To our members, You may have heard about the passing of Professor Jason Arday and how the coverage and reaction from the British media was vicious, inhumane and racist. It would not feel right for us not to acknowledge this loss. We recognise that racism, and the circumstances surrounding Professor Jason Arday’s death, may be…
When we look back at the images of Empire Windrush, we see that most of the passengers were young Black men. They were dressed impeccably, and they arrived full of hopes and dreams. Their journey to ‘the motherland’ was for many an opportunity to build on their already happy and stable lives in the Caribbean….
I spent much of my childhood in a largely white-working class council estate in the West Midlands, which to this day has suffered from decades of neglect, underfunding and poor-quality schooling. I grew used to the signs of ‘Keep Britain White’ and ‘NF’ painted on the walls as I walked on the streets. In those…