Local authorities raise pan-African flag to mark start of series of events for October across BritainBlack History Month launches with hundreds of events across the country this October, amid a new campaign encouraging people of all ages to share what …
UK drug laws used as tool of systemic racism, says ex-No 10 adviser
Simon Woolley says failure of drugs legislation is having a devastating impact on public healthBritain’s drug laws are racist and cause “high levels of mental health harm” among black people, a former No 10 race adviser has said.Simon Woolley said drug…
Black Britons: what impact, if any, has Black History Month had on your life?
Black History Month in the UK is observed in October and we would like to hear from Black Britons about what impact, if any, the event has had on their livesBlack History Month in the UK is observed in October and we would like to hear from Black Brito…
Anita Hill on sexual harassment and survival: ‘You have to think: what is my life for?’
Before Christine Blasey Ford and Monica Lewinsky, there was Anita Hill, shamed for exposing the actions of a powerful man. She explains how she withstood the tumultAnita Hill sits so still that, when she is not speaking, I worry that the screen through…
Inside the San Francisco Bay Area’s pandemic murder surge: ‘No one knows this pain but us’
Guardian analysis reveals region-wide increase in violent deaths, but Black and Latino residents make up majority of victimsOn the night of 3 September 2020, Sonya Mitchell got a call as she was leaving work. Her 23-year-old son, Daimon “Dada” Ferguson…
Benjamin Zephaniah: ‘Footballers have a voice and a platform. They aren’t taking injustice any more’
Writer, actor and activist explains how he fell in love with this England football team and his respect for players making a stand“I went to an England game at the start of the Euros,” Benjamin Zephaniah says while explaining how he has come to love th…
Amir Khan feels removal from American Airlines flight ‘racially motivated’
Boxer feels he and colleague were picked on as ‘two Asian boys’ a week after the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 The British professional boxer Amir Khan has said he felt his removal from an American Airlines flight in the US was racially motivated.Khan, …
‘My art is a protest’: disrupting ideas about black people in British rural areas
Madinah Farhannah Thompson’s art is informed by her experience as a black primary schoolchildGrowing up as one of the only black pupils at her primary school in Norwich, Madinah Farhannah Thompson says she felt isolated and that it affected her mental …
Bernardine Evaristo on a childhood shaped by racism: ‘I was never going to give up’
My creativity can be traced back to my heritage, to the skin colour that defined how I was perceived. But, like my ancestors, I wouldn’t accept defeatWhen I won the Booker prize in 2019 for my novel Girl, Woman, Other, I became an “overnight success”, …
New Zealand is no ‘off-grid’ safe haven from the apocalypse | Max Harris
From 19th-century colonists to today’s super wealthy, New Zealand has been wrongly depicted as a ‘blank slate’New Zealand has become the prime destination for the world’s wealthy elite. Their relocation could be to do with the country’s famous scenery …