Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

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Below you'll find content suitable for use with both primary and secondary school pupils, including classroom resources from BBC Teach and content from across the BBC. Each BBC Teach resource is accompanied by teacher notes to aid classroom use. If you like many of us feel the school should be closed until a full investigation has been carried out make your voices heard. Swamba has since helped set up the Local Equality Commission, which works to combat racial and economic inequality in rural communities. “My role is a mentorship programmer,” she says. “I want to create an environment where people can be supported in various disciplines and have their voices heard on all matters of interest.” And of course white British people have been in Africa: running the transatlantic slave trade to the Caribbean and the US and occupying the likes of modern-day Nigeria and Kenya to Egypt and South Africa. In the syllabus for the most popular exam board, Edexcel, only one module, British America 1713–83: Empire and Revolution, makes a significant reference to the British empire. However, it is entirely focused on British colonisation of the US. A passing reference is made to Sir Walter Raleigh’s failed colonisation of Virginia in the module Early Elizabethan England 1558-88.

MyLondon put seven questions to the police about the events surrounding the shooting of Mr Kaba. The Met did not provide a response to the questions, but referred MyLondon to the IOPC. Among these questions were inquiries as to why a non-lethal weapon wasn't used by armed officers and if Mr Kaba had been asked to exit the vehicle before he was shot. Additionally, a series of changes to the education system means the national curriculum is taught fully only in local authority-run state schools – but not in academies, free schools or private institutions.

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The MET police force either needs to be abolished, broken up and disbanded. Subjected too a Royal Commission is the best way forward, some are suggesting. Academics, Professor Lawrence Goldman hit out at ‘moral failure’ over decision to ‘take money from a fund established by proven and known fascists’ The data shows that a third of GCSE students studied the modules centred on non-European or American cultures. Of that third, 95% were studying one of two modules on China under Mao. Three other modules focus on non-European/American culture outside the context of an invasion: the Mughal Empire 1526-1707; South Africa 1960-94: the People and the State; and Conflict in the Middle East 1945-95. Less than 2% (4,228) of all students studied these topics at GCSE. For the purposes of this comparison we have classified Russian history as European history. What happened to the empire?

But surely Boakye is just describing a heartfelt view; it’s hardly insulting. At times, This Is Not America possesses a surprising tetchiness, given that its author, a battle-hardened cultural critic, has remained largely unfazed by ugly online abuse from detractors targeting him as someone, he says, “who deviates from the orthodoxy” of race conversations. Photograph: Anselm Ebulue / The Guardian Tré Ventour 24 • Northampton • Writer and race equality activist First, some recent events that have been recorded and archived online. In March, UK poet Rachel Long, founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective, interviewed US writer Morgan Parker for Granta. Parker discusses her depression, her experiences growing up in a mostly white area, how this fed into her memoir Who Put This Song On?, and how the worldview and psychology these experiences gave her led to her developing the craft and technique she applies to her poetry-writing.It’s like playing Monopoly for 400 rounds and your turn was always skipped. How are you supposed to catch up? + He continued: ‘My story is not uncommon. My grandfather lost two siblings, their spouses and five nieces and nephews in the holocaust.’ Professor Goldman has written an Open Letter to all of the governing body fellows of St Peters College appealing to each of them personally to use their vote to stop the donation. When I apply for stuff like big office jobs and nine-to-five work, I'll have to tie up my hair because I have dreads + Banging the drum … Moses Boyd, who calls his music ‘an extension of the diaspora’. Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images Getting my voice heard has helped my younger siblings,” she says. “They feel like it’s OK to follow in my pattern. My 11-year-old brother made a movie about BLM to show to his class. I thought: ‘Wow, I could have never done that at that age.’” Shekinah Swamba, 19, Cheltenham