Blog

How has the COVID pandemic affected Black mental health? By Yusef Alam

As the Premier League starts up and players continue to take a knee against systemic racism, Callum Ferguson looks at enduring lack of British footballers from Asian backgrounds at all levels of the national game.

Ten years after the shooting of Mark Duggan and the uprisings that followed - how far have relations between the police and Black people come? Guest Blog by Abigail Ukbai

Thanks to years of campaigning, June 22^nd is now recognised in the UK as Windrush Day, a time to acknowledge the contribution of a generation not only from the Caribbean and African but other parts of the Commonwealth.

Blog by CORE Chairperson: David Weaver - in Memory of George Floyd

Guest blog by Dr Sanjiv Lingayah.  After a tumultuous 2020, marked by the disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 on racially minoritised populations and the murder of George Floyd, we have been reminded how racism shows up in painful, sometimes deadly ways.

If black lives didn’t seem to matter in 2020, they mattered even less four decades earlier.

Forty years ago this weekend (Sunday 18 January 1981), a joyous 16th birthday party in a South London home, turned into a tragedy after 13 black youngsters were killed when the house became a deadly inferno.