You can walk through the world, touching people’s hair because you think it looks fluffy but it’s a completely dehumanising thing that has its roots in human zoos. That’s the impact of omission, that people can walk around not thinking about the history of their actions.” My dad was pulled over by the police because he was driving a BMW and they thought he’d stolen it + Since the protests, many people have congratulated 17-year-old Lexia Richardson for speaking about her experience of growing up and going to school in a predominantly white area. “I think a lot of people I work with didn’t realise how much racism I had been through,” she says.

For many, that realisation begins young. Lexia Richardson, 16, from Abergavenny, said: “I remember when I was younger, my dad was pulled over by the police because he was driving a BMW and they thought he’d stolen the car.” We achieve everything not because we are superhuman. We achieve the things we achieve because we are human. Our strength does not come from not having any weaknesses, our strength comes from overcoming them' - Doreen Lawrence.

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Natasha and Aima had not met before they read each other’s tweets about Floyd. “I didn’t expect it to change me in the way that it has,” said Natasha, a creative writing and drama student. “Now, I wake up every day and I have purpose. I have something to fight for.” He has warned that accepting such a donation would be a disaster for the college and pose a threat to the existence of Oxford University. The advice had come from the US. It is just this kind of cultural cringe to the US, and the notions it exports to these shores, that sits at the heart of This Is Not America, Tomiwa Owolade’s timely intervention into the politics of identity. Owolade contends that Britain continues to cede authority to the US, especially in matters of race, and is blind to what should be obvious: we are not America.

Things like the Windrush scandal wouldn’t have been so easy to do if people understood what the Windrush was + We achieve everything not because we are superhuman. We achieve the things we achieve because we are human. Our strength does not come from not having any weaknesses, our strength comes from overcoming them" Doreen Lawrence.

Baroness Casey, laid it all out in the latest report. These been previous commisioned reports - The Lammy, MacPherson and Lord Scarman report, 3 previous reports before this 4th Casey Report. Past reports eventually gathered dust and all but disregarded. First, some recent events that have been recorded and archived online. In March, UK poet Rachel Long, founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective, interviewed US writer Morgan Parker for Granta. Parker discusses her depression, her experiences growing up in a mostly white area, how this fed into her memoir Who Put This Song On?, and how the worldview and psychology these experiences gave her led to her developing the craft and technique she applies to her poetry-writing. But surely Boakye is just describing a heartfelt view; it’s hardly insulting. At times, This Is Not America possesses a surprising tetchiness, given that its author, a battle-hardened cultural critic, has remained largely unfazed by ugly online abuse from detractors targeting him as someone, he says, “who deviates from the orthodoxy” of race conversations.

Over the past six months, Natasha says she has become more resilient. “I’ve learned so much, but I’m always keen on learning more … If you learn how the house is built, you’re going to know how to dismantle it.” Benitha Iradukunda, 25, Edinburgh The Metropolitan Police firearms officer charged (September 2023) with murdering Chris Kaba will be named, the Old Bailey has decided. Mr Kaba, 24, died after being shot in a police operation in Streatham, south London, last year. A judge dismissed concerns about the "real and immediate risk" to the officer, named only as NX121, if his identity was made public. -Author Reni Eddo-Lodge won the Jhalak Prize in 2018 for her book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, which has appeared on many lists as a resource for white readers to use to educate themselves. Her podcast About Race, from that same year, features interviews with figures in anti-racist activism in the UK, including Diane Abbott and Ra’ed Khan, to explore the history of race in the UK and how it leads to our society and its politics now. And of course white British people have been in Africa: running the transatlantic slave trade to the Caribbean and the US and occupying the likes of modern-day Nigeria and Kenya to Egypt and South Africa. The two events encapsulate the painful contradictions that have come to define this generation: young people are often told they live a post-racial society but their reality suggests otherwise.

When Mark Duggan died, they cropped out the picture of his daughter’s grave to make him look like a thug + Swamba has since helped set up the Local Equality Commission, which works to combat racial and economic inequality in rural communities. “My role is a mentorship programmer,” she says. “I want to create an environment where people can be supported in various disciplines and have their voices heard on all matters of interest.” Lawrence Goldman was a fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford and held a lectureship in the Oxford History Faculty for 29 years. For all that time, as well as teaching British History, he taught the history of slavery in the United States, particularly the final year Special Subject 'Slavery, Race and the Crisis of the Union 1857-1875'. He is now retired and an emeritus fellow of St. Peter's. Police strip searched nearly 3,000 children between 2018 and mid-2022It confirms just how badly our children are being failed by the the police AND as young as eight strip-searched by police. Sometimes while we adjust to a trauma music can often speaks for us can evokes emotions much louder and deeper than our own words at times.Feb 2023 - Five people including three girls aged 10 to 16 have been arrested, with police seeking a sixth girl age 15yrs to come forward, as they appeal for witnesses. He continued: ‘My story is not uncommon. My grandfather lost two siblings, their spouses and five nieces and nephews in the holocaust.’ Professor Goldman has written an Open Letter to all of the governing body fellows of St Peters College appealing to each of them personally to use their vote to stop the donation. Specific data about what history students learn at key stage 3 (aged 11-14) or in primary schools is not available. Within the curriculum laid out here for England’s key stage 3, schools are allowed to teach what they want. Fewer than half of students doing GCSEs in England, 45%, take history. But it is only at this stage that we can get information on the topics studied. Scottish and Northern Irish exam boards were unable to provide details about the modules taken at GCSE/national 5 level.