Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

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My dad was pulled over by the police because he was driving a BMW and they thought he’d stolen it + Banging the drum … Moses Boyd, who calls his music ‘an extension of the diaspora’. Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images

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. Teachers refused to test me for dyslexia and instead told my parents to stop speaking other languages at home + 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.” MyLondon put seven questions to the police about the events surrounding the shooting of Mr Kaba. The Met did not provide a response to the questions, but referred MyLondon to the IOPC. Among these questions were inquiries as to why a non-lethal weapon wasn't used by armed officers and if Mr Kaba had been asked to exit the vehicle before he was shot. When Mark Duggan died, they cropped out the picture of his daughter’s grave to make him look like a thug +

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How can/will the Casey report be different. Will the rug and brush just get that much bigger to help shift the dirt deeper underneath for another few decades more. NOT if we have anything to do with the landscape to help break the old fashioned out of date model of policing. I always presumed racism would always be here, that it was a given. But the truth is, it was not always here, it was invented.” David Olusoga 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. Academics, Professor Lawrence Goldman hit out at ‘moral failure’ over decision to ‘take money from a fund established by proven and known fascists’

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. Perhaps that is what makes this moment critically important, and what makes the breadth of experience reflected in this collection justified: whereas we have become used to simply asking for space to breathe, our imagination has now been expanded. We see that not only is a new world possible, it is ours to win. 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. -

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. You will be familiar with much of what we present here. We can’t offer you a fresh perspective on these, but we can navigate our way through the material, looking for self-education and challenge, try to keep our minds open and to absorb the wealth of information, and the huge variety of stories, made available thanks to the work these writers, presenters, publishers and archivists have put in. I realised it's not because you're annoying, it's not because you're ugly, it’s because you don't look like them +

When Iradukunda confronted the girl and a fight ensued, the school attempted to exclude her, she said.It’s like playing Monopoly for 400 rounds and your turn was always skipped. How are you supposed to catch up? + On 31 May, poets and artists including Mandla Rae, Isaiah Hull, Saf Elsenossi, and Damani Dennisur, performed at Our City Speaks with Manchester City of Literature. Originally streamed online, the showcase is still available to watch. Events coming up in the next few days include the OWN IT! Online Festival – a week-long arts festival from 8-14 June, featuring writers such as Derek Owusu, Courttia Newland, and JJ Bola.