October is Black History Month in the UK and we are looking for contributions from young writers as part of our campaign, Making History. 2020 has seen the biggest civil rights marches and protests in decades, following the killing of…
The murder of George Floyd sparked something across the world. It forced us all to face the realities of racism for African Americans in particular, but people of colour all over the world facing discrimination and systemic racism. While racism…
Why do we have statues? Remembrance of great human beings? The celebration of people who were largely good? Surely not to remember slave traders. Since the removal of slave trader and philanthropist Edward Colston, a debate has been reignited around…
Kentucky House Representative Charles Booker surged into the US national spotlight in June with an unapologetically leftist campaign for the Kentucky Senate Democratic nomination. His progressive platform, which garnered high-profile endorsements from Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and House…
Darnella Frazier captured the footage of George Floyd’s tragic death and shared it on Facebook in May this year. Since then, it’s gone ‘viral’ – receiving over one billion views across different platforms and sparking social reform. Facebook’s ability to…
On a live broadcast at the end of last month, the US National Security Advisor to the White House made reference to the nation of Zimbabwe as a ‘foreign adversary’ of America, stating that along with Russia and China,…
As the Labour Party’s shiny new leader, Keir Starmer has got an unenviable task at hand. Since their unexpected and fairly disastrous general election loss in December of last year, Labour have undergone extensive soul searching about how and why…
Anti-racism protests, the result of the murder of George Floyd and others, have been met with a cool, even hostile response from some governments who seem unwilling to go beyond the usual platitudes. Over the last ten years or so…
The Black Lives Matter movement has been an element of public consciousness for almost 7 years now, since the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer in July 2013. It has now been 4 weeks since the death of George Floyd and…