Niellah Arboine

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Each week, over 36 million people listen to BBC Radio. The BBC offers a portfolio of services aimed at offering listeners the highest quality programmes, whatever their interest or mood.
• Music radio on Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, Radio 2, 6 Music and Asian Network.
• Speech, drama, analysis and the arts on Radio 4
• Classical music and jazz on Radio 3
• News and sport on 5 live and 5 live sports extra
• Local programming from 40 stations in England
• 6 dedicated radio service...

BBC Radio Includes
Each week, over 36 million people listen to BBC Radio. The BBC offers a portfolio of services aimed at offering listeners the highest quality programmes, whatever their interest or mood.
• Music radio on Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, Radio 2, 6 Music and Asian Network.
• Speech, drama, analysis and the arts on Radio 4
• Classical music and jazz on Radio 3
• News and sport on 5 live and 5 live sports extra
• Local programming from 40 stations in England
• 6 dedicated radio service...

“I know what my purpose is. I know what I'm here for.”

Twelve months on from the death of George Floyd and the worldwide BLM protests, we ask: what has been achieved for Black lives?

I was around seven or eight years old, sitting in my plane seat as a giddy, unaccompanied minor.

When England headed into its second lockdown, I felt that this time round I knew how to make staying indoors work for me. Back in spring, the only things that stopped me from gormlessly walking around my flat and sinking into a TV binge-hole were staying active and fostering a thirst for entertaining new hobbies.

gal-dem’s Niellah Arboine shares her hair journey—from grappling with the natural hair movement to learning to love the versatility of her locks.

I always say I sort of fell into journalism. But in reality, I’ve adored writing and storytelling for as long as I can remember, and I knew I was good at it, even though I was scared to admit that it was what I wanted to do with my life.

Journalist Niellah Arboine asks why Black journalists are so underrepresented in Britain’s newsrooms.

The number of youth clubs in London has nearly halved since 2011, yet their historical importance in providing a safe space for young people is still unmatched.

“If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry,” 27-year-old comedian Munya Chawawa says over our video chat. “If you acknowledge the crushing weight of inequality, which does exist and is all around us, as a Black person, you think, why do I even bother?”

One of the things Beyoncé does best is collaborate – unafraid to share her platform to get the best results.

On Michaela Coel’s chaotic and caustic millennial drama, the British-Nigerian actress shines as the vivacious Terry – here, she discusses Black friendship, consent on screen, and researching MDMA for those wild party scenes

I speak to the actor Pippa Bennett-Warner, on a video call set to the backdrop of a pandemic that is killing black people more than any other ethnicity in the UK and the day after protests break out in Minnesota after yet another black person is murdered.

Yet, as a Black British woman, I rarely get to see any representations of those small, often emb...