Black pupils’ schooling ‘dumbed down over special needs’
Many black pupils in England are having their education dumbed down after being wrongly identified as having one of a
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Nigerian General Election – Five things about Nigeria: The superpower with no power
More than 84 million Nigerians are geared up to vote on 16 February, but what do you know about Africa’s
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Small Island and Long Song author dies aged 62
British author Andrea Levy, whose award-winning novels captured the black British experience in the years after Windrush, has died at
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North Korean Christians say situation is worsening despite Trump-Kim summits
President Trump announced in his State of the Union speech that he would hold a second summit with Kim Jong-un
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Black Church Gives $100k to Howard University to Pay Off Students’ Debt
One of the United Sates oldest Black churches just gave a huge donation to Howard University students who were struggling to pay
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‘I wanted to do more for people than just pray’: Pastor blends faith, farms to end food insecurity in black churches
Several years ago, Rev. Heber Brown III decided he needed to do more than pray. The now 38-year-old pastor at
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Why this year’s Black History Month is pivotal
2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 19 enslaved Africans, brought to mainland English North America for the first
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church groups want ‘lords of chaos’ movie to be banned
Lords of Chaos hasn’t even been released in the UK yet, but there are already calls for the film to be
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Cambridge student ‘detained in hellhole’
A Cambridge University student facing the death penalty in South Sudan is being “arbitrarily detained in a modern-day hellhole”, his
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Haile Selassie: Why the African Union put up a statue
A statue of Ethiopia’s last emperor has been unveiled outside the African Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The likeness
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The World Wars were not ‘white’ wars. The interfaith community must make sure that BAME soldiers are honoured and remembered
Looking through the history books on World War I and II, you could be forgiven for thinking that only white
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Soweto Gospel Choir shines at Grammys
South Africa’s Soweto Gospel Choir has won the Best World Music Album at the Grammys award ceremony in Los Angeles
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Bafta winner Letitia Wright – “I identify myself as a child of God”
Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who won the Bafta Rising Star Award, has revealed she nearly gave up acting due
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Uganda FGM ban: ‘Why I broke the law to undergo FGM aged 26’
Sylvia Yeko decided to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) three weeks ago at the age of 26 – even though
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Komla Dumor Award 2019: Seeking a rising star of African journalism
The BBC is seeking a rising star of African journalism for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, now in
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