'It's frightening. I live in Hackney & don't drive so I find myself, at weekends, popping on a bus or even walking more places than most MPs. I'm a single woman & that makes me vulnerable anyway. But to hear someone talking like this is worrying.'
We need to protect Diane Abbott

Happy #EssexDay everyone #StCeddsDay The Black Essex Flag by Elsa James at Beecroft Art Gallery

🏆 Our final BBC Essex Make A Difference Award goes to… Corrina Hayzelden! 🏆

She wins the ‘Together’ award for setting up multiple community groups in the Hockley area. United In Kind

Hear Corrina’s full story: bbc.in/3sn9e00

#BBCMakeADifference

Artist and activist ELSA JAMES chose Corrina Hayzelden as her winner for the 'Together' category at the BBC Essex Make A Difference Awards.

Elsa paid tribute to Corrina's 'generosity and caring nature'. #BBCMakeADifference United In Kind

More: bbc.in/3ProFfF

Black parents often look on with fear that our children get overlooked. But this heartbreaking scene is so distressing & hard to understand that I've written to #GymnasticsIreland , like many of you, for an explanation. Let's do something for this aspiring & beautiful gymnast.

In 2023, we invited Essex-based artiste and activist Elsa James to respond to our London, Sugar and Slavery gallery with a disruptive intervention.

Want to see how it went? Find out here
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About tonight… some images from our special VIP reception for ELSA JAMES & the installation of her work “Ode to David Lammy MP” prior to a full house for Pegasus Opera Company’s #Windrush75 Celebration Concert! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
#windrush #WindrushGeneration #bgac #elsajames David Lammy

WINDRUSH 75
Elsa James' 'Ode to David Lammy'
FREE, Sat 24 June - Mon 30 Oct 2023

Contemporary artwork by artist ELSA JAMES, ‘Ode to David Lammy MP’, inspired by the MP response to the Windrush scandal.

Find out more about our Windrush 75 programme: ow.ly/K2aA50OLhFg

This is a brilliant discussion. London's future is being formed right now in its ex-industrial outer suburbs and in south Essex, and the panel ably sum up its dangers and joys.

Modernist Essex (Silver End)/Postmodernist Essex (ELSA JAMES)

Four go mad on Essex - Tim Burrows Dan Taylor ELSA JAMES and Simon Heffer on BBC Free Thinking bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

See the incredible RITES OF PASSAGE Gagosian #London until April 29th. Curated by Péjú Oshin Featuring works by ELSA JAMES asiko Phoebe Boswell victor ehikhamenor Adelaide Damoah @EnamGDesigns and more.
#BlackStar #blackart #blackjoy #art #exhibition #africanart

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Catch Elsa James' work showing as part of the group exhibition, ‘Rites of Passage’, at Gagosian Gallery. Curated by Péjú Oshin, the exhibition features work by nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration. Until 29th April. More information below.

A blue plaque has been unveiled in Southend to commemorate the first black woman in the UK to take part in a beauty contest.

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