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Huge hand-painted mural celebrating inspirational community leader unveiled at Co-op Leeds University franchise store

Posted on 23rd November 202124th November 2021 by Alex Gibbon

A portrait of Leeds Uni Alumni and Founder of Free Black University has been painted on the storefront of Co-op Leeds University Franchise Store, to celebrate the contribution and achievements of Black community leaders who have helped to shape society across the UK

Kipling proves hard to swallow: The ifs and buts of Kipling

Posted on 3rd September 201828th March 2019 by Phoebe Thompson

This summer, students at the University of Manchester painted over a mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ and replaced it with Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’. They argued that Kipling’s poetry ‘de-humanises people of colour’. […]