Britain’s Missing Asian Footballers
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.
A Decade since Duggan
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
June 2021 ROTA Policy E-Newsletter
The June edition of our Policy E-Newsletter is now available HERE. This is our quarterly newsletter full of information about our work, our partners/supporters and what is happening around the sector in relation to race equality. If you have something you would like to include and publicise in our next issue, scheduled for end of July 2021,…
Windrush Day 2021 – time to consider how far we have come
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’…
Progressive Review: Guest issue editorial
When IPPR approached us at Race on the Agenda with a view to us guest editing an issue of their journal the Progressive Review, on the theme of race equality and justice, it was an offer we couldn’t refuse. We reached out to some of the great minds in our network and commissioned a number…
BME women almost twice as likely to be on zero-hours contracts as white men, ROTA and TUC find
Race on the agenda (ROTA) and The Trades Union Congress (TUC) have warned that structural racism in the labour market is trapping Black and minority ethnic (BME) workers on low pay and in insecure work. The warning comes as ROTA and the TUC release a joint report which reveals how BME workers are hugely overrepresented…
Student Mental Health and wellness survey
ROTA have launched a mental health student survey to learn their experiences of mental health and well-being during Covid 19. The survey is open to students attending London universities only. We are also keen to work with student unions to explore partnerships projects. Or use this QR code
CORE May 2021 Newsletter
Read CORE's May edition of the E-Newsletter now available.
The Sewell report a missed opportunity to address systemic racism?
The Government’s recent report on Race and Ethnic Disparities has concluded that there is no evidence to suggest the existence of institutional racism in the UK, and that Britain should be regarded as “a model for other White-majority countries”. This report from the Commission, which was established in response to the protests resulting from the…
Covid-19 mental illness and race: why are ethnic minorities more at risk?
A global pandemic, summers spent inside and cold winter nights under lockdown – if there is one thing the past year has shown us, it’s that mental health does not discriminate. Almost everyone – in some way, shape or form – has had to battle their own demons in the wake of Covid-19, with the…
