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The ITV programme Stephen Lawrence: Has Britain Changed felt like deja vu on race relations discussions in Britain over the last decade. Things are bad, nothing has changed, but we have hope for the future. When are we going to change this broken record?
Continue ReadingHave you noticed how black beauty and hair products seem to be more prominent in TV adverts lately? Is this a sign that black people and black beauty is finally being acknowledged by the mainstream media? More importantly, is all this sudden attention genuine?
Continue ReadingProminent British historian David Starkey, has been dropped by his publisher and forced to resign from his honorary position at Cambridge University after comments he made referring to African slavery, but how has these measures addressed racism we have to ask ourselves?
Continue ReadingWith the LGBT marches in London and New York bringing attention to racism within that movement and the sacking of Labour MP, Rebecca Long-Bailey for anti-semitism, despite the fact that Israel has itself been accused of racism towards its own Ethiopian-Jewish community, it can be argued that political correctness is dangerous for democracy and free […]
Continue ReadingShaun King, a prominent activist and writer has controversially called for the destruction of all European statues of Jesus, stating that they perpetuate the ideology of white supremacy. Is this the end of Colonial Christianity?
Continue ReadingThe coronavirus report by Public Health England looking into the reasons why people from BAME backgrounds were four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than the general population, would have arguably been disappointing to fallen NHS heroes, Milton Hanson and Rosie Purves, who witnessed the brutality of racism in the NHS first hand.
Continue ReadingMarcus Rashford’s victory against the Conservative government on free school meal vouchers is an inspiration for black voters looking to influence parliamentary decisions through the sheer strength of numbers.
Continue ReadingWith all the focus on racism in the mainstream media at the moment discussing black mental health has never been more important, especially in light of the statistics that Black people are more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. It’s time to talk!
Continue ReadingDemolishing statues of once revered British Empire builders and slave traders will probably give the perpetrators a temporary sense of victory over racism and the establishment but in the grand scheme of things the statue of of British and indeed Western economic dominance remains steadfast and untouched.
Continue ReadingNike, Lucasfilm, Apple and Lego are just a few of the many companies lending their support to the Black Lives Matter protests all over the world following the death of 46 year-old George Floyd however, the founding pioneers of the civil rights movement would be mortified to see the black civil rights movement being used […]
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