Two Decades after the 911 attacks, British Muslims still feel the impact writes Yusef Alam.
THIS WEEK marks the 20th anniversary of the horrific 9/11 terror attacks on the USA in which over 2,900 people lost their lives. The event stunned the world and the impact is still being felt today.
We are being let down by our voting system, writes Shaan Sangha, from campaign group Make Votes Matter, the movement for Proportional Representation.
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 22nd 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. But due to policy from the UK’s Home Office over the last few years, the term ‘Windrush’…
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. Friends Yvonne Ruddock…
Minister for Women and Equalities Liz Truss set out the Johnson administration’s overhaul the Government’s equalities work this week, but it turned out to be nothing more than gaslighting on a governmental scale. Truss declared the fight for equality should be led by ‘facts, not fashion’ and claimed notions of structural racism, protected characteristics and…
