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A council has been accused of being ‘racist’ for trying to rename a Plymouth square honouring slave trader and naval commander Sir John Hawkins after the city’s black football legend Jack Leslie. During the summer Plymouth City Council proposed renaming Sir John Hawkins Square after the Plymouth Argyle player who is the club’s fourth highest … Read more
A council has been accused of being ‘racist’ for trying to rename a Plymouth square honouring slave trader and naval commander Sir John Hawkins after the city’s black football legend Jack Leslie. During the summer Plymouth City Council proposed renaming Sir John Hawkins Square after the Plymouth Argyle player who is the club’s fourth highest … Read more
Two in five new recruits to the Metropolitan Police must be from ethnic minority backgrounds under new plans to quell Scotland Yard’s race crisis. In an action plan unveiled today, Met commissioner Cressida Dick admits the force is ‘not free of discrimination, racism or bias’ and has vowed to eliminate it. The developments come at … Read more
Hip-hip, soul, R&B… that’s NOT ‘urban’ music: Record labels are told to stop using ‘dehumanising’ term for black artists in bid to stamp out stereotypes UK Music has published a ten-point plan to ‘lay out a clear roadmap for change’ Commitment to stop using urban classification when referring to soul or rap Diversity taskforce says terms … Read more
Decades of structural discrimination led to the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, a review has said. Baroness Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, claimed there were structural inequalities within government, health, employment and the education system that Covid-19 ‘thrived on’ as the outbreak … Read more
BAME communities urged to volunteer for Covid-19 vaccine trials as figures show they account for less than 5% of participants UK Vaccine Taskforce was launched in April to ‘drive forward, expedite and co-ordinate efforts to research and then produce a coronavirus vaccine’ While over 250,000 Britons have taken part in trials since then, 93% are … Read more
UK Music says the acronym BAME is ‘outdated and offensive’ and needs to be consigned to the ‘dustbin of history’ to be replaced with specific terms like ‘black’ and ‘Asian’ UK Music is calling for acronym BAME to be consigned to ‘dustbin of history’ Taskforce seeking to improve diversity called the term ‘outdated and offensive’ … Read more
Ethnic minorities are overrepresented as actors and presenters on British television but continue to be sidelined off screen, new research suggests. People from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds accounted for more than 22 per cent of all on-screen TV contributions last year, while representing just 12.8 per cent of the UK population. But … Read more
Supreme Court president Lord Reed calls for more judges from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds as he says lack of diversity will become ‘shameful’ if it continues Lord Reed has taken over as president of the Supreme Court from Lady Hale He said the lack of diversity ‘cannot be allowed to become shameful if … Read more
Four of our iconic red post boxes have been painted black to honour BAME Britons including Sir Lenny Henry and nursing pioneer Mary Seacole Postboxes in London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast have been painted black They have been transformed as part of Black History Month in October Each box names a significant figure in the … Read more