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he year 2020 marked a watershed moment for the Black community in the USA, here in the UK and across the globe.
The magazine follows this format. We start with the EXPERIENCE section where we tell the incredible story of Dyke & Dryden that was begging to be shared. We also hear from the people keeping their legacy alive.
The 8 minutes and 46 seconds that Derek Chauvin’s knee choked the life out of George Floyd forced the whole world to confront the proverbial elephant In the EXPOSURE section we in the room. share 10 People to follow, 10 Products to buy & to try and 10 Boardrooms, class rooms, dining Pages (books) to read or listen. rooms, TV rooms & bedrooms resonated with discussions about The EXPRESSION section the extent to which ‘Black Lives introduces #OurGreat8, thought Matter’ or not. For us, Black leaders in our community who’ll lives always mattered! cheer us, challenge us and change us with thoughts about Pitch Black will reclaim our our past, present and future. collective stories here in the UK by focusing on 3 areas: Please enjoy the magazine & engage with us on our social EXPERIENCE: media channels so we can Highlighting Our Past go on this journey together. EXPOSURE: Hosting Our Present BiG Love & Blessings EXPECTATION: Heralding our Future
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Our Contributors Dr Philippe Douyan MD Philippe is a board certified Neurologist and is the Founder & CEO of the health, wellness, and technology company, The Inle BrainFit Institute® which was created to improve people’s health and quality of life. Connect with Philippe @
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Dawn Grant Dawn Grant is the founder of BlackEconomics.co.uk and UpTechMds.com a tech and marketing business. Dawn is also a writer – having authored over 20 books. She resides in London with her family. She encourages children and other young people to have a profession AND to be entrepreneurial with several streams of income. Link with Dawn on Twitter
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Alex Gordon Alex is a Certified World Class Speaking Coach and helps business owners, coaches and consultants to pitch, present and perform their stories with clarity, confidence and conviction. Connect with Alex @ masteryourmessage.co.uk
Stella Kennard Stella shares the truth behind illness, disease and good health, through addressing the root cause of health imbalances, using plant based alternative treatment. She offers a personalised care plan, that includes a health assessment, allergy and intolerance testing, an emphasis on food as medicine, and ways to make step by step changes towards optimal health.Connect with Stella @
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#OurGreat8 Judy Lynch-Tomlin Judy is an educator & entrepreneur with over 30 years experience in schools & social care and believes in holistic education. She is passionate about social emotional & mental health and it's convergence with creative education & enterprise. Connect with Judy @
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Rev’d David Shosanya David is Director and Principal at Paideia Training & Consultancy. He is also one of three co-founders of the nationally acclaimed Street Pastors Initiative, regularly speaks at business, academic, community events as well as corporate and public sector events. He serves as Chair of TRANSFORM UK, and is a member of the Scotland Yard Strategic Advisory Group. Connect with David @ paideiatrainingandconsultancy.co.uk
Dr Floyd Millen Floyd is a Political Scientist with a PhD in Political Science & Criminology from Loughborough University and a Masters Degree in Modern British Politics from the University of Hull. He studied under Professor the Lord Norton of Louth and the former Labour Home Secretary The Rt Hon Charles Clarke. Connect @
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Sharon is an entrepreneur who strongly believes that every person has an obligation, a duty, and a responsibility to ensure they leave an inheritance for generations to come. Through her financial services agency Sharon has facilitated, coached, mentored, and supported many to build financial resilience. Connect with Sharon @
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Experience. Exposure. Expression.
Our Contents 10 Products to buy & try
We introduce 10 Products that you will want to buy & to try. We share what they are, how much, who’s behind it & where you can get it.
10 Pages to read or listen Leaders are readers so we share our reading list for the next quarter. We’re sure you will resonate with these stories & recognise a lot in them.
Expression Mindset
Experience
Dyke, Dryden & Wade
We celebrate the lives of the visionaries behind one of the UK's iconic companies. The Dyke & Dryden story is one of tenacity, resilience and turning adversity into triumph through serving the UK’s Black community.
Keeping The Legacy Alive
We introduce you to Rudi Page & Derek Clement who played no small part in the incredible Dyke & Dryden era and are keen to keep the legacy alive.
Exposure 10 People to follow
Turn up your Black Voice Alex Gordon shares his thoughts on the importance of telling our stories so that we can create and influence the narrative of our collective story.
Mindset
These 4 Thoughts Colin Tomlin shares 4 mantras on how to get back on track or keep things on track in these unprecedented times.
Wellness
3 Ways to Take Charge of your Brain & Be ready for 2022. With less than 3 months to go to the new year. Dr Philippe Douyan MD introduces 3 things we can do to take control of our brains and be set for success.
Faith
Faith for our Future Rev’d David Shosanya explores the topic of faith and religion, a mainstay of The UK’s Black Community and what this has meant and what it means now.
This Black History Month we share our thoughts on 10 People who we think you should Business An Opportunity for Change follow and why. Stella Kennard shares what running her
business from home has meant for her and how it could change your life too by seizing an opportunity for change.
Economics
About Black Economics Dawn Grant introduces the idea of Black Economics and why buying Black is key to buying back the economic equity that will be the foundation of a better future.
Finance
Pimp your Money Sharon Wint-Gordon educates us about 4 ways to intentionally take control of our finances by pimping our money to move from the land of ‘have nots’ to inhabiting the land of the ‘haves’.
Education
Post Pandemic Perspectives in Education Judy Lynch Tomlin takes us on a journey of our relationship with the UK’s schools, exploring what it means for the future of our children’s learning and development.
Politics
Religion has failed. Politics will succeed Dr Floyd Millen challenges us to shift away from religion to a place where our faith moves us to use our voices to share our vision and speak at the ballot box.
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1 Who is he? Akyaaba Addai-Sebo was a Special Projects Officer at the Greater London Council, and later at the London Strategic Policy Unit when he initiated the first Black History Month celebration in 1987. Why follow him? Stirred by the identity crisis that the UK’s Black children exhibited, Akyaaba decided to do something about it. 34 years on, Black History Month is helping us to be Proud To Be. Share your Thoughts
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10 Who is he? David Adetayo Olusoga OBE, is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film maker. Why follow him? One of David’s recent books, Black & British: A Forgotten History, which is also the subject of a 4 part BBC documentary series, explores the long history between Africa and Britain and how they have been intimately intertwined for hundreds of years. Share your Thoughts
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...to turn up our Black voice is for us to find a way for our rich history to live far beyond our own mortality.
You’ve got to Speak Up & Raise your Voice Even Though You’re Nervous and Feel Like An Introvert Have you ever considered, that what you know, what you’ve been through, your truth, is enough reason for people to listen to you speak, to be heard?
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the brain healthy and minimizing the risks of neurological degeneration.
#2. Exercise Daily
The brains of modern humans are very different from the brains of our early ancestors. Over the millennia our brains have gotten bigger and more complicated. The number of neurons and connections between them have increased in a process called encephalization. Research shows that the reason that the brain evolved in this way was the need for early humans to run long distances. It was the activity of moving their bodies in order to escape from predators and chase down prey that caused the brain to grow and the number of cells to expand to the numbers we now have today. We know that regular exercise gives our brains everything they
Whether it’s to overcome challenges or get ready for a new beginning it’s our ability to take control of our brains that ultimately determines our level of success.
Exercise is also a necessary prescription in the prevention of disease and the recovery from illness.
#3. Focus on the life we want to create
Our brains need us to lead them especially since there are millions of things competing for our attention everyday.
When something becomes the center of our interests that is where our lives follow. A group of neurons in our brainstem called the reticular activating system focuses our awareness on what’s important to us, increasing the likelihood that our thoughts come to pass. Whether it’s to overcome challenges or get ready for a new beginning it’s our ability to take control of our brains that ultimately determines our level of success.
need to make new neurons and new connections. Exercise promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, learn, and heal. It’s the best stress Come take charge of your brain with your personal reliever, antibrain expert! depressant, and antianxiety treatment there is. Share your Thoughts @PitchBlackMagUK
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local councils and schools would organise Black Economics also some activity or have encourages white and speakers in. Since the Asian nationalities to 2020 Black Lives Protests, people have seek out black decided to place more businesses to support. This is a good importance onto way of giving back and celebrating black supporting the many history in October – in the UK and February in talents of black the USA. creatives and trades people who are working hard to make a better life for their families. Find a way to Knowledge spend with them. about Black Companies need to Achievers & consider Supplier Diversity. Your Products can Supplier list should include black-owned reduce companies.
Racism
Black History Month
Racism usually comes from ignorance.
A certain group of people only know negative black history – It is fitting that this magazine – Pitch Black slavery, violence, - should be launched drugs, incarceration, in black history month. poverty. For them blacks are seen as less Black History Month has been around for a than white or Asian long time, but most of people. They have little respect – and this is the country ignored it. Black Communities exacerbated if they have never become however had always friends with Black welcomed and people. celebrated it in some form or another. Some
Education serves to reduce this ignorance. It serves to give a more rounded view of the black population, by highlighting black heroes and heroines, some of whose stories were hidden from view and are only now coming to the fore. Everyone can see black singers, rappers, artists, manufacturers, sports people and appreciate their talent. But we do not know of what they went through to get there, and that backstory is what can strengthen and inspire a generation. For many it provides a healthy respect between cultures. Black Economics celebrates people who are helping to move the needle, regarding the economic status of Black communities.
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Become a student of your life, increase your knowledge, pursue the change you want to see, build your mind, read self-improvement books – invest in your own development.
P is for Priorities
Here’s a startling statistic of 100 people at age 67; 1 is wealthy, 4 financially independent 95 still working or dead broke. So, are you doing the right things with your time?
Remember to ‘make It’s ok to say you want hay while the sun to be wealthy, prioritize shines’ so make sure you are saving, being successful and don’t be embarrassed investing and have the to wish for a better life. right protection!
...prioritize being successful and don’t be embarrassed to wish for a better life.
If you really want to be successful you MUST be willing to miss out for a period. Many of us are suffering unnecessarily today because we failed at deferred gratification. However, it’s never too late to learn FOCUS, As Eric Thomas says, “Don’t give up, don’t quit until you succeed.”
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This is the same cohort found in ESN schools 50 years on from the scandal.
community would be compounded exponentially. The impact is still felt by many, and the issue Is this the expectation of education and race is of the British education complex beyond these system? brief reflections. Consideration of past occurrences in tandem with present issues inform and support progress for the future.
If we expect nothing to change then nothing will.
This requires that we acknowledge issues as well as continue to acquire knowledge.
The lockdown caused many of us to reflect on what really matters, and the opportunity to examine what needs to change to ensure that in another 50 years’ time the seats around the educational table [and others] offers a balanced
view -the view and worth that black lives matter alongside every life at the table.
What should the Black parents rallied As we emerge expectation and through the ESN from the appalling response be to a scandal and provided a spectre of the covid system that is not supplementary school pandemic and the working? system that provided racial focus solution and rescue for surrounding George If we expect nothing to numerous victims Floyds’ death, what change then nothing impacted by the expectations do we will. trauma. have? Without this response, the damage to the black Share your Thoughts @PitchBlackMagUK
Politics
We need to critically appraise where we were, where we are and where we are going as a nation and as a people. Black community in modern Britain. Individual exceptionalism will of course ensure that some of us will rise; however, the rising tide of equality has not lifted all boats; look at the leaders and board members of the FTSE 100, FTSE 250, AIM and leaders across industries: not for want of trying, but people of Black heritage are noticeable by our absence.
recipients of the services that we are alienated from influencing. Is religion to blame, and is politics the answer?
right wing than the political right, and the political right at times have adopted left of centre fiscal and economic policies.
Environmental movements which have Recreating historically been seen as being on the left our world We are entering into a have adopted new age of political and authoritarian practices inimical of the right. technological revolution. The political climate – and Political cross dressing means there are more landscape - has places and ways for our changed and the role vision of the world to that technology is playing in that change be channelled and Wholistically, as a realised. must not be community, we are underestimated and largely absent from This is a good thing. the role of religion decision-making, and if must no longer usurp we are there; we are Let’s reimagine the or stultify our innate rendered invisible, and ability to recreate our world not through the if we are speaking, we world. lens of religion but are the unheard. It is through faith and the still a source of my activism of politics; Across the political discontent that we are landscape, political because faith without not sitting around politics is dead. parties are donning many decision-making each other’s clothes; tables, but yet we are the left at times Share your Thoughts over represented as appears to be more @PitchBlackMagUK
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