Last Saturday a group of youths in Redditch, near Birmingham, dragged a taxi driver from his seat, then assaulted and racially abused, leaving him with facial injuries, including a fractured eye socket and bruising to his face. A man and four youths have since been arrested on suspicion of assault. [...]
As I watched the disappointing closing ceremony of London 2012, I couldn’t get London Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ out of my mind. The song gracefully manages to juxtapose sweet saccharine nostalgia (“it’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it with you”) with an undercurrent of reality and menace (“You [...]
As thousands of children start school for the first time this week, a new study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research finds family experience of racial prejudice could be linked to poor outcomes for children as young as five. The UK’s first ever study of the impact of [...]
UB40 sang about 1in 10, well today one in six young people aged 16 to 24-years-old were not in education, employment or training at the end of June this year, according to the Department for Education statistics. The government figures showed there were 968,000 young people not in education, employment [...]
Nottinghamshire police have been accused of “blatant racism” over their use of stop and search powers. A new report shows that, while the number of searches has almost halved, black people are still nine times more likely to be stopped than white people. The force called this “unacceptable” and said [...]
A Cambridge University academic came under pressure to resign last night after students protested that he operates a website that features Nazi imagery, describes female immigrants as “exotic fruit” and claims that black people are “impulsive”, with lower IQs than other races. Martin Sewell’s site features a picture of Hitler [...]
One in five black students have been the victim of at least one racial hate incident during their current studies according to an NUS survey. The findings come after Crown Prosecution Service figures in February showed an increase in hate crime and nearly half (48%) of Asian and Asian British [...]
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