‘Missing White Woman’ syndrome: Is the media to blame for racial bias in police searches?
It is, sadly, unsurprising that middle-aged Nichola Bulley received ten times the amount of media coverage that thirteen-year-old Mariama...
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Estelle Uba
- Nov 18, 2022
- 4 min
The Woman King: When history becomes ‘herstory’
The word ‘intersectionality’ has become somewhat of a buzz word among feminists of colour. The term refers to how various aspects of a…
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Jamila Pereira
- Mar 21, 2022
- 1 min
Bissau, Nha Amor
Dear Bissau, what happened to you, my beloved? Where's the vigorous motherland of Creole and hippos dancing to Gumbe, I’ve heard...
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Tasha Johnson
- Sep 4, 2021
- 7 min
The trials and tribulations of an Olympic athlete: an interview with British Olympian Myrtle Augee
With the Tokyo Games still fresh in our rear-view mirror, we wanted to know more about the Olympics - is it as stressful as it looks? So…
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Abrehet Semra
- Aug 14, 2021
- 6 min
The Black Arab Experience: the silenced struggle of our black brothers and sisters overseas
In 2012, the Moroccan government refused to allow the formation of an anti-racism association on the grounds that race is a concept that...
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Tasha Johnson
- Aug 6, 2021
- 10 min
How diverse is the British entertainment industry?
Though the entertainment industry has certainly come a long way in terms of diversity in the past five years, there is still a lot of...
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Mabinty Taylor Kamara
- Jul 30, 2021
- 4 min
They took a knee, but where do we stand now?
In August 2016, for the first time ever, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided not to stand for the national anthem and instead sat on th
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Abrehet Semra
- Jul 23, 2021
- 5 min
How viral African dance trends have helped put Afrobeats on the map
In the 2021 Grammys, African artists had a lot to celebrate, with Burna Boy's album Twice As Tall (2020) winning a Grammy for Best Global...
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Andreia Cruz Borges
- Jul 17, 2021
- 5 min
How the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Final exposed the racism in British Football
After the painful year we’ve all had, the Euros 2020 football competition taking place this year was something that many people were...
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Abrehet Semra
- Jun 4, 2021
- 4 min
How being black and Eritrean triggered an identity crisis during my childhood
There has never been any point in my life where I’ve felt insecure about my Eritrean identity...
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Laura Asprilla
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
Calling all Africans in the black diaspora: Do you hear the voices of Afrolatinos?
In the UK, I found a safer space within the black British community than I did in Latin American society. Not only did the discovery of...
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Tanita Lewis
- Apr 8, 2021
- 4 min
The ‘Race Report’ aims to distract us from organising towards our liberation
On 31st March, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities published their first report which was met with sheer disbelief and outrage. In
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Estelle Uba
- Mar 31, 2021
- 7 min
Sarah Everard’s death is not only a reminder of sexism, it exposes misogynoir too
On the evening of 3rd March, Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive was on her way from a friend’s house in Clapham, south Londo
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