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10 things your white family never taught you about racism - Part 8 (video: 5 min)

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10 things your white family never taught you about racism - Part 8 (video: 5 min)

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By Ashani Mfuko

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It’s time to do better! | Ashani Mfuko Consulting Worldwide LLC

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Mia Mottley, PM of Barbados’s response to the call that the colonised should compensate the colonisers! (Video: 3m)

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Mia Mottley, PM of Barbados’s response to the call that the colonised should compensate the colonisers! (Video: 3m)

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In 2026, I cannot believe we are being asked to respond to the suggestion that the descendants of the enslaved should pay for the machinery that oppressed them. The Caribbean does not owe Britain… | Mia Amor Mottley | 35 comments

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In 2026, I cannot believe we are being asked to respond to the suggestion that the descendants of the enslaved should pay for the machinery that oppressed them. The Caribbean does not owe Britain for slavery, for colonial extraction, or for laws that treated African people as chattel. We are not asking for charity. We are asking for justice, and history itself has already told the truth. Those who wish to speak on this matter should first take the time to read enough history to understand it. The Caribbean will not be used as a prop for anyone’s politics. We know who we are, we know what was done, and we will continue to speak for repair with clarity and dignity. | 35 comments on LinkedIn

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DNA Research on human diversity (video: 22m 43s)

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DNA Research on human diversity (video: 22m 43s)

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Scientists Compared the DNA of Every Race on Earth — The Results Shocked Everyone

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Sept 2024

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30 Patterns of Harm - A Structural Companion Guide

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30 Patterns of Harm - A Structural Companion Guide

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by Dr Shereen Daniels, 18 July 2025

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30-patterns-of-harm - Met Police Review by Shereen Daniels 18 July 2025

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‘Go back to where you came from’ - (video 3m 37s)

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This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.  https://t.co/6SWyu0vISg

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This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.  https://t.co/6SWyu0vISg

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Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.

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Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. 

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‘That’s white privilege!’ (Spoken word 3m)

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‘That’s white privilege!’ (Spoken word 3m)

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By Kyla Jenée Lacey

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Write About Now Poetry on Instagram: "“That’s white privilege….”

@kylajlacey x @wanpoetry 

Don’t miss Kyla Jenée Lacey feature at the @wanpoetry 12 year anniversary open mic in Houston on 2/25. For tix + info at >> wanpoetry.com >> link in bio.

“White Privilege”

🎤: @kylajlacey 
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🏠: Chicago🍀

#whiteprivilege #blackhistorymonth #kylajeneelacey #wanpoetry"

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136K likes, 4,136 comments - wanpoetry on February 2, 2026: "“That’s white privilege….”

@kylajlacey x @wanpoetry 

Don’t miss Kyla Jenée Lacey feature at the @wanpoetry 12 year anniversary open mic in Houston on 2/25. For tix + info at >> wanpoetry.com >> link in bio.

“White Privilege”

🎤: @kylajlacey 
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Africans and “the Windrush generation” 1948 – 1973: some comparisons and silences (research article)

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Africans and “the Windrush generation” 1948 – 1973: some comparisons and silences (research article)

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by Ama Biney, University of Liverpool 21 Nov 2025

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Stop and Search Disparity in London (article)

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Stop and Search Disparity in London (article)

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by Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Tue 10 Mar 2026 00.01 GMT

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Black people up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in richest areas of London

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Exclusive: Research found extreme disproportion in use of police power in districts such as Richmond-upon-Thames

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Racism in Met Police is systemic (video: 3m 32s)

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Racism in Met Police is systemic (video: 3m 32s)

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Racism in Met Police is systemic, report warns

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The untold story of Bibha Choudhuri (video: 1m 4s)

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The untold story of Bibha Choudhuri (video: 1m 4s)

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'Blue-Light' Hijabs for Muslim Police (article)

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'Blue-Light' Hijabs for Muslim Police (article)

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by Zahra Onsori

9 December 2025 for Hyphen Online

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It is hoped that 'blue light hijab' developed by Leicestershire Police and De Montfort University could encourage more women to join up

A cutting-edge "blue light hijab" that promises to protect frontline Muslim police officers from strangulation using a proprietary magnetic design is being rolled out in Leicestershire after three years in development.

The hijab is now being given to every eligible officer on the force, and Leicestershire Police is in talks with uniform suppliers across the country about a wider rollout. It consists of two pieces of fabric, with the outer layer held in place by a magnetised quick-release clasp that is designed to easily detach if pulled during a confrontation without exposing the wearer's hair.

Its design and development brought together Leicestershire Police and Leicester 's De Montfort University (DMU), and saw a special plant set up on campus to produce the patented four circular magnets that hold together the outer part of the hijab.

"In a career like policing, we are going to find ourselves in situations that can be quite dangerous," said Fiona Shaik Umar, the female lead for the Metropolitan Police's Association of Muslim Police. "We are susceptible to things like strangulation, or people using the hijab as a weapon against us." A regular hijab can also be pulled over the eyes as a distraction, she said. "This product eliminates that. Hopefully this will pave the way for lots of women to now consider a career in policing."

As well as the magnetic two-piece design, the blue light hijab has slots for radio earpieces.

"We did learn some quite sad stories of where people had had their hijab used as a means of strangulation or were pulled off," said Umar. "I've experienced that myself where people know that pulling your hijab is an easy way to distract you."

The project's leader, Leicestershire Police detective sergeant Yassin Desai, first had the idea for the blue light hijab 20 years ago.

"At that time, we didn't have a single Muslim woman with a hijab on the force," he told Hyphen. "I thought: maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe if we had [a uniform hijab] then maybe we would be able to encourage someone to join."

No data is available for the number of Muslim officers within Leicestershire Police, but Asian British and Black British people are underrepresented - making up 15.3% and 2.4% of the local population respectively, according to ONS data, but only 4.9% and 0.6% of officers.

Of seeing the hijab rolled out to officers, Desai added: "It's really humbling and amazing to see it finally come into the public domain. It's been a labour of love for me."

After approaching designers at DMU with the concept, it took three years to bring it to production. Feedback from Muslim female officers around the UK was crucial in the design, and the hijab was used in combat testing to ensure its durability and safety.

"The magnetised clasps will stay in place when you're walking, talking, eating, wrestling someone to the ground," said Desai. "If you're a police officer, it will stay in place when it needs to, but it will also come away if it's pulled from any direction."

He added that there had been interest in the hijab from Muslim women beyond policing - including those working in prisons and veterinary medicine and even women looking for safer sportswear.

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'Blue light hijab' developed by Leicestershire Police and De Montfort University could encourage more women to join, says inventor

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Reflections on race from a privileged son by Tim Wise, 2004

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I think the answer is about interpretation. If you already know all of the history and the specifics of those consequences deeply, then it may seem baI think the answer is about interpretation. If you already know all of the history and the specifics of those consequences deeply, then it may seem basic to you. I'm listening to the audible version as well, and he (and his content) feels authentic and sincere. I doubt that Tim Wise would be as respected as he is if he came across obnoxious or redundant. Sharon Montgomery...more (less)

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I think the answer is about interpretation. If you already know all of the history and the specifics of those consequences deeply, then it may seem baI think the answer is about interpretation. If you already know all of the history and the specifics of those consequences deeply, then it may seem basic to you.

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Lindsay Tsang's story 2021 (aka vlogger Bubzbeauty)

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Einstein Built Quantum Physics on His Work — History Forgot Him

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Einstein built quantum physics on his work (video 52s)

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Einstein built quantum physics on his work (video 52s)

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Remember his name: Satyendra Nath Bos.

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Einstein Built Quantum Physics on His Work — History Forgot Him

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Ethiopia - The Uncolonised Beacon of African Christianity (article)

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Ethiopia - The Uncolonised Beacon of African Christianity (article)

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Ethiopia - the uncolonised beacon of African Christianity

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Dr Sheila Akomiah-Conteh explains how Ethiopia escaped Western colonisation and the effect this had on the country’s faith and stability

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The Rural Racism Project 2023-25 Reports

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The Rural Racism Project 2023-25 Reports

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Our Reports and Executive Summaries

The three reports and executive summaries below summarise the most significant findings from the project and provides evidence-based insights to challenge racism and make the countryside an inclusive environment for all:

1. Unpacking Experiences of Hostility: Assesses the ways in which minoritised groups are included and excluded in rural environments, and the impacts that this has on individuals and communities.
Read the Executive Summary (PDF, 243kb)
Read the Report (PDF, 107MB)

2. Unpacking Expressions of Hostility: Explores the historical, cultural and symbolic expressions of racism in rural locations through arts-based media to produce more inclusive narratives about rural life.
Read the Executive Summary (PDF, 201kb)
Read the Report (PDF, 54MB)

3. Unpacking the Backlash: Identifies the underpinning factors that trigger hostile reactions to the exposure of rural racism through the analysis of public reactions to issues of ‘race’ within rural environments.
Read the Executive Summary (PDF, 227kb)
Read the Report (PDF, 2.25MB)

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The Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester was awarded funding from the Leverhulme Trust to lead a major new study entitled The Rural Racism Project: Towards an Inclusive Countryside (2023–2025). This large-scale research project, led by Professor Neil Chakraborti, Professor Corinne Fowler and Dr Amy Clarke, challenges dominant depictions of rural England as peaceful, neutral and apolitical by investigating the realities of racism experienced by minoritised ethnic individuals and communities in rural spaces, in order to understand how racism is expressed in rural contexts.

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The Rural Racim Project - Introduction (video: 4m 19s)

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The Rural Racim Project - Introduction (video: 4m 19s)

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Advertiser gets it badly wrong on shower gel ad (article)

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Advertiser gets it badly wrong on shower gel ad (article)

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Lauren Almeida

Wed 20 Aug 2025

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Shower gel ad gets UK ban for suggesting black skin is problematic

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Watchdog says television advert for Sanex fed negative stereotypes and was likely to cause serious offence

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Things not to say to someone of mixed race (video: 5m)

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Things not to say to someone of mixed race (video: 5m)

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Things Not To Say To Someone Of Mixed Race

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Through spoken word, history, live gospel music, and personal testimony, The Rivers of Repair offers a moving and honest reflection on transatlantic enslavement, the British Empire’s impact on the Caribbean, and the ongoing legacy of colonialism in the UK today.

On 1 October, in London, at the beginning of Black History Month UK 2025, come to a powerful live event exploring Britain’s 400-year involvement in the Caribbean, from enslavement and colonisation to present-day calls for reparations and reconciliation.

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This Black History Month UK 2025, A powerful live event exploring Britain’s 400-year involvement in the Caribbean, through Word & Music

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The Rural Racism Project (video: 98 mins)

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The Rural Racism Project (video: 98 mins)

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Civic Leicester

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The Rural Racism Project | In conversation with Dr Rachel Keighley & Dr Viji Kuppan, researchers

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Bristol steppin sistas including Sophie's solo and Group Leader Walks

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Bristol steppin sistas including Sophie’s solo and Group Leader Walks ~ Home

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Inspired by Slow Ways, The Forgiving Path is a series of three short stories about three people’s personal connections with walking, landscape and nature. A Film by David Mathias
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Bristol Steppin' Sistas Founder gets award (news)

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Bristol Steppin' Sistas Founder gets award (news)

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Walking group founder wins global award for changing women’s lives | ITV News

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Sophia Brown formed ‘Bristol Steppin Sistas’ in 2021 to help black women and women of colour explore the outdoors. | ITV News West Country

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by Mohammed Dhalech

2 February 2022

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Inclusivity in the outdoors. Churchill Fellow Mohammed Dhalech shares recommendations for engaging minoritised racial groups in the outdoors

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In His Own Words: Nelson Mandela on His Imprisonment

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Implications of the slave trade for African societies (article)

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Implications of the slave trade for African societies (article)

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The slave sellers and European ‘factories’ - Implications of the slave trade for African societies - Higher History Revision - BBC Bitesize

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Revise Higher History and discover why the Atlantic slave trade brought about a negative impact on Africa among its rulers and kingdoms.

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Bishop of Croydon on her experience of growing up and working in the UK and the Church of England (article)

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Bishop of Croydon on her experience of growing up and working in the UK and the Church of England (article)

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Rt Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon | The Church of England

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Since 2022, Rosemarie Mallett has served as Bishop of Croydon, an area bishop in the Diocese of Southwark. She gives her advice to young GMH people who may be considering ordained ministry.

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Chevalier - Mozart sounds a bit like him! (Film Trailer 7m)

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Chevalier - Mozart sounds a bit like him! (Film Trailer 7m)

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Documentary telling the story of the Black African Kingdom of Kush and its battles with ancient Egypt for supremacy of the Nile Valley. The kings of Kush ruled Egypt for 100 years and became the most powerful emperors of the ancient world. Though archaeologists were convinced Kush's influence had been underestimated, they had lacked proof until the recent discovery of an inscription in a tomb that tells of an invasion by a Kushite army. 2004

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Documentary telling the story of the Black African kingdom of Kush and its battles with ancient Egypt for supremacy of the Nile Valley.

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George Floyd: Five years on (video: 89 mins)

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George Floyd: Five years on (video: 89 mins)

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21 May 2025

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Fury and resentment explode after the murder of George Floyd. A film told through the eyes of young protesters at the heart of the fightback against racism.

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Defining microagressions using Holywood movies (video: 4m 29s)

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Defining microagressions using Holywood movies (video: 4m 29s)

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What is the definition of microaggression?

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Interview with a 3rd gen Brit settler in Kenya (video: 126m)

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Interview with a 3rd gen Brit settler in Kenya (video: 126m)

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Interview with Mike Harries by Lynn Ngugi, Jan 2025

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Settler colonialism or pure innocence?A conversation with a 3rd Generation British settler in Kenya

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9 February 2025

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The Role of USAID in Africa: Insights from White Malice - Susa Africa

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Given Trump’s America First sloganeering, I doubt if Trump is aware that USAID’s aid regimes are indeed Greek Gifts that serve only .

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A new podcast from producer, writer and truthseeker Nova Reid about pioneering Black women whose histories have been mythologised or erased: brilliant Black women who not only survived unimaginable racism, but thrived and inspired others.

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How every project starts - from my head to reams and reams of handwritten notes

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Hidden Histories with Nova Reid — Nova Reid

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When I started writing my debut book, The Good Ally, I was captivated by recurring themes of resistance from Black women, that I never learned about throughout my entire schooling. Intrigued to find out more and why their stories were untold, the seed for this show was sown. Born in Britain, of Jamaican heritage with lineage lost to slavery in West Africa - my relationship with Britain is complicated - the interruption of slavery means that so much of mine and our shared history has been, often deliberately, erased. Through Hidden Histories with Nova Reid it has been an honour to unearth not just these women’s legacies, but their humanity and share more, not only about how they survived, but thrived, so that I can be here today, telling you their stories.

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 Dating while mixed race (video: 11m 34s)

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 Dating while mixed race (video: 11m 34s)

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Derek Puma, 2024

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Identity Politics and the Mixed Race experience (video: 6m 57s)

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Identity Politics and the Mixed Race experience (video: 6m 57s)

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Where does the rise of identity politics leave people of mixed race? - BBC Newsnight

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What is DEI and why is Trump opposed to it (article)

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What is DEI and why is Trump opposed to it (article)

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by Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent for The Guardian

Fri 24 Jan 2025 16.21 GMT

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When American voters headed to the ballot box in November, polls suggested the cost of living, immigration and reproductive rights ranked among their biggest concerns.

But tucked within this week's barrage of executive orders was an attack on an initiative that had in recent years become increasingly weaponised around the world: measures that sought to tackle discrimination.

Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at unwinding the federal government's decades-long push to ensure an inclusive workplace that reflects American society.

The directives also instruct federal agencies to develop plans to deter diversity, equity and inclusion measures - often referred to as DEI - in the private sector, a move viewed by some as an attempt to ward off companies from addressing discrimination in their workplaces.

Here, we take a look at how the push for a more equal society became a flashpoint in the so-called culture wars, and what it could mean for a world still fraught with power imbalances.

What is DEI?

Put simply, it is a generic label given to the wide-ranging measures that aim to ensure people of all backgrounds - including from historically marginalised groups - can gain a foothold and thrive at organisations.

The roots of the term trace back to the US in the 1960s, with the label used to describe programmes that tackled discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, religion and disability.

The measures have long acted as a counter to the biases that quietly endure in so-called colour-blind and merit-based societies, as Rev Al Sharpton, the president of the National Action Network, alluded to this week.

"Why do we have DEI?" he asked a crowd gathered at a black church a few blocks from the White House on Monday. "We have DEI because you denied us diversity, you denied us equity, you denied us inclusion. DEI was a remedy to the racial institutional bigotry practised in academia and in these corporations."

Why has it come under fire?

In 2023, the US supreme court ruled against race-conscious admission programmes at colleges and universities, reversing decades of precedent. The decision emboldened conservatives and unleashed a flood of lawsuits aimed at dismantling policies designed to foster diversity, equity and inclusion

At the heart of these challenges was the argument that these anti-discrimination measures were in fact discriminatory towards the groups that had historically dominated workplaces, including white Americans.

DEI soon became a talking point, at times acting as a sort of dog whistle and scapegoat, as the measures were falsely blamed for events such as the demise of Silicon Valley Bank, Boeing's aircraft safety problems and the collapse of a bridge in Baltimore after it was struck by a cargo ship.

The battle against DEI soon became another tool in conservatives' assault on what they deemed as "woke", epitomised by Florida's attempt to pass a "Stop Woke" law that banned companies from requiring diversity training. An appeals court later deemed the law to be a violation of the first amendment.

Those who fuelled the animosity towards DEI included the tech billionaire Elon Musk, who noted on social media: "DEI is just another word for racism. Shame on anyone who uses it." The stance was later echoed by Trump during his presidential campaign as he claimed there was "a definite anti-white feeling in this country".

Who has backed these measures?

Trump's actions this week were swiftly countered by legislators from more than 30 states who, in a letter first reported on by USA Today, argued that the US had long been strengthened by efforts to include everyone, with initiatives such as the expansion of the right to vote and the decision to allow women the right to open bank accounts in their own names. "Anti-DEI rhetoric and policy goals are dangerous, destructive, and discriminatory," the letter noted. "Ultimately, they erect barriers to our American dreams."

Mark Cuban speaking on stage at a Kamala Harris election campaign event in Wisconsin, in October. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Others, such as Mark Cuban, the billionaire businessman and minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, have highlighted the logic that underpins these measures. "Good businesses look where others don't, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed," he wrote on social media. "Having a workforce that is diverse and representative of your stakeholders is good for business."

What evidence is there to back DEI measures?

In 2022, McKinsey & Company noted that companies that are diverse, equitable and inclusive were better able to respond to challenges, win top talent and meet the needs of varied customer bases. The focus on diversity allowed them to find talent wherever it may be, while the expanding focus on equity and inclusion helped minimise employee turnover, reducing expenses such as hiring and training.

The finding was backed by another report, published in 2020, that analysed 1,000 US firms. It found that companies with greater gender and ethnic diversity were more likely to outperform their peers. The difference was significant, with gender diversity leading to a 25% probability of higher profits, while ethnic diversity led to a 36% probability.

Speaking to CNN in October, Ken Frazier, who as head of Merck between 2011 and 2021 was the first Black chief executive of a large pharmaceuticals company, summed it up: "At its best, DEI is about developing talent, measuring it in a fair way and finding hidden talent and disadvantaged talent in a world where not everybody has an equal chance to exhibit their abilities."

The experience of the US federal government - the largest employer in the US - also suggests these approaches benefit a wider range of employees. Decades of anti-discriminatory measures had yielded a truly merit-based federal workforce whose demographics reflect the country it sought to serve, said Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees.

"The federal government has the lowest gender and racial pay gaps of all employers, precisely because employment decisions are made based on one's ability to do the work and not on where they went to school or who they supported in the last election," Kelley said this week.

"Undoing these programmes is just another way for President Trump to undermine the merit-based civil service and turn federal hiring and firing decisions into loyalty tests."

Are DEI measures still needed?

A 2023 poll by Pew Research Center found that six in 10 Americans believed that being white helped a person's ability to get ahead, with 42% saying it helped a lot. Those surveyed were also more likely to say that being a woman, Hispanic or Asian was more harmful than helpful.

As Trump joined conservatives in rallying against DEI, companies such as Meta, McDonald's and Amazon were among the many that said they were rolling back efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in their workplaces.

Their exodus belied the fact that much of the private sector remained a laggard on diversity and inclusion. Last year, female chief executives led just 28 of the world's 500 largest businesses, while Black executives led eight of them - amounting to 1.6% of the total.

How will Trump's measures play out globally?

To a lesser extent, the debate over diversity and pushback against all seen as woke has for years been a talking point among certain factions of the political establishment in Europe. Last February, the UK's then defence secretary, Grant Shapps, was reported to be furious after it emerged that the army was considering relaxing security checks in an attempt to increase diversity. Speaking to the Telegraph, Shapps linked the measures to a "political agenda", adding: "There is a woke culture that has seeped into public life over time and is poisoning the discourse."

In England, the Department for Education had resisted calls to make the teaching of Black history compulsory, with the then schools minister, Nick Gibb, insisting in 2021 that "a curriculum based on relevance to pupils is to deny them an introduction to the 'best that has been thought and said'," while unions representing museum staff expressed fears in 2021 that the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, was seeking to "airbrush" Britain's colonialist and racist past.

A statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford, sparked protests in 2021. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock

The then government's pushback detracted from the work that remained to be done in the UK: in 2020, a survey found that black people held just 1.5% of the 3.7m leadership positions across the UK's public and private sectors in 2019.

There are similar examples across the continent. In France in 2021, Élisabeth Moreno, the minister tasked with gender equality and diversity in President Emmanuel Macron's government, dismissed white privilege as a controversial US notion in an interview with Bloomberg.

"Woke culture is something very dangerous, and we shouldn't bring it to France," she added. Years earlier, another lawmaker from Macron's party, François Jolivet, scorned a major French dictionary for including a gender-inclusive pronoun in its online edition, accusing them of being "militants of a cause that has nothing to do with France: #wokisme."

In Hungary, the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, banned gender studies at universities, claiming that people were born either male or female.

It could be that the debate has failed to take root in much of Europe precisely because most countries insist on a colour-blind approach - one that prevents the collection of demographic data on ethnicity that could establish the prevalence of discrimination in workplaces, the housing market and at the hands of police.

The lack of data could explain why a poll in April of 1,800 managers and employees across nine European countries concluded that just 7% of the workplaces surveyed were building a diverse and inclusive culture.

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Managing discrimination from patients, guardians and relatives (guidance)

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Managing discrimination from patients, guardians and relatives (guidance)

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The following section sets out steps that should be taken when an incident of abuse, harassment or unlawful discrimination on the basis of a protected characteristic occurs.

These steps can be taken by any worker in a position to do so:

the healthcare professional on the receiving end

other workers who are bystanders/witnesses

clinical managers, site managers, security, senior managers, etc).

However, ultimately it is the duty of senior leaders to ensure that policies are adhered to, and that the healthcare worker is protected.

When a patient requests a healthcare worker with a particular characteristic

If a patient (or their guardian/relative) requests a particular personal characteristic that appears to be on the basis of unlawful discrimination, potential responses include:

(See section 5: 'Exceptions for situations when a request for a particular characteristic might be lawful and valid').

1. Immediately engage with the individual who has displayed discriminatory behaviours - in your communications use language and tone that is clear, calm and objective.

2. If possible, ask the patient (or their guardian/relative) why they are making that request.

3. Tell the individual that their behaviour is unacceptable in this healthcare environment. Be specific and give examples of their language/behaviours that were discriminatory or inappropriate.

4. If the request appears to have no reasonable merit (see section 5), advise patients (or their guardians/relatives) that these requests cannot be accommodated.

5. Inform them that the available health and care professional is capable of delivering their care.

6. If the patient agrees to remove their request - consult with the healthcare professional. Colleagues/managers should not assume that the professional will not be willing to continue to provide care, but should make clear that if they wish to withdraw on wellbeing grounds, that this will be respected.

7. If patients (or their guardians/relatives) insist on their request, advise them of the likely impact on being able to receive care at that organisation, their right to seek care elsewhere and the process involved in seeking care at another provider. Additionally, there may be certain situations where a professional decision can be made based on duty of care for the patient, to remove the guardian/relative displaying the behaviours and continue treatment of the patient.

8. Carefully document such a refusal to confirm that the patient truly understands the risks, benefits, and alternatives to their request.

Abuse, harassment and hate crime

When a patient (and their guardian/relative) is abusive (physically or verbally) take the following steps:

1. Make the environment safe. This may mean calling the police or security services, removing the perpetrator from the environment and consider moving the person who is receiving the abuse to a safe space temporarily for their protection and wellbeing.

2. Immediately engage with the individual who has been abusive, telling them that their behaviour is unacceptable in this healthcare environment. Be specific and give examples of their language/behaviours that were abusive.

3. Consider the following immediate options:
a. Ask the individual to leave immediately (backed up by police or security if needed).
b. Tell them that they will have to adjust their behaviours or they may be asked to leave the service.
c. Advise them of their right to seek healthcare elsewhere but that all employers do have a duty to protect their staff from abuse.

4. If the patient is having emergency care or does not understand the situation due to an underlying pathology, consider how to revisit the conversation at a point when they may be able to understand (this could include sending a letter at a later date when they are no longer in care). See section 5 'Exceptions' for more information on this.

5. Carefully document the incident and actions taken. Write objective facts and observations, avoid noting subjective opinions. See annex 1 on monitoring in the model policy.

6. Additional steps to consider:
a. Ban the individual from the department or use a behavioural agreement for future encounters.
b. Report the behaviour to the police if it is deemed to be unlawful discrimination or hate crime.
c. Complete an internal incident reporting form.

Healthcare workers on the receiving end of the incident

When faced with incidents of harassment on the basis of your personal or protected characteristic, consider taking the following steps. If you have witnessed an incident these steps might also be relevant, as witnessing an incident could also have significant impact on a healthcare worker.

1. Talk to your colleagues and managers about your concerns and the impact of the incident on your wellbeing.

2. Contact the BMA (if you are a doctor), your union, staff support networks and employee assistance programmes for advice and wellbeing support.

3. Advise your employer of their duty of care to take steps to protect you from abuse.

4. Consider what steps you would like the employer to take and share these options with them.

5. Share this guidance and model policy with your employer.

6. If no action is taken, consider making a complaint through formal complaints and grievance procedures. Seek advice on how to do this through the organisation's human resources department and your union representatives, such as the BMA.

7. Document all incidents with dates, times, people involved, and actions taken.

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Experiencing racism in the workplace - advice from the GMC

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he burden of discrimination can compound the stress of practicing medicine for physicians who are cultural and religious minorities. Hospitals have policies protecting against workplace discrimination at the hands of colleagues or supervisors. But when a patient is racist or biased towards a physician or other health care provider, there is often no recourse.

Through silence and inaction on this issue, hospitals may reinforce the isolation that clinicians of racial and religious minorities can sometimes feel in medicine. Particularly at a time when some Americans feel emboldened to speak and act in bigoted ways, clinicians need support managing patients who make derogatory and abusive remarks.

In the last rotation of my final year of medical school, I was asked to apply pressure to the femoral artery of a woman who had undergone cardiac catheterization to open her blocked coronary arteries. Since she was wide awake, and I would be standing next to her bed holding gauze firmly to her bleeding right groin for at least 30 minutes, I tried to break the ice by saying, "Guess we should get to know each other."

The patient was an elderly white woman who had spent 40 years teaching at a nearby suburban high school. She complimented me on making it to medical school and, without warning, gave me this advice: "Now, don't waste your affirmative action."

I was offended by her unspoken assumptions about my educational pedigree. What other presumptions had she made about me as a black American? In my head, much like a sitcom freeze frame, I imagined telling her off, delivering my curriculum vitae line by line as proof that I'd earned my spot in medical school and forcing her to acknowledge her racial bias. In real life, I just smiled and kept the pressure on her artery.

Patient bias can be even more direct. I recently cared for an elderly veteran who, after being introduced to my intern, a Muslim American female with a last name that highlights her heritage, offered his complete thesis on how Islam was ruining the world and that all Muslims are terrorists. Although she was insulted, my intern did not confront the patient. After we had finished admitting him to the hospital, we commiserated on similar experiences. We used his age and possible post-traumatic stress disorder to soften the blow of his bigoted candor. In spite of his commentary, we cared for him competently and respectfully, just as we care for all of our other patients.

In the days following that encounter, I asked my colleagues if they had ever experienced anything similar. A Vietnamese physician told me about being called a "dirty incompetent g**k" by an angry patient experiencing alcohol withdrawal. During physical examination, a colleague discovered a large swastika tattooed on the back of her patient. Another was told by a patient that he looked more like "a common street thug" than a doctor.

A 2011 survey found that among 377 family medicine trainees, 35 percent experienced intimidation based on race, gender, or culture during their residencies. Recusing oneself from the treatment team is an option for some physicians, but most of those I spoke with ignored the racist or derogatory comments and kept working.

Guidelines for managing patient prejudice are hard to come by. A 2016 article in the journal Academic Medicine suggested a four-step approach for physicians confronted with a patient's racism: 1) ignore such comments in an emergency; 2) focus the encounter on the shared goals of treatment; 3) depersonalize the event; and 4) foster a community of support within the hospital.

A New England Journal of Medicine article, "Dealing with Racist Patients," offers an approach that incorporates consideration of the patient's decision-making capacity and an attempt to understand his or her reasoning when, for example, a clinician of another race is requested. There are, after all, nuanced distinctions between patients who refuse care based upon a practitioner's race for reasons rooted in bigotry and those who make similar requests based on religion or culture. Some data suggest that religious and cultural concordance between patients and their health care providers is associated with increased patient satisfaction, comprehension, and trust.

While that makes sense, it seems disingenuous to retreat to protocol without addressing the harm that a patient's bigoted comment can have on a practitioner. Racism in medicine has been identified as a stressor for African-American physicians, and it is not a stretch to say that the distress caused by patients' racially charged commentary may contribute to burnout.

Some degree of ignoring such comments and "rising above" the situation may be warranted to maintain workflow and professionalism. Yet physicians should also have the right to work without being targets for verbal abuse, threat, and intimidation based on race, gender or religion.

At its extreme, some have suggested racism could be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (sometimes erroneously called the bible of psychiatry) as a psychiatric illness of delusion. If we extend this logic, then doctors have a requirement to diagnose and treat racism when it presents in their exam rooms in order to prevent harmful acts by deluded individuals against targeted social groups.

If my colleagues and I err by ignoring patients' bigoted comments or actions, then what should be the appropriate response? The answer isn't simple.

Many institutions have committees on social medicine, multicultural affairs, or diversity and inclusion. Through the efforts of these groups - often led by minority physicians and students - teaching hospitals have integrated cultural awareness and sensitivity training into medical education. Such training has focused on coaching physicians to examine their own biases and how they influence patient care.

These are important steps in the right direction, but they alone aren't enough. Medical education has fallen short in modeling the dialogue between health care providers and patients about patient-held biases. The result? Minority health care providers are often silent about their experiences with racism, religious discrimination, and other forms of bigotry in medicine. Majority providers, when they witness such acts, often fail to intercede on their colleague's behalf.

In an ideal world, hospitals would categorically disavow cultural and religious discrimination. Hospital administrators would publicly refuse to cater to culturally biased demands and express a lack of tolerance for derogatory comments towards physicians and staff as a part of patient non-discrimination policies. All health care providers would receive training on how to facilitate dialogue that can productively challenge a patient's racist or biased behavior. Hospital support networks would exist so minority providers could candidly discuss moments in training and practice where they've felt discriminated against.

The conversations we must have with our colleagues and patients are difficult and uncomfortable. Yet openly discussing bias is how we will put pressure on hospitals to consider how policies can be revised to better support minority physicians who are victims of demeaning remarks or actions. Our ethical responsibility to provide unbiased clinical care to all comers makes hospital administrators unlikely to take on this issue without pressure from physicians and other providers.

We will never eliminate racism and religious discrimination, but we work diligently to - at the very least - ensure that our hospitals are safe and affirming environments for health care providers to discuss how cultural and religious differences affect how we are perceived and treated by those whose lives we have sworn to save.
Lachelle Dawn Weeks, MD, is a resident in internal medicine and chair of the Social Justice Committee at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

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Institutional Racism in Mental Health Care (Letter)

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Institutional Racism in Mental Health Care (Letter)

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An old lock of hair enabled researchers to sequence the genome of an Aboriginal Australian and show that Aboriginal Australians were the original explorers, beginning a journey some 70,000 years ago from Africa to the Australian continent. (Short article about a 2011 University of Cambridge Study.)

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Aboriginal Australians were first explorers

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An old lock of hair has enabled researchers to sequence the genome of an Aboriginal Australian, and show that modern Aboriginal Australians are direct

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Rural issues are currently attracting unprecedented levels of interest, with the debates surrounding the future of 'traditional' rural customs and practice becoming a significant political concern. However, the problem of racism in rural areas has been largely overlooked by academics, practitioners and researchers who have sought almost exclusively to develop an understanding of racism in urban contexts. This book aims to address this oversight by examining notions of ethnic identity, 'otherness' and racist victimisation that have tended to be marginalised from traditional rural discourse.

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Anti Racist Cumbria on Instagram: "📢📢SUMMIT 2025 ANNOUNCEMENT📢📢

We are VERY excited to announce that early-bird tickets for our Anti Racist Summit in 2025 are now available! The Anti Racist Summit is the seminal social justice event in the county, and the 2025 Summit will be a vibrant celebration of FIVE YEARS of ARC! 

To celebrate the launch of the 2025 Summit we're offering a small selection of EARLYBIRD tickets.

So if you're ready to secure your space now, you'll save 10% on your booking.
Use code ARCearlybird at the checkout*

You better believe that our Summit in 2025, will go bolder, brighter and be more experiential than ever before! 

We’re heading back to the stunning @tbtlake where nearly 400 people will come together in an inspiring space for learning, connections, healing, creating, and moving anti-racist actions forward. 

We’ve sold out 3 years in a row so if you want to be a part of it, you better move quickly! 

Expect expert led workshops, wellbeing practices, art, music, food, boats and new to 2025 is a literary tent with guest authors and thought provoking chats, tackling the topics that matter.

🌟And this time, we’re also going to be rounding up the celebrations with a comedy night!🌟That’s right, you can still laugh and smile when working on anti-racism, in fact it’s important that you do! 

Our Keynote Speaker and Comedy Night headliners will be announced soon, but trust us, you’ll be as excited by the line up as we are… 

This is an event like no other in Cumbria and it is not to be missed!

Tickets and more information, as well as a blog about the highlights from our past Summits are available via the link in our bio!

*does not apply to low income ticket types which are already heavily subsidised"

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27 likes, 1 comments - antiracistcumbria on November 2, 2024: "📢📢SUMMIT 2025 ANNOUNCEMENT📢📢

We are VERY excited to announce that early-bird tickets for our Anti Racist Summit in 2025 are now available! The Anti Racist Summit is the seminal social justice event in the county, and the 2025 Summit will be a vibrant celebration of FIVE YEARS of ARC! 

To celebrate the launch of the 2025 Summit we're offering a small selection of EARLYBIRD tickets.

So if you're ready to secure your space now, you'll save 10% on your booking.
Use code ARCearlybird at the checkout*

You better believe that our Summit in 2025, will go bolder, brighter and be more experiential than ever before! 

We’re heading back to the stunning @tbtlake where nearly 400 people will come together in an inspiring space for learning, connections, healing, creating, and moving anti-racist actions forward. 

We’ve sold out 3 years in a row so if you want to be a part of it, you better move quickly! 

Expect expert led workshops, wellbeing practices, art, music, food, boats and new to 2025 is a literary tent with guest authors and thought provoking chats, tackling the topics that matter.

🌟And this time, we’re also going to be rounding up the celebrations with a comedy night!🌟That’s right, you can still laugh and smile when working on anti-racism, in fact it’s important that you do! 

Our Keynote Speaker and Comedy Night headliners will be announced soon, but trust us, you’ll be as excited by the line up as we are… 

This is an event like no other in Cumbria and it is not to be missed!

Tickets and more information, as well as a blog about the highlights from our past Summits are available via the link in our bio!

*does not apply to low income ticket types which are already heavily subsidised". 

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The Rural Racism Project | In conversation with Dr Rachel Keighley & Dr Viji Kuppan, researchers

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Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope 2023

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Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope

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Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope : Pace-Humphreys, Sabrina: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Jamaica moves towards a republic (article)

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Jamaica moves towards a republic (article)

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Dec 2024

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Jamaica tables bill to oust King Charles as head of state and become a republic

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Like other colonies, the Caribbean nation retained the British monarch as head of state after independence in 1962

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Colonialism never ended  - it just changed form (video: 6m 30s)

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Colonialism never ended  - it just changed form (video: 6m 30s)

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Here’s Why Foreign Aid Is a Scam | Doha Debates

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The Black Equity Organisation (BEO) released its Black Britain's Mandate recently. To quote the BEO: 'It's a groundbreaking, transformative initiative set to reshape the landscape of racial equity in the United Kingdom.'

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The Black Britain's Mandate is not just a document-it's a movement. The mandate puts forward urgent policy demands aimed at fostering a more just, inclusive, and equitable society for Britain's Black African, Caribbean, and mixed-heritage communities. Read our analysis of how the Autumn budget addresses key recommendations in our Black Britain's Mandate.

The mandate covers our six key pillars: education, economic empowerment, justice and human rights, culture and representation, neighbourhood and housing and , and has key recommendations for the Government to enact for each pillar.

These policies include urging the government to integrate anti-racist frameworks across NHS services, ending discriminatory housing policies and advocating for mandatory reporting of both the ethnicity and disability pay gaps.

This mandate is the culmination of extensive engagement with Black British communities across the UK. BEO collaborated with local race equality and social justice organisations in Birmingham, Manchester, London, Scotland and Wales, holding 19 events that attracted over 480 in-person attendees and 470 online participants.

The Black Britain's Mandate isn't just about demanding change - it's about creating it. The mandate unites the powerful and diverse voices within Black communities, giving them the platform to assert their political influence and shape a transformative vision for 21st-century Britain.

You can download the pdf here.

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This election cycle represents a pivotal opportunity for change. That is why the Black Equity Organisation (BEO) and Operation Black Vote (OBV) have teamed up and are on a mission to ensure Black voices are front and centre in shaping the future of our country, whoever wins the election.

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The Psychology of Colonialism by Andrewism (video: 13m 19s)

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What form could reparations take? (article)

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James Landale

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Maia Davies

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How likely is the UK to provide reparations for the slave trade, and what could that look like?

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Reparations will be on the agenda of next UK-Carribbean Conference 2025

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Reparations will be on the agenda of next UK-Carribbean Conference 2025

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Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders

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Who was Chevalier de Saint-Georges? - BBC

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Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-George's (18th Century Black composer, born a slave, copied by Mozart) Concerto Opus 5 No. 1 - Violin soloist, Kelly Hall-Tompkins (video: 27m 24s)

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Armand Diangienda - Founder and conductor of L'Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste (video: 2m 44s)

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Armand Diangienda - Founder and conductor of L'Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste (video: 2m 44s)

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RPS Honorary Membership: Armand Diangienda (L'Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste)

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Teaching Resources - Integrating themes into current curriculum for each year group

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Teaching Resources - Integrating themes into current curriculum for each year group

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NB You will need to download this spreadsheet in order to access the word, pdf and excel resources embedded within it.

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3f. The Reflect, Ask, Connect, Expand (RACE) Method

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3f. The Reflect, Ask, Connect, Expand (RACE) Method

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3e. Acknowledge, Ask, Adapt (AAA)  Method

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3e. Acknowledge, Ask, Adapt (AAA)  Method

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3 c. Checklist for finding and Selecting Books

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3b. Checklist for Assessing Visual Materials

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3b. Checklist for Assessing Visual Materials

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3 b. Checklist for assessing Visual Materials

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Intro to Anti-Bias Curriculum - Scaffolding Resources

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Teaching Resources - Using Teachable Moments

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Teaching Resources - Using Teachable Moments

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Below you will find teaching resources that will help to 'decolonise' the curriculum in a primary school. They were developed by White Allies Network Member, Rob Taylor, with the help of experts from Exeter University for his children's school in Exeter and freely offered to others to be adapted to your contexts.

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Rishi Sunak refuses to apologise for Britain's slavery record in response to Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP's request.

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PM Rishi Sunak refuses to apologise for Britain's slavery record (video: 1m 33s)

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PM Rishi Sunak refuses to apologise for Britain's slavery record (video: 1m 33s)

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Afua Hirsch introduces the key themes of her book Brit (ish) (video 8m)

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Afua Hirsch introduces the key themes of her book Brit (ish) (video 8m)

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Trailblazing Black Ballerina dies (article)

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Trailblazing Black Ballerina dies (article)

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Michaela Mabinty DePrince, a trailblazer and inspiration to many in the ballet world, has died at 29, a spokesperson announced on her Instagram page on Friday. No cause of death has yet been reported.

"Her life was one defined by grace, purpose, and strength," the caption said. "Her unwavering commitment to her art, her humanitarian efforts, and her courage in overcoming unimaginable challenges will forever inspire us. She stood as a beacon of hope for many, showing that no matter the obstacles, beauty and greatness can rise from the darkest of places."

DePrince's family released a statement following the announcement of her death.

"I am truly in a state of shock and deep sadness. My beautiful sister is no longer here," Mia DePrince, her sister, wrote. "From the very beginning of our story back in Africa, sleeping on a shared mat in the orphanage, Michaela (Mabinty) and I used to make up our own musical theater plays and act them out. We created our own ballets ... When we got adopted, our parents quickly poured into our dreams and arose the beautiful, gracefully strong ballerina that so many of you knew her as today. She was an inspiration."

Born Mabinty Bangura in Sierra Leone, DePrince was sent to an orphanage aged three, after both of her parents died in the country's civil war. At the orphanage, she experienced mistreatment and malnourishment, in part due to her having vitiligo, she told the Associated Press in 2012.

"I lost both my parents, so I was there [the orphanage] for about a year and I wasn't treated very well because I had vitiligo," she said at the time. "We were ranked as numbers, and number 27 was the least favorite and that was my number, so I got the least amount of food, the least amount of clothes and whatnot."

DePrince was a dancer with the Boston Ballet. Photograph: Jordi Matas/The Guardian

After receiving word that the orphanage would be bombed, DePrince described walking shoeless for miles to reach a refugee camp. Her adoptive mother, who adopted DePrince and two other girls, including Mia, from the orphanage after meeting them in Ghana in 1999, said Michaela was "sick and traumatized by the war", with tonsillitis, fever, mononucleosis and swollen joints. DePrince was four when she was adopted and moved to the United States.

Her passion for ballet began as a young girl in Sierra Leone after she saw a photo of a ballerina. But despite beginning to train in ballet at five, DePrince still experienced trials. At eight, she was told America was not ready for a Black girl ballerina, even though she had been selected to perform the role of Marie in The Nutcracker. At nine, a teacher told her mother that Black girls were not worth investing money in.

DePrince eventually attended the Rock School for Dance Education, a prestigious and selective ballet school.

At 17, she was featured in First Position, a documentary that follows six dancers as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix. She received a scholarship to study at American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of Ballet. After graduating from high school, DePrince worked at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, becoming the youngest principal dancer in the theatre's history.

In 2012, she performed in her first professional full ballet in South Africa. The following year, she joined the Dutch National Ballet's junior company.

Audiences who are unfamiliar with ballet might recognize DePrince from Beyonce's Lemonade, in which the then 21-year-old dances wearing an old-fashioned tutu and headpiece. In 2021, she joined the Boston Ballet as a second soloist. That year, she performed the leading role in Coppelia, a ballet film.

DePrince as Swan in Coppelia. Photograph: No Credit

At the Boston Ballet, DePrince told reporters about how Black dancers who came before her helped motivate her despite experiencing racism and xenophobia.

"I'm very lucky," DePrince said at the time. "There was Lauren Anderson - I had somebody to look up to. The Houston Ballet. Heidi Cruz, the Pennsylvania Ballet when I was younger. There's also Misty Copeland. There's not a lot of us. But what I always try to think about, and what my passion is, is spreading more poppies in a field of daffodils, so to have more Black and brown dancers."

Even with her successes, DePrince did not forget her early childhood. She became a humanitarian and throughout her career expressed a desire to open a school for dance and the arts in Sierra Leone.

"That would be amazing - I'd like to use the money we earn from this book to open the school," DePrince told the Guardian in 2015. "It'll have to be when I retire from dancing. The arts can change you as a person. Dancing helped me share my emotions and connect to my family - it helped me feel like I was special and not the 'devil's child'. Those kids won't have the same opportunities I had, and I don't think they deserve that."

She spent much of her career advocating for and promoting the inclusion of Black dancers in ballet.

"There are practically no black people in ballet, so I need to speak out," she told the Guardian.

In lieu of flowers, DePrince's family has asked people to donate to War Child, an organization DePrince supported.

"This work meant the world to her, and your donations will directly help other children who grew up in an environment of armed conflict," they wrote. "Thank you."

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Dr. Kenneth Clark and Dr. Mamie Clark were the first African American man and the first African American woman, respectively, to earn a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University in the early 1940s. Over the course of 14 years, they developed and conducted what became known as "the doll tests"-groundbreaking experiments that revealed the psychological effects of segregation on African American children. The tests were conducted using several dolls, all identical except for skin color. The Black children, ages 3-7, were asked to identify which doll they preferred. The majority preferred the white doll, leading Drs. Clark to conclude that "prejudice, discrimination and segregation" damaged their self-esteem and caused Black children to develop a sense of inferiority. In 1947, Gordon Parks photographed the Clarks conducting their "doll tests" for Ebony magazine for an article titled "Problem Kids: New Harlem clinic rescues ghetto youth from emotional short circuit." "The doll test" research was later used as key evidence in school desegregation lawsuits including, notably, Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

The Ebony article highlighted the work at the Northside Testing and Consultation Center, located at the heart of Harlem. The center was independently founded by Drs. Mamie and Kenneth Clark and focused on testing and treating troubled children. Their work focused on the devastating psychological effects of segregation, Jim Crow laws, and poverty on these children-work that Parks highlighted through his now-famous images, but was notably demphasized in the accompanying article.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury today visited a 17 th century castle on Ghana's Cape Coast, where enslaved Africans were held before being transported to the Americas on British slave ships.

He was joined by the Anglican Primates of West Africa and the West Indies, who then joined the Archbishop at a Service of Reflection and Reconciliation at nearby Christ Church Anglican Cathedral.

Originally built by the Swedish in the 1650s, Cape Coast Castle passed into Danish, Dutch and then English possession by the 1660s, when it became the headquarters of British colonial administration for the Gold Coast colony.

Over the course of the 18th century, most of Cape Coast Castle's trade was in African captives bound for the Americas where they were enslaved.

Throughout the 18th century, the Castle served as a "grand emporium" of the British slave trade.

During the tour the Archbishop, accompanied by Mrs Caroline Welby, visited the basement dungeons - known as "slave holes" - where Africans, taken from their homes sometimes hundreds of miles away, were held with little ventilation and no windows before being transported across the Atlantic.

The Archbishop paused to pray in silence in a small basement prison cell where up to 200 men were kept, underneath what was then a church.

During the tour he also saw the women's cells, the place where enslaved men and women were branded, and the Door of No Return through which enslaved people passed before boarding ships bound for the Americas.

Commenting on the visit, the Archbishop said today:

"It was profoundly moving and humbling to visit Cape Coast Castle today with my brother Archbishops from Ghana and Jamaica. It was a reminder that the abomination of transatlantic chattel slavery was blasphemy: those who imprisoned men and women in those dungeons saw them as less than human.

"It is to the Church of England's eternal shame that it did not always follow Christ's teaching to give life. It is a stain on the wider church that some Christians did not see their brothers and sisters as created in the image of God, but as objects to be exploited.

"Our response must begin on our knees in prayer and repentance. In calling on the God who blesses the broken, the reviled and those who mourn. In looking to God who transforms, redeems and reconciles.

"But our response does not end there. We are called to transform unjust structures, to pursue peace and reconciliation, to live out the Beatitudes in big ways and small."

The Archbishop toured Cape Coast Castle with Archbishop Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, the Primate of the Anglican Church of the Province of West Africa; Archbishop Howard Gregory, the Anglican Primate of the West Indies, and ordained and lay members of the global Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) which is meeting in Accra this week.

The Archbishop's visit today follows the recent report published by the Church Commissioners of England into its endowment's historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery. In response to the findings, the Church Commissioners have committed to £100 million of funding to a programme of impact investment, research and engagement. The impact investment fund will invest particularly in communities impacted by historic transatlantic slavery.

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As part of the increasingly urgent debate about slavery and its legacy, a troubling question arises: how much can we trust the church?

Because the recent revelation that Thomas Secker, the 18th-century archbishop of Canterbury, approved payments for the purchase of enslaved Africans on two Barbadian sugar plantations raises serious issues about the integrity and capability of the reparative justice initiatives of the Church of England and the United Society Partners in the Gospel(USPG), the Anglican mission agency that supports churches around the world.

In 1758, Secker agreed to a reimbursement of £1,093 to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), which operated the Codrington estate in Barbados as an ongoing concern from 1710 to 1834, after accepting the two plantations (Upper and Lower) as a gift from the violent settler colonialist Christopher Codrington (1668-1710).

And there was no piety there. In discussing the plantations in his 2012 book, Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World, the historian Travis Glasson argued that Christian ownership made little difference to the life of the enslaved. For years, the word "Society" was branded on to the chests of newly arrived captive Africans as a mark of ownership.

The revelation that Secker- serving as the archbishop of Canterbury and the president of the SPG -had direct involvement in the atrocity that was chattel slavery calls into question the notion that the Church of England and the SPG were separate financial entities, and underlines the church's material and spiritual interest in running the Codrington estate. The omissionof this historical fact from last year's exhibition on the church's links with slavery at Lambeth Palace library, Enslavement: Voices from the Archives, is significant. Especially as the exhibition presented artefacts from other missionary organisations, such as the abominable Select Parts of the Holy Bible, for the Use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Island, or "Slave Bible", which omitted any passages related to rebellion or liberation.

The USPG (the successor organisation to the SPG) says it has taken "full responsibility" for its role in the Codrington plantations, and has established a renewal and reconciliation project in Barbados in partnership with the Codrington Trust, which runs the estate today. But what does "full responsibility" mean here? It has pledged to spend £7m in the country in reparations. But why £7m?

Calculations using the same method from the Brattle report for transatlantic chattel slavery, the most comprehensive analysis (thus far) of reparations, suggests the actual debt is approximately £6bn: £7m is a bargain basement reparations deal for the USPG.

Thomas Secker (1693-1768), former archbishop of Canterbury. Photograph: Alamy

Indeed, "bargain basement" seems to be the church's chosen approach. Earlier this year, an oversight group assigned to assess the church commissioners' offer of £100m challenged that settlement. No one knows how the commissioners reached the £100m figure, and the group demanded a tenfold increase for the commissioners to arrive nearer the estimated worth of its unholy investment in chattel slavery, reckoned to be £1.3bn.

The British church's behaviour seems odd here and in the Caribbean. In Barbados, Trevor Prescod, chair of the national taskforce on reparations, declared himself disappointed and disrespected at learning of the USPG/Codrington Trust compensation deal, which was made in 2023 without consultation with his taskforce. For the Anglican mission to cut an individual deal with the Codrington Trust, without fully involving the people appointed by the Barbados government to represent the citizenry on all reparations matters, speaks to the unequal power relationship in these negotiations - and the lack of genuine public scrutiny.

Other denominations have also struggled to convince. In April, when the United Reformed Church sent a delegation to Jamaica to apologise for its historical role in chattel slavery, Jamaicans were perturbed by the existential absurdity of seeing Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson, a Black British woman and the current leader of the denomination - herself a descendant of the Caribbean's enslaved - delivering its apology to Black Jamaicans.

Are these mishaps part of the learning experience, or do they represent a fundamental problem with church-based reparations? The answer, I suggest, is the latter. It seems apparent that these church groups are commandeering the reparations discourse, controlling the financial settlements and, ultimately, letting down the descendants of enslaved peoples.

One wonders what else there is about their past activities that we don't yet know. And why are these churches offering so-called reparations settlements when it appears they haven't done enough research into the full extent of the historical crimes against Black humanity, including their own entanglement with racism in Britain? It's an insult to the memory of the enslaved and, according to respected analysis, a fraction of what is owed.

The scale of the crime is beyond debate. The Codrington estate was described by the Anglican archbishop of the West Indies, Howard Gregory (ironically, on the opening of the very 2023 slavery exhibition that excluded the Codrington estate story), as "a symbol of the worst of slavery".

The church's failure to act - to do the right thing - is generative: it implies that the descendants of the enslaved have been (re)missionised. This can be avoided, and it should be. The church seems bound by a terrible past, but as Jesus himself said: "The truth will set you free."

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"We'll be in trouble if these guys sneeze on us," Jason Ngan overheard as he and his brother got into a lift in Manchester's Piccadilly station. Born and bred in Manchester, home to more than 7,000 Chinese people, the legal adviser said the level of anti-Asian racism the coronavirus had unearthed was "shocking".

"People seem to have put a whole race behind it and it's exposing all these underlying prejudices towards Chinese people, or at least anyone who looks Chinese. It's shocking in this day and age. It was so blatant," Ngan said.

Ngan's mother runs a Chinese restaurant in Heywood, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. There had been "a real downturn" over the lunar new year period, particularly since cases were confirmed in York last week, he said. "It's been very noticeable, far fewer customers since all this started."

Despite only four confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the UK, Britain's 390,000-strong Chinese community have noticed a markedly racist response to the global health crisis.

In Sheffield, a postgraduate student was reportedly verbally and physically harassed in the street for wearing a face mask, while in Leicestershire two students - mistakenly thought to be Chinese - were pelted with eggs on the street in Market Harborough. The Manchester Chinese Centre has received scores of complaints of racist incidents targeting children in schools across the region.

North Yorkshire police confirmed they had received two reports of verbal abuse where individuals of an "Asian appearance" had comments about coronavirus shouted at them in York, and there was a further incident where staff at an Asian tea house had been verbally abused.

Last week the University of York, home to around 2,000 Chinese students, issued a statement calling for respect and tolerance after xenophobic and racist comments were published on the anonymous confessions page Yorfess.

The site was shut down, but the student newspaper York Vision reported that comments ranged from stating that the risk of the virus spreading was minimal because Asian students were "cliquey and unwilling to integrate", to one user not wanting to share cutlery with their international housemates.

It is relatively common in some Asian countries to wear a face mask to protect against pollution and sickness, but in the UK some Chinese immigrants say wearing a mask makes them a target for hate.

Some members of the Chinese community reported feeling uncomfortable wearing face masks as people stared at them. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

Jingyi Qian, 24, a student at the University of York, said she felt uncomfortable wearing her mask in public "because people stare at me." Hearing about the incident in Sheffield had put her off wearing one. "I don't want to get attacked, I just want to protect myself."

The abuse is not confined to big cities. Waiting for a train in Edale, Derbyshire, Alice, a charity worker, overheard a woman saying she didn't want a group who appeared to be east Asian to get on the train. She said the woman's friend must have tried to reason with her because she then said: "I'm looking out for myself!"

The deeper prejudices exposed by the coronavirus are symptomatic of a long history of demonising Chinese people, according to Jex Wang, a Chinese-Australian DJ and writer, who was sent threatening, racist abuse after writing about the coronavirus on Instagram.

"Stereotypes of Asians as submissive and non-aggressive make them a target that people think they can make fun of and laugh at. I've seen posts saying Chinese people are dirty, disgusting, uneducated, we 'deserved' the virus because of our 'weird' food habits," she said.

"I kept seeing memes and jokes being shared which really upset me. There was even a coronavirus-themed club night in Sheffield that got shut down - they were offering 'traditional Chinese hats' to the first 100 people. What is a traditional Chinese hat??"

After calling out the problematic behaviour and language surrounding the coronavirus on Instagram, her inbox was soon flooded with such "hateful" messages that she had to turn comments off on the post. "People accused me of eating bats, told me to go back to China, that I had betrayed the west, I was even accused of fraternising with the Chinese Communist party." One message said: "China needs to be cancelled. Period."

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Justin Welby said the report was 'the beginning of a multi-generational response to the appalling evil of transatlantic chattel enslavement'. Photograph: Doug Peters/PA

The Church of England will aim to turn a £100m financial commitment into a £1bn fund to address the legacy of slavery in order to reflect the scale of "moral sin".

The church should work in partnership with other organisations to create the fund that will be used to invest globally in black-led businesses and provide grants, says a report from an independent group of advisers commissioned by the C of E.

The £100m initially earmarked by the Church Commissioners was insufficient "relative either to the scale of the [commissioners'] endowment or to the scale of the moral sin and crime", it said.

The Church Commissioners, the body that manages the C of E's huge financial assets, accepted the report in full. However, the commissioners are not increasing the £100m investment but are aiming to attract co-investors to increase the fund's value.

Gareth Mostyn, the chief executive of the Church Commissioners, said £100m was the "appropriate financial commitment ... at this stage" while ensuring that they could honour existing commitment to parishes and other church activities. The commissioners would "at some point in the future consider whether to invest more".

A £1bn fund would dwarf moves made by other UK institutions to address the legacy of slavery.

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, said the report was "the beginning of a multi-generational response to the appalling evil of transatlantic chattel enslavement".

The Independent Oversight Group was set up after the C of E publicly acknowledged its historical benefit from the international slave trade in January 2023. The origins of the C of E's £10bn endowment fund were partly traced to Queen Anne's Bounty, a financial scheme established in 1704 based on transatlantic chattel slavery.

At the time, Welby said the church must "take action to address our shameful past" and the Church Commissioners announced a £100m fund over the following nine years.

The oversight group said the proposed fund was "very small compared to the scale of racial disadvantage originating in African chattel enslavement" and the timeline for delivery should be accelerated.

Instead, it proposed a "fund for healing, repair and justice" with a target of £1bn. The group said the fund should aim to attract capital from three sources: the Church Commissioners; "other institutions once complicit in African chattel enslavement"; and contributors who "outraged by injustice, wish to make common cause against racial inequality".

Among those likely to be approached to join the initiative are pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, ultra-high net worth individuals and foundations.

The consequences of slavery had "caused damage so vast it will require patient effort spanning generations to address", the report said.

The fund will be black-led, and will invest in members of disadvantaged black communities, it said. It "will aim to back the most brilliant social entrepreneurs, educators, healthcare givers, asset managers and historians. It will not pay cash compensation to individuals or provide grants to government bodies."

The report also recommended that a "significant share" of the Church Commissioners' extensive property portfolio "increases socioeconomic mobility across racial lines by launching and expanding initiatives to provide competitive and/or below-market leases to black businesses".

It called for a fresh apology from the C of E for "denying that black Africans are made in the image of God and for seeking to destroy diverse African traditional religious belief systems".

The Right Rev Dr Rosemarie Mallett, the bishop of Croydon and the group's chair, said: "No amount of money can fully atone for or fully redress the centuries-long impact of African chattel enslavement, the effects of which are still felt around the world today."

The impact of slavery persisted today, she said, and was "measurable and apparent in everything from pregnancy and childbirth outcomes to life chances at birth, physical and mental health, education, employment, income, property, and the criminal justice system. We hope this initiative is just the start and is a catalyst to encourage other institutions to investigate their past and make a better future for impacted communities."

The historian and broadcaster David Olusoga told the BBC: "I'm very pleased to see the church recognising that it has a catalytic potential. This is an organisation that is hugely respected around the world that can inspire other organisations to make the same leap into their own history."

Last year the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, apologised for the role the newspaper's founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice with more than £10m ($12.3m, A$18.4m)dedicated specifically to descendant communities linked to the Guardian's 19th-century founders.
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The Church of England will aim to turn a £100m financial commitment into a £1bn fund to address the legacy of slavery in order to reflect the scale of "moral sin".

The church should work in partnership with other organisations to create the fund that will be used to invest globally in black-led businesses and provide grants, says a report from an independent group of advisers commissioned by the C of E.

The £100m initially earmarked by the Church Commissioners was insufficient "relative either to the scale of the [commissioners'] endowment or to the scale of the moral sin and crime", it said.

The Church Commissioners, the body that manages the C of E's huge financial assets, accepted the report in full. However, the commissioners are not increasing the £100m investment but are aiming to attract co-investors to increase the fund's value.

Gareth Mostyn, the chief executive of the Church Commissioners, said £100m was the "appropriate financial commitment ... at this stage" while ensuring that they could honour existing commitment to parishes and other church activities. The commissioners would "at some point in the future consider whether to invest more".

A £1bn fund would dwarf moves made by other UK institutions to address the legacy of slavery.

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, said the report was "the beginning of a multi-generational response to the appalling evil of transatlantic chattel enslavement".

The Independent Oversight Group was set up after the C of E publicly acknowledged its historical benefit from the international slave trade in January 2023. The origins of the C of E's £10bn endowment fund were partly traced to Queen Anne's Bounty, a financial scheme established in 1704 based on transatlantic chattel slavery.

At the time, Welby said the church must "take action to address our shameful past" and the Church Commissioners announced a £100m fund over the following nine years.

The oversight group said the proposed fund was "very small compared to the scale of racial disadvantage originating in African chattel enslavement" and the timeline for delivery should be accelerated.

Instead, it proposed a "fund for healing, repair and justice" with a target of £1bn. The group said the fund should aim to attract capital from three sources: the Church Commissioners; "other institutions once complicit in African chattel enslavement"; and contributors who "outraged by injustice, wish to make common cause against racial inequality".

Among those likely to be approached to join the initiative are pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, ultra-high net worth individuals and foundations.

The consequences of slavery had "caused damage so vast it will require patient effort spanning generations to address", the report said.

The fund will be black-led, and will invest in members of disadvantaged black communities, it said. It "will aim to back the most brilliant social entrepreneurs, educators, healthcare givers, asset managers and historians. It will not pay cash compensation to individuals or provide grants to government bodies."

The report also recommended that a "significant share" of the Church Commissioners' extensive property portfolio "increases socioeconomic mobility across racial lines by launching and expanding initiatives to provide competitive and/or below-market leases to black businesses".

It called for a fresh apology from the C of E for "denying that black Africans are made in the image of God and for seeking to destroy diverse African traditional religious belief systems".

The Right Rev Dr Rosemarie Mallett, the bishop of Croydon and the group's chair, said: "No amount of money can fully atone for or fully redress the centuries-long impact of African chattel enslavement, the effects of which are still felt around the world today."

The impact of slavery persisted today, she said, and was "measurable and apparent in everything from pregnancy and childbirth outcomes to life chances at birth, physical and mental health, education, employment, income, property, and the criminal justice system. We hope this initiative is just the start and is a catalyst to encourage other institutions to investigate their past and make a better future for impacted communities."

The historian and broadcaster David Olusoga told the BBC: "I'm very pleased to see the church recognising that it has a catalytic potential. This is an organisation that is hugely respected around the world that can inspire other organisations to make the same leap into their own history."

Last year the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, apologised for the role the newspaper's founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice with more than £10m ($12.3m, A$18.4m)dedicated specifically to descendant communities linked to the Guardian's 19th-century founders.
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No 10 condemns London theatre 'Black Out' Nights (article)

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by Peter Walker for The Guardian

Thu 29 Feb 2024

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Downing Street has condemned a London theatre's decision to stage two performances of a play about slavery for "all-black-identifying audiences".

Rishi Sunak's official spokesperson said it was "concerning" that the Noël Coward theatre in the West End plans to hold what it dubs "Black Out performances" during a two-month run of Slave Play, a Broadway production about race and sexuality.

The idea is not new and has taken place before in the UK, with theatres in London holding such performances for Daddy, by Jeremy O Harris, who also wrote Slave Play, and Tambo & Bones, by the US playwright Dave Harris.

Asked about the Noël Coward theatre's plans, the spokesperson said: "The prime minister is a big supporter of the arts and he believes that the arts should be inclusive and open to everyone, particularly where those arts venues are in receipt of public funding.

"Obviously, these reports are concerning and further information is being sought. But clearly, restricting audiences on the basis of race would be wrong and divisive."

Asked if this was a threat to strip public funding from theatres which stage Black Out performances, the spokesperson said: "It's a statement of principle that clearly the arts should be inclusive. And I think that particular taxpayers would particularly expect that to be the case when public funding is involved."

The cast of Slave Play appears during a performance in New York. For his striking scenic design, set designer Clint Ramos has earned a 2021 Tony Award nomination. Photograph: Matthew Murphy/AP

This would not appear to be relevant to the Noël Coward theatre, which is part of the Delfont Mackintosh chain of eight London theatres.

Slave Play, which opens on 29 June in London, starring Kit Harington, best known from Game of Thrones, was a huge Broadway hit when it debuted in 2019, nominated for 12 Tony awards, but was also disputed.

When Harris's Daddy was performed at London's Almeida theatre in 2022, the run included one Black Out night.

The producers of the upcoming production of Slave Play said their "intent is to celebrate the play with the widest possible audience".

They said in a statement: "We want to increase accessibility to theatre for everyone. The Broadway production conceived of Black Out nights and we are carefully considering how to incorporate this endeavour as part of two performances in our 13-week run. We will release further details soon. To be absolutely clear, no one will be prevented or precluded from attending any performance of Slave Play."

In 2023, Nadia Fall, artistic director of Theatre Royal Stratford East, wrote a Guardian article explaining why it was holding two Black Out performances of Tambo & Bones.

She wrote: "The play throws up challenging questions around what it is to be Black, so the director Matthew Xia and I felt it would be good to host a Black Out night - an opportunity for a Black audience to experience and reflect on the play from their own perspective."

She added: "I understand that this initiative isn't going to chime with everyone, and that's OK; that's why there are 28 performances that aren't a Black Out night. No one is excluded from attending."

An explanation of the idea provided by the theatre at the time described Black Out nights as "the purposeful creation of an environment in which an all-black identifying audience can experience and discuss an event in the performing arts, film and cultural spaces - free from the white gaze".

It added: "While this performance has been arranged for black audience members specifically, no one is excluded from attending."

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No 10 condemns London theatre for hosting Black Out nights

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Rishi Sunak's spokesperson says it would be 'concerning and divisive' to restrict audiences based on race at Noël Coward

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