Why Black Ballad Is Taking Over HuffPost UK
(World News UK)

For a long time Black British mothers were invisible. We weren’t in the adverts for nappies or follow-on milk, we weren’t in the parenting magazines or modelling maternity wear on the high street. Our experiences only existed in private conversations in the comfort of living rooms, around cosy kitchen tables or in hushed tones in the sensory room at the local soft play centre. The internet and social media opened things up and we started looking for ourselves, reading each other’s blogs and tracking the highs and lows on Facebook and Instagram. Then a shocking study came out that confirmed many of the suspicions that arose from whispered anecdotes: we were four – no...