I just have to say, we don't have a racism problem in the country because of the Brexit vote. We have a racism problem in this country because of long running cultural and social problems that we have chosen to ignore for decades. The Brexit vote has lifted the...
TV historian David Olusoga has thanked former England footballer and schoolmate "tough kid" Paul Gascoigne for stepping in to help when he was subjected to racist abuse as a child.
Born in his father's home country of Nigeria, Olusoga moved to his mother's home of Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, when he...
From Dorset to Oxfordshire to London to Bristol and beyond the campaign is spreading to change the school curriculum and to dump the colonisation of it by a parochial and de contextualised curriculum.
As part of this a student has launched a petition calling for all schools in the UK...
This racially profiled image is prominently displayed on the Weymouth and Portland Police Facebook page. The unacceptable message to the public is clear - young black men are responsible for so-called county lines drug-trafficking.
If this image was deliberately posted by our local police, it goes a long way towards...
Stand Up To Racism Dorset has received “sincere apologies” from Dorset Police after campaigners complained of racial profiling by the force on social media.
When Weymouth and Portland police used an image of a young Black man to accompany a Facebook post on “county lines” drug dealing, Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) wrote to the Chief Constable and...
Racism is a pervasive and malignant trait. It is selfish and extremely damaging to others across all ethnic groups. It is also very damaging to the perpetrators, who live a life of ignorance and low empathy. Low empathy levels have been shown to detrimentally impact the immune system and...
Rubika Shah’s energising film charts a vital London protest movement. Rock Against Racism (RAR) was formed in 1976, prompted by ‘music’s biggest colonialist’ Eric Clapton and his support of racist MP Enoch Powell. White Riot blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant...
When I was at school in the late eighties; aged 11 as a class we were asked to write a report, which would have to be read out to the class about something important to us. We spent the morning writing away, knowing in the afternoon we’d have to...
Made up terms. No depth or context. Just the walking dead making unfathomable noises. This sums up the way racists and the far right largely treat black people when they refuse to accept the abuse, exploitation and cancelling.
This very brief discussion bring many of these topics to the fore...
The Roma Flag will be flying over County Hall this weekend and on Monday in commemoration of the deaths of the 23,000 Roma and Sinti murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Of the men, women and children collected up and sent to the concentration camp 20,000 were murdered and the...
