UK media tokenistic in its attitude to diversity, says Trevor Phillips
Former broadcaster and politician says TV in particular is ‘self-congratulating’ Trevor Phillips has said diversity in the British media can be
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Hang White People: Rapper Nick Conrad fined over YouTube song
A French rapper who was on trial over an online music video entitled Hang White People has been found guilty
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Fund to boost female and black physicist numbers
The scheme is funded by one of the world’s leading astronomers, Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The discoverer of pulsars
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Kim Kardashian criticised for letting Five-year old North West wear lipstick to church
Kim Kardashian is facing criticism for allowing her five-year-old daughter to wear lipstick to church services. The Kardashian family has recently
Read moreGrime music is being ‘stifled’, MPs say
Grime music faces significant challenges because of discrimination against urban acts, MPs have said. Despite the success of Stormzy, Dave
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Glastonbury 2019: Janet Jackson ‘promoted’ in line-up poster
You may have thought The Killers and The Cure were headlining this year’s Glastonbury Festival. It was, after all, officially confirmed by
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Why we’re creating Wikipedia profiles for BAME scientists
How an ‘editathon’ can help black, Asian and minority ethnic scientists — and science as a whole, explains Nicola O’Reilly.
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We know how higher education fails black students, so what’s stopping us from fixing it?
Almost every elder I know has uttered a version of the sentence: “Jobs like those are not for people like
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A black Bond?
Ralph Fiennes is an Oscar nominated actor, well known for roles in blockbusters including the James Bond and Harry Potter
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Only 1% of BAME Londoners on the organ donor register
According to NHS figures, 62% of Londoners waiting for an organ transplant are either Black or Asian. Many people from
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Christians need help to rebuild their lives
Despite death threats to him and his family, Pastor Abdullah has bravely chosen to stay in Syria and turn his
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What Catholic Church records tell us about America’s earliest black history
For most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to
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Oprah Winfrey publishing new Alicia Keys book
The singer’s book, More Myself, described as “part autobiography, part narrative documentary” will be the first published by Oprah Winfrey’s
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Actors call for more black hairstylists in Hollywood
Black actors are calling on Hollywood to hire more hairstylists who know how to work with Afro-Caribbean hair. Stars including
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The white Southerners who fought US segregation
Its racist past still hangs heavy over the White South. But as with anything, it is rarely as simple as
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