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@WandaWyporska

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CEO @safepassageuk Ex CEO @BlackEquityOrg @EqualityTrust @SocGenealogist Trustee @EsmeeFairbairn @FootballMuseum . Author/Family Historian/Speaker. @LFC My views

London, England
Joined July 2012
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A pleasure to be part of it and huge thanks to the team! Hearing us singing de Breadfruit Song in @bodleianlibs and a few weeks ago walking in to hear steel pans in @britishlibrary - music for the soul!
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On Saturday, we marked the end of my @bodleianlibs exhibit, ‘Mischief in the Archives’. A big thank you to everyone who came out to share their stories, connections and even sing a song about breadfruit! Truly grateful to the Bodleian for opening their doors to mischief 🙏🏾.
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Thank you all. Krysia is safe and well. I just found out. I cannot thank everyone enough for all the support. Huge thanks from all the family.
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Absolutely thrilled and humbled to be taking up this exciting leadership role @BlackEquityOrg . I'm looking forward to being at BEO, listening to, supporting and working with individuals, communities, business and allies.
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This handsome chap shows why Poland is one of the largest producers of baubles. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the dragon of Kraków.
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Sometimes people forget that kids internalise poverty. You learn not to ask for things and to police your needs and dreams, because you just don’t want to add to the burden. It never leaves you.
@BBCBreakfast
BBC Breakfast
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Marcus Rashford's family reveal just how much they struggled to make ends meet during his childhood 💔 📺📱 @MarcusRashford : Feeding Britain's Children | Monday, 19:00 GMT, BBC iPlayer BBC One
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Honoured, privileged and excited to start this role. We are here to listen and to learn, to campaign and to support, and to work together to dismantle structural racism. Let's do this together.
@BlackEquityOrg
BlackEquityOrg
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Today we're delighted to welcome our new CEO @WandaWyporska into post. We're incredibly excited to have Wanda's expertise, passion and dedication on board. She brings a wealth of experience leading charitable and social justice organisations. Join us in welcoming her to BEO!
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Any Black journalists there? Racism isn’t just a story for your journalism. It’s our daily emotional labour. And while I’m at it, constant repetition of what Hester said, in an almost casual way by journalists makes Black women feel it acutely. EVERY TIME.
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Fabrizio Romano
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❤️‍🩹🇧🇷 Vinicius got emotional during the Brazil's press conference after three questions about racism. “I’m sorry. I just want to play football, do everything for my club and my family, never see black people suffering.
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So the news is out! I’m incredibly honoured & thrilled to be joining the wonderful Society of Genealogists as CEO on 1st October - fittingly at the start of #BlackHistoryMonth . The last 5 years @equalitytrust were phenomenal with great teams. But it’s good to know when to leave.
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As a public service, here's a comment to those writing about golliwogs, who may not have Black friends to ask. I was racially abused regularly at primary school, and called golliwog and wog. My hair was mocked. I and the African boy were called Sambo. We were children. It hurt.
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The kindness of strangers has been brought home to me truly over the past 24 hours. Thank you to everyone, together you all made a difference to an awful trauma. We are humbled. Please continue to care about #MissingPersons , @findmbp @UKMissingPerson they are all someone’s child.
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Absolutely thrilled and humbled to have won my first trophy ever! Thanks to those who nominated me, the judges and everyone in the sector who have supported us @equalitytrust ! Brilliant field of sector leaders. Wow!
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Social CEOs
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Congratulations to @WandaWyporska for winning the Best Social CEO Award 2020!
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As one of a small number of Black Historians, I am appalled at this. We need investment in this area of study and in Black historians. I urge @UniofChi to rethink this. Outrage over UK university’s plan to cut African history course and its professor
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Absolutely humbled to be named as one of 21 charity leaders to watch in 2021 by @CharityTimes ! In fantastic company and sharing this with all the @equalitytrust team past and present.
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Just to say that if any of those institutions that will soon be relieved of #Starkey are looking for an early modern historian who is not likely to hold racist nor sexist views (low bar I know) and has a view on contemporary issues, then happily I am available. #twitterstorians
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@RebeccaRideal Thank you -It is jsut the worst, but trying every avenue we can. Flying out there tomorrow. Her friends have just been amazing, young women forcing the Police to take this seriously. We cannot wait for 24 hours.
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Very interesting that those who earn less than 50k are regarded as ‘low-skilled’. Let’s not confuse remuneration with skills. A system that values nurses, teachers and carers at less than 1 per cent of CEOs is a broken system #inequality @equalitytrust
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Delighted to share that I’ve started as Interim CEO at the amazing @safepassageuk - a charity reuniting families, challenging the immigration system and fighting for safe routes for refugees. Please do DM me if you can offer support, as a volunteer, financially or in kind.
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Ok now I get it. Totally get it. Traced a line to 1661 last night. Late for dinner, called my Mum, bored my son. Am so excited! #Genealogy
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Delighted that after an exciting few weeks as Interim Chief Executive at the amazing @safepassageuk , I’ve been appointed as Chief Executive. Please get in touch if you can support us with any pro bono work, funding or partnerships to reunite refugee children with their families.
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Well that's me in a tweet really! Tune in tomorrow evening.
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To hear Sunday Times celebrate the Rich List, is downright scandalous in a society where foodbank use, child poverty & inequality damage lives daily. Fawning over obscene wealth should shame a nation where most people's wages have decreased in real terms over the past 10 years
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I was due to speak at @LivUni in May, but am boycotting the event in support of the 47 academic staff in Health and Life Sciences who face redundancy. Solidarity @ucu @DrJoGrady
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Absolutely delighted to be an Equalities Advisor on the @MayorofLondon 's London Recovery Taskforce. Very excited to be working with @debs_wb and @Georgia_Gould on economic and social recovery for all Londoners. @FairLondon @equalitytrust
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I’ve read a lot about enslavement and know it’s a part of my family history. But it is something different to see the records, the slave registers, with each name a life, a horrific experience and something only to be imagined. Hundreds of pages of names. Let the work begin.
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As many will know, I have stepped down from leading Black Equity Organisation. It was an immense privilege to work with so many amazing people in our communities. I wish the new CEO, formerly Director of Partnerships, Timi Okuwa, all the best in the battle to dismantle racism.
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@KateSo_ Witches were wise women cooking up herbs, were always women and Wiccans are descended from witches…I could go on.
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Well I ordered my first birth cert from the GRO today...Feeling like a Family Historian! #genealogy #FamilyHistory
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The beauty of family history is that everyone can enjoy it. We need to bust the myths that it’s just posh people tracing their royal connections, we have to open up our collections and resources and we need to meet people where they are. Family history is about who we are.
@FederationFHS
Family History Federation
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Family historians are proud to be inclusive and community-minded, what can we do to make sure genealogy is always for all? Do offer Daniel an answer if you can. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #GenealogyForAll
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So sad and let us remember his name. Thank you for bringing us these stories. We cannot flinch from our histories.
@AfricanArchives
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
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In 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide. He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys. A THREAD!
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Absolutely thrilled!
@EsmeeFairbairn
Esmée Fairbairn
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📢We're thrilled to welcome two new fantastic Trustees to our Board: Professor Claire Alexander and @WandaWyporska 📢 Super excited to have the wealth of their experience, expertise and ideas at Esmée 🎉🎉
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Can't help but think that if even a fraction of the effort / resource that went on telling kids and others to be resilient was channelled into improving society, so that they didn't have to be, then surely that would be better?
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Dear young carers, Today and everyday you are valued, you are doing a fantastic job, often without support. Please dare to dream big dreams and know how we really support you and we understand. You will do great things! From an ex-young carer #youngcarersawarenessday
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This is so cruel. A nine year old boy missing his father. One rule for middle class and celeb drug takers, lauded in the media. Another…well you know how this goes. Suella Braverman refuses plea of man barred from UK to be reunited with son
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Absolutely delighted and proud to have been elected to the @RoyalHistSoc ! Thanks to the wonderful @ppvernon for the nomination. As if that weren’t enough, tomorrow I become CEO of Society of Genealogists. #BlackHistoryMonth2021 is off to a great start for this Black historian!
@RoyalHistSoc
Royal Historical Society
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We're very pleased to welcome 281 new Fellows and Members to @RoyalHistSoc today, following their election by the RHS Council. Congratulations to you all Thanks also to everyone who supports these applications. Your help is essential #twitterstorians
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Looking at the front pages of the media today, you’d be hard pressed to know that hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully through London’s streets yesterday.
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We know that many Black voters will also have been disenfranchised in this way. ⁦ @OpBlackVote ⁩ ⁦ @openDemocracy ⁩ ‘I was denied my right’: voter ID rules a barrier for some in England
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Well people are being turned away at the door for this. I’m really sorry for those who will miss it. I will put a version online ⁦ @SocGenealogists
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So many of my favourite women in one place!
@Mr_Dave_Haslam
Dave Haslam
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Aug 1st 1980, London Debbie Harry of Blondie, Viv Albertine of the Slits, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie & The Banshees, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, #PolyStyrene of X-Ray Spex & Pauline Black of The Selecter. Photo by Michael Putland #inspiring & #incredible people.
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Disagree with guest @BBCWomansHour saying that family history doesn’t really help us with identity. With dna tests, migration, non paternal events, adoption, to name but a few, it can play a strong role in knowing who we are and whose we are. I’ll discuss this @RootsTechConf
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Yes that’s me at Downing Street. Proud, as a daughter of Windrush, to support the victims of #Windrush who still have not received justice. @GlendaCaesar @ppvernon #Justice4Windrush
@guardianopinion
Guardian Opinion
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Post Office victims are promised justice. But as Windrush families know, you can’t trust these politicians | Amelia Gentleman
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I want to honour Absa, a 45 year old enslaved African woman in 1817, Barbados, whose ‘designation’ was drudge.
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I am gutted. My mum texted me the news and says she was in tears. He was just so great. Fierce, gentle, and full of integrity. Rest in Power.
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Ruth Ibegbuna
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I'm just in floods of tears. This guy made a difference. Teaching his poetry to children was magic. He was clever and wise and creative and kind and had deep integrity. I told him last year what a hero he was to me. What a man. 💔
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Someone please tell me it's ok to eat a third mince pie at 630pm because you are struggling to squeeze out the last bit of energy to work on a funding bid on deadline and you still have to walk home afterwards in the dark and wet?
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Do I have to start worrying about making bread again now? Or can I get back to dismantling structural inequalities?
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Rather proud of myself! And huge thanks to ⁦ @icanmakeshoes ⁩, their fabulous teachers and my very fun fellow students!
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Well, a cracking start to my work at @BlackEquityOrg , at a round table addressed and inspired by @TheRevAl , organised by @OpBlackVote and attended by so many individuals, organisations, and politicians.
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It’s been a month. And I’ve cried.
@safepassageuk
Safe Passage 🧡
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We're delighted to announce that Dr. Wanda Wyporska has been appointed as our new permanent CEO, after starting as interim CEO in March. Her excellent experience and passion will be a driving force for Safe Passage. Congratulations, Wanda! 🎉
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@chantellelunt Chantelle, I read this and just wanted to give baby Chantelle and 16 year old you a huge hug. It takes courage to share your story and to do all you've done in life and continue to do. I thought I couldn't admire you more. I was wrong.
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A huge thanks to everyone who has been so supportive on here. I appreciate it massively and will do my best this evening. However, I know that the trolls will out as well, so worth mentioning the great work of @seyiakiwowo and @GlitchUK_
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Early start this morning. Sad to have to comment on yet more preventable deaths in the Channel. #saferoutes
@KayBurley
Kay Burley
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What does @WandaWyporska of @safepassageuk think will deter migrants from coming to the #UK as opposed to the #RwandaBill ? #KayBurley SS
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I could not be happier, in a role that makes a huge difference to refugee families and campaigns for safe routes. Huge thanks to the Board, staff and chair @MagicMagid
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Absolutely overwhelmed and humbled by the love on here. I am absolutely fine, thriving, and looking forward to being available to serve our communities again. So hit me up with opportunities and service for 2024!
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I had the honour of spending time with @GlendaCaesar today and of speaking at the rally. Thanks @DefendWindrush @ppvernon We are united and we are continuing the battle for justice.
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Kimberly McIntosh
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Glenda Caesar gives a moving speech about her experience as a survivor of the Windrush Scandal
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And there it is. Thanks to my wonderful colleagues at @SocGenealogists for a wonderful 18 months. Many c(h)ats, and genealogy discussions, culminating in @RootsTechConf - thank you all. I’ve got a few weeks free when I suspect I’ll be off to @UkNatArchives , you know, for a break!
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If you've woken up to the news that the richest 1000 people in the UK have increased their wealth by nearly 48 billion over the year, and you want to do something about it, then join us and support us @equalitytrust as we launch our #TalkTax campaign to tackle #inequality
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Sigh. @AndrewMarr9 introducing his programme this morning and asking whether ‘identity politics’ has replaced the ‘old politics of class’? Can we please stop this. It’s not either/or it’s both/and. #inequality
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The continuing disgrace of the Home Office scandal. They are literally waiting for our elders to die. All those affected by #PostOffice scandal and others, take note.
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Fury over £1m for firm to sort #Windrush cash as victims die waiting for payout
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Tune in to #bbcqt this evening for all things #Inequality ...
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As usual @JohnAmaechi says it better than I ever could. The master he is.
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Gut punch. The conclusions drawn in the #InstitutionalRacism report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities contradict everything Black and Brown people know, and have experienced, to be true. I fear the repercussions will be devastating. #JediReflections
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Just to get you all excited, we will be looking for a few people to join our team @equalitytrust over the coming month! Keep your eyes peeled if you’re passionate about #inequality and have expertise in comms, research, campaigning and community organising!
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Honestly history programme producers…don’t just take one historian and give them everything. There are loads of us with expertise on subjects out there.
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Working out why children are hungry is not easy says @BBCRadio4 . Actually it is. Not enough money, because wages have stagnated or are insufficient and UC is too low. Health inequalities now added in. Just say it - reduce #inequality .
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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So I don’t have the PM’s mobile number, but I do have some things I’d like him to fix tomorrow - child poverty, our broken social security net, structural inequalities etc. Have you got ideas for @BorisJohnson ? #IllFixItTomorrow
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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I've pledged my support for The Independent Noah Donohoe Investigation Fund – have you? Check it out
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Am seriously considering writing a book entitled ‘elite spaces in which I’ve spoken about #inequality ’. I kid ye not, palaces, Parliament, media, elite universities, banks... they can’t say they don’t know the damage it’s doing. @equalitytrust
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There can be no ‘moving on’ from the Windrush scandal - see my letter for ⁦ @BlackEquityOrg ⁩ here in ⁦ @guardian
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So of course it’s great to see all this enthusiasm for Black people and our achievements today...but I’d really like it to carry on after October 31st please. Black people, not just for Black History Month. #blackhistorymonthuk
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Can I just make it clear that when Priti Patel says ‘the Great British public wants/expects’ - she does not speak for me. #NotPritisPublic
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Refugee relief charity appoints interim leader
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Extraordinarily stressed and vigilant? How racism makes people physically ill - weathering - if you don’t know the term, you will recognise the symptoms.
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Be weary of the falling for the ‘deserving immigrant’ narrative, focus on our common humanity, I caution here in @LexyTopping ⁩ article. Emma Raducanu victory sparks debate over multiculturalism in the UK
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@CellyRanks From a former young carer, single parent family, working class Northerner Black woman Dr to you, I send the highest congratulations for all that you have achieved and will go on to achieve. 👏🏽💪🏽👍🏽
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Great to see @equalitytrust stats used here. Britain is run by a self-serving clique. That’s why it’s in crisis
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Starting 2022 by thanking wonderful communities of family historians, genealogists, local and social historians, who care about all our histories. We cannot know who we are, unless we know where we came from. Many of us have been told we have no history. Let's find it together!
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If only each of us had a relative of this age! #Genealogy #familyhistory
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@krishgm @MarcusRashford @FareShareUK But child poverty, poverty and hunger are systemic issues arising largely from poverty pay, an inadequate social security system, huge inequality and structural inequalities. We should need neither government nor charities nor the generosity of the public to feed children.
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Another proud step in my journey in genealogy and family history. My uncle asked me to try to find his grandfather and so Friday evening was a bit of a distraction of whatsapp and parish registers...this is the rest of my life isn't it?!!!
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When I was a kid I couldn’t believe that you could go to a palace of books and choose some to take home. Then I spent years of my life in libraries as a reader and they nourished me as a writer. Libraries let all of us dream and poor kids grow. @CILIPinfo
'Do we really need it?' Council leader questions library service after months of closure
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Beautifully said.
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"History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all." ~Laurence Overmire
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Congratulations to @Zubhaque who takes over as Executive Director @equalitytrust . Wonderful choice.
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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@__garbo__ @RebeccaRideal Oh hospitals I haven't tried thank you! Her friends reported to @mossos and we have also been in touch with Policia national as well I think, and the FCO and @cheshirepolice have been in touch. @INTERPOL_HQ @Interpol please assist.
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence was a pivotal point in my life growing up. The disgrace is that 30 years later justice has not been served and the Met can’t admit to institutional racism. Privileged but sad to have met and worked with Doreen and Neville. #StephenLawrence30
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Let’s not forget that this election victory owes a lot to good old fashioned organising. People rolling up their sleeves, going out door to door, posting leaflets, getting on the phones and having millions of conversations. Here’s to the unsung heroes of this victory. Thank you.
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This is their everyday. This is our children’s everyday.
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
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“They definitely don't have a clue how it impacts us.” Jamar Powell will receive 'substantial’ damages after a Metropolitan Police stop and search aged 16 where he says he had a taser put to his neck. He tells @RiaChatter he wants a face to face apology from the Met.
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Sigh. Discussion of women on boards, non-execs etc all about the private sector, can we have some discussion of charities @BBCWomansHour - there are amazing women in our sector, leading organisations and on boards.
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Wow, just thrilled to have @100blackbritons in my hands! Was honoured to be a judge and beyond delighted to see my blurb there. @ppvernon @angburger27 you are amazing! @DavidOlusoga
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Listen to fantastic @JohnAmaechi @BBCRadio4 now and be schooled. His patience is superb and politely says, 'if Black people keep being shot in the back, then this will keep on happening. There's something traumatising about seeing someone being murdered for looking like you.'
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Shot their child. Black Lives Matter. We will not stop saying this.
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A family in Kansas City is demanding answers after a white man shot their Black child in the head when he accidentally rang the doorbell of the wrong home, and then shot him again The man was taken to police station to make a statement and then released
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And my mum and dad in 1971… thanks to these wonderful pioneers!
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Alison Lowe OBE
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My mum and dad experienced something similar in 1961, but they were able to marry because you and Jake laid the foundations. Thank you #pioneers #LoveNotHate
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Well it's been a long week, as ever in the sector but this has made me laugh, cry and grin like a Cheshire cat...
@Social_CEOs
Social CEOs
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Congratulations to @WandaWyporska for winning the Best Social CEO Award 2020!
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So today I was pitchside with the amazing @emmahayes1 and legend @rachelyankey11 - #fangirl ! In tribute to Sid Hayes, who did so much for girl’s and women’s football. And founded Regents Park League. #Honoured
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Great to know that my workshop on finding women in the archives tomorrow morning is fully booked. Will make the 8 am start slightly less painful.
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Wonderful to hear @BlackEquityOrg trustee @DavidOlusoga calmly, patiently and expertly explaining why we need the truth about the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade to rightly point the way to action, highlighting reparative work. I wish everyone could listen to his words on @BBCr4today .
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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Peerage snub for top black bishop John Sentamu. A powerful reminder that as high as we rise, we still face racism. Proud of ⁦ @JohnSentamu ⁩, a man who fights #inequalities , speaks out for the oppressed & lives his values. Let’s show this man our love.
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Why social mobility is a red herring....and a bit of witchcraft. Social Mobility and Inequality: A Dance With The Devil? | Wanda Wyporska... via @YouTube
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Government accused of warm words but little action on racial inequality plan | The Independent See my comment for ⁦ @BlackEquityOrg ⁩ ⁦ @JemimaOlchawski ⁩ ⁦ @fawcettsociety ⁩ and ⁦ @Halima_Begum ⁩ ⁦ @RunnymedeTrust
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Dr Wanda Wyporska 🇧🇧🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿FRHistS
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First interview as new Chief Executive of @BlackEquityOrg was always going to be with @TheVoiceNews . Thanks @LesterJHolloway
@TheVoiceNews
The Voice Newspaper
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Dr Wanda Wyporska, appointed today as head of @BlackEquityOrg , talks about her life’s journey @WandaWyporska
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