Butterfly Magazine - Issue 43 - 18th June 2021

Jamaican Fathers in different ways

All Black Women’s Rowing Team Makes History

Idris Elba:

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YOUR FUTURE in conjunction with

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Editor’s desk Don’t Kill Your Future – Black Media Wake UP! Well said, Idris. It is time for the Black media fraternity in the UK to wake up. The screen subconsciously controls us, be it advertising, drama or sport. Let’s look at drama - from Luther, Bulletproof, Top Boy, Black Mirror, I May Destroy You, Chewing Gum, Small Axe – Lover’s Rock, Anne Boleyn, to Famalan. Some of these are inaccurate representations of our values and who we are as Black people – especially those of Caribbean heritage.

We know that we create and perform to the Gatekeepers’ agenda that is not our own; therefore, our stories are not told authentically. Our success is on social media, but even there, we tend to replicate the stereotypes we see on the screen, not our authentic story. Some documentaries, The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files, succeed in revealing our history and the wrongs we have and continue to suffer without real solutions.

The other challenge is working together collaborating to get the stories out there. We don’t have to wait on them! Too many celebrities, having secured their piece of the pie, can’t, not won’t create meaningful, permanent opportunities for the next generation or even their peers to secure their future for fear of upsetting the Gatekeepers. So, it’s all about joining competitions or Writers’ Rooms to get a foothold.

Some companies like TriForce Productions have pushed open the door with ‘Sorry, I Didn’t Know’, a Black History Quiz Show in recent times, and we encourage them to continue to push harder. An excellent series like Dreaming Whilst Black on BBC III should have been mainstream. Still, our young people need more positive stories on the screen about their lives to stop the carnage on our streets with knife crimes, drugs, guns, and the alarming disappearance of Black children.

Entertainers, scriptwriters, producers, we can do better!

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The Unwanted The Secret Windrush Files

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Black History

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How will you be Celebrating Windrush Day 2021?

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indrush Day 2021 will soon be upon us. We want to highlight all of the events and activities that will be happening across the UK to celebrate and educate the day and the generation that has been all 42 that have been funded by the government’s Windrush Grant Scheme and all of those others. Please go out support those events listed here but also listen and look out for others in your local area and go and support them b telling our friends and families. We need to keep the focus on the day and getting wider recognition and understanding not just from the Caribbean community but all communities in the UK about the Windrush Generation and their contribution to our country.

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Go support all of the projects if you can or those in your area, those that resonate with you in fact if you can please support them all even if it’s just visiting/following them online and reaching out to them.

We need to support one another and our communities as a whole. Remember, people are stronger together.

We need to support one another so that Windrush Day truly becomes embedded in the national conscience up and down the country, so all people not just those of the Caribbean diaspora so we continue to honour and recognise the outstanding resilience, creativity and innovation of Caribbeans then and now.

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Fatherhood

Left to right: Ryan Grant, Marvin Thompson, David McDonald, Kemoy Whyte

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embers of the Jamaican rugby team take time out from training to chill and celebrate fatherhood.

Ryan ’Nashy’ Grant is a teacher at St Catherine Primary School. He is father to all of his students and talks about them continuously as proud fathers do.

Kemoy Whyte, husband, father to his little princess Rhea-Marie aged 61/2 is an entrepreneur and boldly set up a new cleaning business during lockdown to start building a legacy for her.

David McDonald, HR and IT specialist, is the uncle that fathers all the children around him sharing his love of wrestling and cars unashamedly.

Marvin Thompson, husband, and devoted Godfather to Henri-Nicole age 5 in training for when he becomes a dad.

Henri-Nicole holds on tight to grandfather John Messam

For all the Fathers - Blessings Biological Fathers, Absent Fathers, The Father I never knew, StepFather, Adopted Fathers, Borrowed Fathers, The Mother who Fathered Me, Single Fathers, Disabled Dads, the Siblings who Fathered, Godfathers, Estranged Fathers, Foster Fathers, Fathers – Gone but never forgotten, Stand in Fathers, Grandfathers, Great Grandfathers.

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Caleb Cooper with greatgranddaughter Henri-Nicole

Our elders by Thea Wray

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Fatherhood Credit: Netflix

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Strain

At the hospital, the doctor informs the family that he has Sickle Cell Disease.

His parents are confused because only one of them is a carrier of the sickle cell gene.

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Affirming Black Manhood Credit: ShakaRaSpeaks

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Black or White

This movie is a look at two seemingly different worlds, in which nothing is as simple as black or white. ... Once Eloise’s African American grandmother, Rowena comes into the picture, all hell breaks loose as a bitter custody battle ensues.

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New Black Daddy Credit: ShakaRaSpeaks

Biden Signs Juneteenth Bill Credit:Reuters

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The Sunset Limited

Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men – a deeply religious black ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor (Tommy Lee Jones) who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train. Credit: Prime Video

Juneteenth Kweli.tv

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Genius Aretha

Don’t miss Academy-Award Nominee Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin in the third season of the critically acclaimed global anthology series. Credit: Joblo TV trailers

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Fathers’ Day: These Black Dads Share Their Experiences BBC Stories

Respect

RESPECT Official Trailer (2020) Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Biopic Movie HD Credit One Media Transform your viewing...

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BLACK DADS Credit:Black Baby Goals

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Fayida’s Black History in 60 Seconds

Angelo Soliman: Austria’s African Freemason

All Black Women’s Rowing Team Makes History This team of five made history as the first all-black women’s rowing team to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Team Antigua began its journey off the coast of Africa and were on the water for more than 47 days before reaching the finish line in Antigua, rowing a total of 3,000 miles. The women rowed in two-hour shifts while at sea, giving their teammates time to rest. The women beat the odds in more ways than one, having only nine months to prepare for the journey while other teams had trained for two years. Credit:BlackHistoryWalks Transform your viewing...

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Discarded

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Laughter

My Wife’s rules Only apply to Me - Relatable

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Understanding The Wife Code

Shake the Bottle

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Last Word

Happy Fathers’ Day