Say it loud, black and proud!

"THE revolution will not be televised, the revolution is now."
(Gil Scott-Heron: 1970).

TRUE, although I watched it unfold on the small-screen, and am still blissfully glued to it now.

It began on Sunday with the first ever black Formula One world champion, and continued with a landslide victory for the first US African-American President.

Chicago or Sao Paulo, may have been thousands of miles away, but as I scurried around the streets of Reading trying to cut my teeth as a trainee journo, I couldn't help feeling a part of it...

This week was a great moment to be a young black (mixed race) male.
Inspire before you expire: anything is possible...

(To be continued)