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We've got news 🙌🏾 Introducing our new AI-powered Media Bias Checker: Helping You Consume and Create Better Stories! We’re excited to introduce our Media Bias Checker - an AI-powered tool to challenge harmful media narratives about Black people and empower others to do the same! Building on the success of our 2020 Media Reporting Tool, this innovation uses AI to detect anti-Black bias and negative tropes in articles. Simply input an article and the tool will analyse it in seconds, making it easier to hold publishers to account. This groundbreaking tool also enables users to review their own writing to avoid unintentionally using negative stereotypes or unconscious bias. By acting as both a detection and learning resource, it will help us all create fairer stories and more empowering narratives. The tool is currently only available to a select group of users. Please get in touch if you’d like to be among the first to know when it’s released more widely.

Wow, wow, wow! What a night! ✨ Thank you so much to everyone who came to our “Reclaiming Narratives” Black Stories Screening! The hugest well done to our ten awesome mobile storytellers Abs, Bukola, Judith, Mary, Omowumi, Stevina, Kerwin, Precious, Verona, and Vilma. Massive thanks to our incredible partner MAST Mayflower Studios. Thank you so much to our keynote speaker, Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE, Editor of Black History Month UK magazine. And well done to our founder, Veronica Gordon for being a fabulous host. Here’s a recap of the evening in four minutes. Thanks so much to Siontai G. for interviewing our audience. Enjoy! Follow Our Version Media CIC to support our work amplifying Black voices and changing the narrative. #mobilestorytelling #communitymedia #empoweringcommunities #ourvoicesourstories #smartphonefilmmaking Music: Travelling Backsound by Satarabasna

If you haven’t met Wumi yet, she’s our awesome new Business Development Assistant intern! She joined us in September from the University of Southampton and is a great addition to the team. Last week she did her first ever radio interview and, in true Wumi style, she was brilliant! She and our founder, Veronica, went to BBC Radio Solent to chat about our upcoming “Reclaiming Narratives” Black Stories Screening. Wumi is one of the local people taking part, whose story will be shared on the big screen. It’s THIS Thursday btw - at MAST Mayflower Studios so we hope you’ve got your ticket! Get it here if you haven’t: https://lnkd.in/eva_5kQf Then, join us on Thursday to find out more about Wumi. Watch her’s and other real-life stories, that will each tackle a negative Black narrative. Thanks BBC Radio Solent for having us! #EmpoweringCommunities #OurVoicesOurStories #BlackHistoryMonth #MobileStorytelling #ReclaimingNarratives

They’re here! 100 copies of the official Black History Month UK magazine! 📦 📦 Get your complimentary copy if you're coming to our “Reclaiming Narratives” Black Stories Screening at MAST Mayflower Studios on Thursday (31st October). It's our special gift to our guests. It’s packed with articles to educate and inspire, that’ll last long beyond BHM 2024. Not got your ticket yet? Book now https://lnkd.in/eva_5kQf

There is the SWEETEST exhibition at MAST Mayflower Studios right now. It’s old family photos from Southampton’s Windrush community. It’s so beautiful that some say it brought tears to their eyes and had their hearts overflowing with love. This lovely couple is our founder’s parents. They were teenagers in their photo. They’ve been married for 49 years. They came to Southampton when they were just children. Him from Jamaica. Her from Trinidad. They met, fell in love, and got married right here in Southampton. Theirs is just one of the photos on display. If you’re coming to our “Reclaiming Narratives” event on Thursday (31st), take the time to view this heartwarming exhibition while you’re here. Or pop into MAST anytime. Have you seen it yet? If yes, what did you think?

Mark the last day of Black History Month 2024 with an unforgettable evening of powerful Black stories. 🎬 Please join us for our annual showcase of real-life Black stories, made-using-mobile, by people from across Hampshire. 💛 Plus, meet old friends and make new ones in our Welcome Reception at 6:30pm, before the screening starts at 7pm. ✊🏾 See how Our Version Media is empowering our communities and amplifying Black voices through digital media. 📣 With keynote speaker, Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE, Editor, Black History Month UK magazine 👊🏾 Don’t miss this inspiring close to this year's Black History Month in Southampton, at MAST Mayflower Studios, on Thursday 31st October. 🎥 Here’s what the audience said about our last stories screening. Limited seats remaining. Book now: https://lnkd.in/eNBArsp6

Children from fatherless homes. Nigerian cheats. Black men. Black Jews don’t exist. Aggressive or assertive Black woman. Those are just some of the narratives that will be challenged at our “Reclaiming Narratives” Black Stories Screening at MAST Mayflower Studios on Thursday 31st October. Don't miss our annual showcase of real-life Black stories. Each short story, made-using-mobile, by the individuals themselves. With keynote speaker Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE, Editor, Black History Month UK magazine. Join us at 6:30pm for a Welcome Reception from, before the screening starts at 7pm. Get your ticket now: https://lnkd.in/eva_5kQf

The theme for this year’s Black History Month is “Reclaiming Narratives” something we do every day, all year round, here at Our Version Media. It’s something we’ve been doing since we were founded in 2019. Come and experience our impact at our annual BHM event, where we showcase real-life stories, made by real people. This awesome group has just learned the art of creating, filming and editing personal stories - all using their smartphone. Now they’re putting their new skills to the test by creating the mobile videos for our “Reclaiming Narratives” Black Stories screening. Each story will challenge a negative Black narrative head-on. Join us at MAST Mayflower Studios on Thursday, 31st October, from 6:30pm to watch their stories on the big screen. Book your tickets now https://lnkd.in/e_hskGZD #empoweringcommunities #mobilestorytelling #reclaimingnarratives #blackhistorymonth

Don't miss our annual showcase of real-life Black stories, made-using-mobile, by people from across Hampshire. We're super happy to be welcoming Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE, the editor of the UK's official Black History Month magazine, as our keynote speaker. This event promises to be an empowering and inspiring close to this year's Black History Month in Southampton. Book your ticket now and join us for a Welcome Reception from 6:30pm, before the screening starts at 7pm. Special gift for our guests: Get a complimentary copy of the official BHM UK magazine! It's packed with articles and content to educate, inspire and entertain, that'll last long beyond BHM 2024. Book: https://lnkd.in/eva_5kQf #ReclaimingNarratives #OurVoicesOurStories #MobileStorytelling #MobileStorytellers #CommunityJournalism #EmpoweringCommunities #EachOneTeachOne #BlackHistoryMonth2024

We’re excited to announce Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE as keynote speaker for our “Reclaiming Narratives” Black Stories Screening event! Cherron, an acclaimed author and consultant is Editor-in-Chief of the Black History Month UK Magazine. She’s an advocate for change, dedicating her career to uplifting voices and creating spaces for underrepresented communities to thrive. Join us to see real stories from Southampton’s Black communities and to hear Cherron’s insights on the power of reclaiming narratives to challenge stereotypes and empower our communities!💛 🗓 Thursday, 31st October 2024 🕢 6:30pm to 8pm 📍 MAST Mayflower Studios 🎟 Book your ticket: https://lnkd.in/e2P3cU9B