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A wealth of scientific research shows that racial awareness and racial bias begin early (Picture: Professor Keon West) My son came home crying. This was not unusual. For parents, it is all too common for our children to be distressed by something, however incomprehensible, that happened during the day at nursery or school. However, on…
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Earl Gateshead has spent several decades behind the controls as reggae has evolved into a diffuse mainstream genre (Picture: Earl Gateshead/The Huge Reggae Show) Reggae has been part of Jamaica’s ‘starting gun’, given voice to Rastafarianism and fired up crowds from Trench Town to Yokohama. Yet when Earl Gateshead, one of the pioneers of the…
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So many Afro-Caribbean people live in Brixton that it has been nicknamed Little Jamaica (Pictures: Metro.co.uk) ‘You walk down the road and you can see a clear divide. There is them and then there’s us. Gentrification is isolating and excluding.’ This is how a mum who has lived and worked in Brixton for 13 years…
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While the likes of Hope Powell and Arthur Wharton are widely celebrated – many other trailblazers risk being forgotten by the history books (Picture: Getty/PA/Rex) Football clubs need to be ‘shining a light’ on their black pioneering players, with more research done to ensure players’ stories aren’t lost forever. To coincide with Black History Month,…
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Sayce Holmes-Lewis, right, attended a protest after the death of Chris Kaba (Picture: John Behets) Barely 11 years have passed since riots spread across London, sparked by the tragic death of Mark Duggan. People are now chanting the name of yet another Black man who died in the hands of the Metropolitan Police. Killed by a single…
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For many in London, access to safe air is a luxury (Picture: Getty Images) My daughter was four when I noticed she had awful flu symptoms; she constantly had a runny nose and was very stuffy. After she started reception at school, less than one month in, she was constantly in and out of class…
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video When she was nine years old, Awa used to find learning to cook with her mother boring and stressful. They cooked every day – mostly in the evenings around dinner time. Her mum needed everything to be…
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The Black supplementary schooling movement began during the 1960s (Picture: Getty Images/Maskot) ‘A people without knowledge of their history is like a tree without roots.’ Aged seven, I was first introduced to that quote from Jamaican national hero Marcus Garvey. It was on one of the posters celebrating Black heroes that adorned the classroom of…
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Tennis won’t be the same without the inspirational Williams sisters competing on the tour (Picture: Getty) Measuring the impact of Venus and Serena Williams, two all-conquering sisters from Compton, Los Angeles, is close to impossible. There is a depth and breadth to their stories that is utterly unique and, in many ways, beyond comprehension. Few…
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Frederick Douglass’ childhood was marred with violence (Picture: The Folio Society) He was one of the most photographed people in America in the 19th century, who ended up becoming an advisor to presidents – but Frederick Douglass’ description of his early years are heartbreaking. Born into bondage in 1818 on a Maryland plantation, before he was…
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