Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

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Swamba has since helped set up the Local Equality Commission, which works to combat racial and economic inequality in rural communities. “My role is a mentorship programmer,” she says. “I want to create an environment where people can be supported in various disciplines and have their voices heard on all matters of interest.” Police strip searched nearly 3,000 children between 2018 and mid-2022It confirms just how badly our children are being failed by the the police AND as young as eight strip-searched by police. Author Reni Eddo-Lodge won the Jhalak Prize in 2018 for her book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, which has appeared on many lists as a resource for white readers to use to educate themselves. Her podcast About Race, from that same year, features interviews with figures in anti-racist activism in the UK, including Diane Abbott and Ra’ed Khan, to explore the history of race in the UK and how it leads to our society and its politics now. The Metropolitan Police firearms officer charged (September 2023) with murdering Chris Kaba will be named, the Old Bailey has decided. Mr Kaba, 24, died after being shot in a police operation in Streatham, south London, last year. A judge dismissed concerns about the "real and immediate risk" to the officer, named only as NX121, if his identity was made public. - was also the year of the Windrush scandal. Poems in Granta by Vahni Capildeo reflect on the events, while Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, head of editorial at the aforementioned gal-dem magazine, edited the collection Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children.

Feb 2023 - Five people including three girls aged 10 to 16 have been arrested, with police seeking a sixth girl age 15yrs to come forward, as they appeal for witnesses.Stennett says when history is taught well, it has a positive influence on BAME pupils. “People feel seen where they were not seen before,” she adds. “It gives them a sense of identity and belonging in the classroom.” Banging the drum … Moses Boyd, who calls his music ‘an extension of the diaspora’. Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images Literature is how we share ideas, values, beliefs and even our culture. It is through this sharing of ideas that our minds and beliefs are shaped, and it is ultimately how we stop our minds being the ‘weapon in the hands of the oppressor’ Biko talked about. In Britain, Kelso Cochrane worked as a carpenter whilst saving to attend law school. On May 17, three weeks before his wedding he was murdered. When Mark Duggan died, they cropped out the picture of his daughter’s grave to make him look like a thug +

I realised it's not because you're annoying, it's not because you're ugly, it’s because you don't look like them + Max Mosley was a racist and fascist. Max Mosley was in charge of 'the youth movement' of his father's (Oswald Moseley) fascist party and he roamed the streets of Notting Hill in the period 1959-62 looking for Afro-Caribbean men to beat up. His father, titled Sir Oswald Mosley, was the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s. Max Mosley published racist and abusive election literature about the Windrush generation. Below you'll find content suitable for use with both primary and secondary school pupils, including classroom resources from BBC Teach and content from across the BBC. Each BBC Teach resource is accompanied by teacher notes to aid classroom use. In fact, the students’ and workers’ unions at Oxford must now take a stand and tell the governing body that it will take strike action all along the line unless this donation is returned to its bloody sender at once. You can walk through the world, touching people’s hair because you think it looks fluffy but it’s a completely dehumanising thing that has its roots in human zoos. That’s the impact of omission, that people can walk around not thinking about the history of their actions.”

MyLondon put seven questions to the police about the events surrounding the shooting of Mr Kaba. The Met did not provide a response to the questions, but referred MyLondon to the IOPC. Among these questions were inquiries as to why a non-lethal weapon wasn't used by armed officers and if Mr Kaba had been asked to exit the vehicle before he was shot.