Two catering lecturers from the College of West Anglia’s Wisbech campus will be showcasing their skills in the upcoming series of Channel 4’s Bake Off: The Professionals.
Bake Off: The Professionals Norfolk contestants, Alex and Stacey.
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A pair of Norfolk bakers have been chosen as the first to leave Channel 4 s newest season of Bake Off: The Professionals.
Alex Harrison and Stacey Martin, who both work as lecturers at The College of West Anglia in King s Lynn, appeared on the Bake Off: The Professionals on Tuesday, May 25.
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Alex Harrison and Stacey Martin, who both work as lecturers at The College of West Anglia in King s Lynn, appeared on the Bake Off: The Professionals on Tuesday, May 25.
For their first challenge, the team had to produce two different types of miniature classics, Tarte Piemontaise and the Jaffa Cake in just three and a half hours.
Motivational speaker and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam discussed his time incarcerated and his spiritual motivation during a Family Action Network event Thursday.
Salaam was wrongfully convicted and later exonerated in the 1989 Central Park jogger case , in which he and four other then-teenage boys were accused of assaulting a woman.
He recently published his memoir “Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,” which details his upbringing and the lessons he learned from his fight for exoneration. The event was held in conversation with Reuben Jonathan Miller, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.
Family Focus Evanston honored residents and organizations during its annual benefit event Thursday.
The event, themed “Evanston’s Black Heroes,” featured students from Family Focus’s after-school program who performed biographies of prominent Black Evanston residents from both the past and present.
Family Focus President and CEO Dara Munson said she is proud of the role that the organization plays in supporting Evanston’s Black community. Its Evanston center has operated out of 2010 Dewey Ave. for over 40 years, serving as a central point of resources and programming for the 5th Ward. Family Focus has since expanded, adding six other centers across the Chicago area.
Community leaders from Evanston and Chicago discussed the history of redlining, fair housing policy and how these issues connect to reparations in a public forum Thursday.
The forum was hosted by Open Communities, an Evanston-based non-profit housing agency focused on fair housing, and was moderated by Shorefront Legacy Center founder Dino Robinson. Panelists looked at housing discrimination through the lens of politics, religion, and business and included Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) and Black Coalition for Housing Executive Director Courtney Jones.
Rue Simmons said Evanston’s initial reparations program aims to redress discriminatory housing policies. Evanston’s Restorative Housing Program will distribute grants of up to $25,000 to 16 qualifying families to fund down payments, mortgage assistance or home repairs. The decision to center housing in the initial reparations program came from Evanston stakeholders’ feedback during community meetings, according to Rue Simmons.