Archive for March, 2010

Photography by Bill Cooper & Richard Bolton

Black, graceful and gliding across the stage like a swan swimming along the surface of the water, London’s first black ballet dancers, Ballet Black has mesmerised audiences right across the country for years and are now taking their art and success to the international stage.

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Sven laughing all the way to the bank as Ivorians are in poverty

It has been reported that Sven-Goran Eriksson the former England manager and now newly appointed manager for Ivory Coast for the World Cup, will be paid up to £2 million in a country where over half the population earns less than £3 a day.

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Picture advertising the Moonfleece play on the Drum website in Birmingham

A play which challenges the BNP  has been banned by Dudley Council because they feared community disapproval.

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British immigration linked to wars caused by British foreign policy

In the run up to the general election immigration has once again become a talking point for politicians and the media, however not one person in the mainstream media will dare walk into uncharted territory and explain  that the main causes of immigration and asylum seekers is linked to corrupt British foreign policy overseas.

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Article by Vicki Butler©

Many Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people are at risk of exclusion from a new government money advice service according to a report by Runnymede, the UK’s leading race equality thinktank.

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Indian students hold a protest march from Royal Melbourne Hospital to Parliament.

One hundred Australian police officers are being investigated for circulating a racist e-mail showing the torture of an ethnic male.

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One of many BNP posters that was targeted at white Christians during the local and European elections last year

The BNP plans to ban black churches in white areas if they win election seats according to its leader Nick Griffin on Revelation TV last night.

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Report by Refugee Migrant Justice©

Child asylum seekers arriving in Dover, some suffering from illness or serious injuries, are being denied basics like rest, food and medicine before they complete oppressive and unlawful interviews with the UK Border Agency (UKBA).

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Katori Hall, the first black playwright to win the Laurence Olivier Award

Katori Hall, an African-American female became the first black playwright to win a Laurence Olivier Award yesterday for her play The Mountaintop.

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David Cameron, a vote for change or much of the same?

The Conservative Party are at the centre of a race row after being accused of ‘airbrushing’ out pictures of ethnic minority candidates from their campaign literature in areas where they are opposing the BNP.

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Reverend George Hargreaves

Black pastor Reverend George Hargreaves, leader of the Christian Party is to take on BNP leader Nick Griffin in a live debate to be televised on Revelation TV.

Reverend George Hargreaves is standing against Nick Griffin in the coming General Election as MP for Barking. He is also debating with Mr Griffin on Revelation TV tonight for one and a half hours from 9.00pm until 10.30pm.

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Report by Black Women’s Rape Action Project©

On Friday 19 March, most of the women who have been refusing food, suspended their hunger strike in order to avoid permanent damage to their health.  Women have vowed to resume the strike if the authorities don’t investigate their complaints about indefinite detention, appalling conditions and arbitrary removals – see women’s statement.  A legal challenge had to be mounted by Leigh Day solicitors to force the Yarl’s Wood authorities to carry out “medical risk assessments to ascertain the specific risk of refeeding syndrome and follow Dept. of Health Guidelines on refeeding.” Medical Justice is pursuing this.  No appropriate food has been provided and, last night, two women were sick.

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The British government’s double standards when it comes to free speech has been exposed as the English Defence League (EDL) and Unite Against Fascism protesters clash in Bolton.

With 67 arrests, and six people reported injured, including four members of the public and two police officers at the EDL’s march in Bolton, the pleads from Bolton Council and faith leaders in the community for the government to ban the march raises important questions. Exactly who is free to speak and protest and who is not?

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Are aid organisations vultures feeding off death?

War correspondent Linda Polman has delivered a scathing attack on Aid organisations referring to them as businesses “dressed up as Mother Teresa” and blaming them for prolonging wars.

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Is the king of cool coming to Crystal Palace?

According to gossip on Yahoo music Blogs Diddy has been in talks with the club owners and wants to bring Crystal Palace back into the Premiership.

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A symbol of pride or exploitation?

A black lieutenant in the Territorial Army wrote in the Guardian today that wayward black youths would benefit from a career in the army just as he did but is the military really the answer?

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Is the British media obsessed with black and white relationships?

On the Daily Mirror website today a story about a former BNP supporter who fell for a Jamaican woman was described as “amazing”, what is truly amazing however is the celebration of this story. Would they have done so if a white woman had fallen for a former terrorist?

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Who is really stealing British jobs

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has launched an enquiry into a company which advertised a job stating that the candidate should preferably be of ‘Indian origin’, but once again big companies are overlooked while they exploit human labour and stir race relations in communities.

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Will black entrepreneurs fall for Cameron's bribe?

Conservative leader David Cameron stepped up the general election political battle when he announced that under his government black entrepreneurs would receive more government support to tackle barriers which has spurned their success and ambitions yet he fails to acknowledge that many black people turn to self employment because of racism in the employment market.

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How racially equal is Britain?

Many political commentators and journalists see the problems associated with multiculturalism stemming from the fact that people should have a common shared culture rather than emphasise and celebrate their differences which is what multiculturalism is about as a political policy and ideology, however it can be argued that the continued problems with multiculturalism in Britain is more to do with the failure of race relations in general.

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