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New Cross fire – a turning point?
January 18th 1981 was a point of no return; an important historic moment in the life of Black Britain and arguably a defining moment for our modern diverse society. On that day a fire at a birthday...
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Boris J. youth violence strategy: ‘sabotaged’ and ‘a shambles’
Boris Johnson’s undertaking to get to grips with knife and youth crime was one of the most welcome of his pledges during the last mayoral campaign. Since moving in to City Hall he’s put time and...
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I find this latest Ofsted report both interesting and worrying. It comes at a time when there is a focus on the disproportionate number of black young people unemployed and the number getting 3 A...
View ArticleAn eulogy to Willis Wilkie
Every day in every community, ordinary working people do extraordinary acts of great selflessness and courage in the service of their community. We tend to hear and write about luminaries and...
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“To the barricades!”
On 13th May 2013, Diane Abbott MP put out a call to the 10th London Schools and the Black Child (LSBC) Conference: “Black Children & Education: After Gove, where next?”. “Michael Gove at Chantry...
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50 years after Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ Speech
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
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Black No More… Whatever happened to Britain’s black community?
Click here to listen to this programme It’s a controversial question… and some might go even further and ask: is there such a thing as the Black community in Britain? The idea was raised at a BBC UK...
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