Malcolm MacLean

Tonight at 6.30! ‘Roy Francis: Wales’ Black Leader in a White World’ - the story of the pioneer of rugby coaching - available on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Sounds
#RugbyLeague #BlackHistory #Wales
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The beloved Anas Al-Sharif has been murdered by the brutal occupation. We are out of words. We are beyond heartbroken. The longer we fail to stop this, the more humans will be murdered.

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.

Hmmmm I wonder if there's another term for a "final operation plan" that will take a bunch of people from their homes and move them to camps. It's on the tip of my tongue

Sporty spice: how romance fiction is adding a new dynamic to sports fandom Romance novels are on the rise – but what has that got to do with sports?

Sport and spice and all things nice! 🩷 📚 ⚽ 🏒
Some reflections from me in @aunz.theconversation.com on the rise of #SportsRomance fiction and why sports should pay attention to the growth in fans connecting to sport in diverse and different ways.
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“Jewish safety” has become the West’s shield for genocide in Palestine, argues Alana Lentin. The myth isn’t ‘weaponized’—it’s always been about protecting white supremacy. Essential read on how antisemitism discourse props up Zionist violence ⬇️ mondoweiss.net/2025/07/agai...

So much cringeworthy virtue-signaling by enablers. Sorry not sorry but we do not accept your rehabilitation tour with discourse. Actions trumps discourse. Act now.

According to the latest food security analysis, 2 out of the 3 famine thresholds have now been breached in parts of #Gaza.

Everyone is experiencing Emergency levels of hunger or worse. ⬇️ Read more ⬇️

🚨A few days left to submit an application to be the next European regional Academic Editor for @ijhs.bsky.social - Aug 6 deadline. Application details ⬇️ #sporthistory #skystorians

Next, stop killing union jobs! Last month, Next shut down their only unionised factory in Sri Lanka overnight, leaving 1,416 workers without jobs. Next, stop killing union jobs!

WhileNext continue to outperform their own forecasts, they nevertheless cite unprofitability when sacking over 1400 of their own workers! The math is simply not math-ing!
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I just got an email informing me that my Annual Review on structural racism with @tyson-brown.bsky.social and @pahoman.bsky.social is open access. So, download away.

The deadly risk of trying to reach food in Gaza An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.

. @npr.org is one of the only US national news organizations that still has a reporter inside Gaza, Anas Baba, and he keeps reporting even though he himself is starving. This piece is unbelievably powerful.
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts For decades, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has served as one of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, from 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s to a ...

For decades, the Amistad Research Center in NOLA has served as 1 of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, featuring a collection of 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s, as well as a fine art collection. Its future is uncertain. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

The programme for our new biennial conference, held at the University of Leicester from 4th to 5th September 2025 is now available: urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

One like, one history opinion

1. Read the introduction, conclusion and endnotes first - in that order

Flour Flour. A one kilo bag. £25. After three hours searching. To feed a household now of hundreds. The lucky ones.

Flour

#israelisstarvinggaza

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

"One of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories"
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This is after Tuvalu has already created a digital version in the knowledge that this was coming. The climate catastrophe isn’t a future scenario, but the reality of today. Polluting nations and corporations shielded from their harm when that was never possible for Tuvalu must act.

www.tuvalu.tv

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

As of this moment BDS is disrupting 3 military shipments to genocidal Israel.

The BDS movement calls on supporters to peacefully and courageously #BlockTheBoat.

End maritime military and dual-use transfers to Israel for use its genocide.

Stop the #GenocideFleet

Middle East crisis live: Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN agencies say Supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food will be depleted by mid-August if nothing changes, says Unicef

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. By Hana Kiros

Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.

Gaza faces 'man-made' mass starvation due to Israeli aid blockade, World Health Organization says Israel denies it is responsible for shortages of food - but aid groups have accused its government of creating "chaos, starvation, and death".

“Israel denies it is responsible for shortages of food.”

Israel would deny its own mother.

Yet all right thinking people know Israel has engineered this famine.

We’ve known it for over 18- months now.

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ALEX DE WAAL: So, let me say that I've been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

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650 days of livestreamed genocide. I will never forgive the politicians who have made us watch so many children blown up and countless people beg for money to avoid starvation. These politicians must be driven from public life and never allowed to show their wretched faces again.

650 days of livestreamed genocide. I will never forgive the politicians who have made us watch so many children blown up and countless people beg for money to avoid starvation. These politicians must be driven from public life and never allowed to show their wretched faces again.

2025 marks the 100th birthday of several of my ideological heroes, although none of them made it:

Malcolm X turned 100.
Medgar Evers turned 100
Robert F Williams turned 100.
Patrice Lumumba turned 100

And today, the ever influential Frantz Fanon would've turned 100.

#1925
#BlackHistory

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.

This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.

We are doing this and history will never forgive us.

Gaza:

Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern" of violence against Indigenous people who oppose corporate human rights abuses.

Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals.

The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern against people who speak out against business-related human rights" abuses.

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#Indigenous #Climate #HumanRights #Environment

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.

A call to academic institutions and leaders, worldwide.

An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.

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