
The founder of the UK’s first major Black children’s magazine has now opened a journalism school. Students of The Cocoa School of Journalism and Creative Arts, which opened in April, will be recording videos, carrying out interviews and writing articles during next month’s Notting Hill Carnival, says Serlina Boyd. During the Easter holidays, some 30 students aged between five and 17 were coached to write their own stories without any other forms of tech. The school launched its second course in May. Cocoa Girl began in 2020 as a pandemic project with Serlina’s daughter Faith, who is now 10. Its first issue sold more than 11,000 copies. Subsequent editions are now being distributed to schools and families across the UK. The team has also run 20 free journalism and writing workshops in schools.
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