On the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Director of BlkOutUK Rob Berkeley, shares his experiences at the intersections of homophobia/patriarchy and anti-Black racism. In the early morning of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. While police raids on gay bars…
Hood’, ‘ghetto’, ‘unprofessional’ are just a few of the phrases that have been used to describe the vernacular commonly used by young people from inner-city areas. In 2021, a South London school came under criticism for trying to ban slang words such as ‘bare’ and ‘innit’ from being used in school. The decision made to…
On January 27th, coinciding with the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945, Holocaust Memorial Day (which started in 2001) provides an annual opportunity to not only commemorate the Holocaust, but also to renew our opposition to all forms of racism. Commemorating the Holocaust inevitably brings up many issues, such as…
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.