop and search and Driving While Black, following @DawnButlerBrent and her friend getting stopped by the @MetPoliceUK in Hackney: https://eachother.org.uk/driving-while-black-5-things-you-should-know-about-police-vehicle-stops/ (11/?)
Next, @AaronWala & @nadinebh_ heard from students and (activist ;) lawyers planning to take the government to court over downgrade 'discrimination': https://eachother.org.uk/a-level-results-students-consider-legal-action-over-discrimination/ A good example of why govt is, wrongly, so keen (cf p48 of its manifesto) to dilute judicial review. (12/?)
Lecturer @SofiaAkel of @LondonMetUni explained what decolonising the curriculum really means: https://eachother.org.uk/decolonising-the-curriculum-what-it-really-means/ (13/?)
To launch our charity-themed week, guest editor @MarthaAwojobi told us a black revolution is waking the charity sector up from complacency: https://eachother.org.uk/black-revolution-waking-charity-sector-up-from-systemic-racism/ (14/?)
Next up, @Ugo1982 told @AaronWala how black charities are being funded to fail, and what can be done about it: https://eachother.org.uk/black-charities-are-being-funded-to-fail-i-want-to-change-that/ (15/?)
Then @Kadra_A_ reminded us that Black Minds Matter, explaining how racism is affecting black people's mental health: https://eachother.org.uk/black-minds-matter-how-racism-affects-mental-health/ (16/?)
Mayokun Alonge of @theequalgroup, @DoitBayo, @Prec_Sithole, @temikamson and @CharitySoWhite told @nadinebh_ about the barriers to black leadership in the charity sector and how to break them down: https://eachother.org.uk/black-down-barriers-to-black-leadership-in-charity-sector/ #CharitySoWhite (17/?)
As part of our Inspired Source series of pieces by aspiring writers from marginalised backgrounds, @Aleisha_Omeike wrote about her experience of racism in Britain's education system: https://eachother.org.uk/how-do-we-cure-the-racism-epidemic-in-uk-schools/ (18/?)
Our final guest editor of the month, @MarcusRyder, kicked off his media-themed week at the helm with a piece explaining why media diversity is a human rights issue: https://eachother.org.uk/why-media-diversity-is-a-human-rights-issue/ (19/?)
We also launched this video interview with @areporter who shared with EachOther his thoughts on prison reform after serving 12 years inside for a crime he didn't commit: https://eachother.org.uk/raphael-rowe-spent-12-years-in-prison-for-a-crime-i-didnt-commit-heres-what-i-learned/ (20/?)
Senior Political Producer @Annemariealex, drawing on 18 years' experience in the lobby, wrote about why our democracy needs more black political journalists: https://eachother.org.uk/why-our-democracy-needs-more-black-political-journalists/ (21/?)
Guest editor @marcusryder then articulated the problem of watching world news through white eyes only: https://eachother.org.uk/the-problem-of-watching-world-news-through-white-eyes-only/ #WhiteGaze (22/?)
We've had the pleasure of @ItsanjaleeS joining us from @artsemergency for work experience here at EachOther this week. In this piece, she argues that people of south Asian descent here in the UK need to confront the racism in their own communities: https://eachother.org.uk/how-can-we-south-asians-dismantle-racism-in-our-uk-communities/ (23/?)
Today's the last day of our month-long @EachOtherUK #BLM Takeover, but next week (Tuesday 1st Sept at 1.00pm) you can tune in to catch its guest editors live in conversation with @libertyhq's soon-to-be Interim Director, @graciemaybe: (24/?)
Our commitment to anti-racism certainly doesn't end here. This month, we have offered our platform to black voices, but we are working too on our structures and systems, as well as our people. Want to join us? Apply by Sunday to become a trustee: https://eachother.org.uk/become-a-trustee-stand-up-for-human-rights/ (25/?)
Another piece, as the month comes to a close - this time @AaronWala, @nadinebh_ & @ItsanjaleeS team up to ask people who work in television if a new regulator is needed after @DavidOlusoga criticised broadcasters' lack of diversity: https://eachother.org.uk/ofcom-does-tv-need-a-new-diversity-regulator/ (26/?)
To see all @EachOtherUK's #BLM content from this summer in one place, check out: https://eachother.org.uk/black-lives-matter/ There are more stories there about jury trials, UK Black Pride, black trans activists, race in the CJS, key workers amid Covid-19, protests in a pandemic, and more. (27/?)
If you're an aspiring writer from a community that is under-represented in the mainstream media, send us a pitch to be considered for publication as part of our Inspired Source series: https://eachother.org.uk/call-for-pitches-we-want-your-human-rights-stories/ (28/?)
The first piece in that Inspired Source series, by @kjjjwilliams, deserves special mention for its foresight, warning anti-racist campaigners to stay on target and not get distracted by confected #CultureWars like the one over #LandOfHopeAndGlory: https://eachother.org.uk/to-tackle-the-uks-systemic-racism-we-must-be-focused/ (29/?)
If you like some of what we've been up to at @EachOtherUK this past month, sign up at the bottom of the page on our website to receive our email newsletter, daily and/or weekly, full of all the latest stories that put the human into #humanrights: https://eachother.org.uk/ (30/?)
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You can approach us about a piece of commissioned work for your charity. Our award-winning Creative Director @sarahwishart, Film Producer @jack_satchell & Video Assistant Rhys Norman make high quality videos about #humanrights at competitive rates: https://eachother.org.uk/commissions/ (32/?)
State-of-the-art story-telling, film-making and independent journalism though can't happen for free. Please donate so we can keep telling everyday stories of human rights that inform and inspire: https://eachother.org.uk/support/ With your help, @EachOtherUK can thrive and grow. (33/?)
Finally, thank you, all of @EachOtherUK's amazing staff, trustees, funders, partners, guests, volunteers, interviewees, followers, designers, writers, freelancers, supporters and friends: https://eachother.org.uk/about/ We are showing there is more that unites than divides us. (34/34)
