Trina Tuthill
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Journlaist and radio presnter, podcast host - Passionate about social justice, feminism, family issues, culture, and music opinions and reviews.
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Trap King Chrome
The troubled life of controversial Bradley Obami, 28, known as Trap King Chrome. Rapper Bradley spoke about his troubled life and being deported from the U.K. at the age of 17. For a robbery, he committed when he was just 13-years-old. He mentioned he got involved with the wrong crowd as a rebellious teenager. He voiced the traumatic experience it had on his family.
By Trina Tuthill5 years ago in The Swamp
Why some people decide to travel the world alone and the beauty of it.
Travelling around the U.K. or any other country can be a very liberating, happy yet challenging, and sometimes lonely thing to do. It does not matter if you are with your family or a solo traveller.
By Trina Tuthill5 years ago in Humans
Flint Water Crises
In Flint Michigan officials try to save money by changing the city’s water source. But instead, danger public health in 2014 when they changed the water system and did not put the correct infrastructure in place, when the city switched it is drinking water supply from Detroit’s system to the Flint River - in a cost-saving move. The bad decisions and neglect have led widespread suffrage to the residents of Flint, including Lead poisoning. Due to improperly treated water from the Flint River which was allowed lead to leach from the pipes.
By Trina Tuthill5 years ago in The Swamp
Two men tested positive for Covid-19 after the controversial flight to Jamaica
By Trina Dawes The UK is planning another mass deportation to Jamaica on the 2nd of December. There are cries of institutionalized racism as these some of these men have not had access to due process and an immigration advice. There were over 50 people scheduled to be deported to their home countries. However, with appeals from immigration lawyers and human rights lawyers, there were only 13 people deported on the charter flight. More than 35 people on the flight were granted last minute reprieve.
By Trina Tuthill5 years ago in The Swamp
What is it like to move to the UK not speaking English as a child.
Throughout the world, many people pick up and leave, bringing their children with them to another country where they do not speak the language. In which the children who are making these life-changing journeys in a crucial time in their school years.
By Trina Tuthill5 years ago in Education
The BLM movement should not be a faze
Has social media and society woken to the injustice faced by black people who become statistics of police brutality? The Edward Colston statue was taken down and replaced with the protestor Jen Reid after she was photographed standing on the plinth during the protests.
By Trina Tuthill5 years ago in The Swamp
Children's Homes, Foster Care, and the Social Care System. Creating Already Damaged Children into Even More Damaged Adults
After hearing Alex Wheatle's story about his time in a Lambeth children's home in the 1970s, he wrote a book called Brixton Rock, where he told his heart-breaking childhood in a care home where he was racially, sexually, and physically abused my the staff member's at the care home.
By Trina Tuthill6 years ago in The Swamp
We Most Stop Blaming Parents for Gang Culture
I enjoy having conversations with other parents and non-parents about gang culture and the problematic rise in crime in London. I am a former Londoner who has moved out of London. And with no willingness to return for the safety of my son. I grew up in the 90s so I am not that much older than many of the teenage gang members in London today. It has been reported that 6 percent of 10 to 19 year olds belong to a gang in England and Whales. Gang culture researcher Keir Irwin Rogers said that "there was 9,000 stabbing in London alone last year - 2017."
By Trina Tuthill7 years ago in Criminal
