New World Steel Orchestra: a goodwill message
It gives me great pleasure to publish this message, marking the achievements of the New World Steel Orchestra (NWSO) in Chapeltown Leeds in 2012. Among those achievements were the massive contribution...
View ArticleThe exclusion epidemic that won’t go away
Black Caribbean boys are three times more likely to be excluded from state schools than their classmates, a study has found. The Children’s Commission report, They Go The Extra Mile, published on March...
View ArticleWhen Stephen met Trayvon
Stephen Lawrence – 1993 to 2013 and continuing… Trayvon Martin – 2012 to 2013 and continuing… So, who will guard and police the guards? Who and what are those guards protecting and on whose behalf?...
View Article50 years after Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ Speech
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
View Article‘The Black Vote’ and the 2015 General Election
The Reverend Jesse Jackson (pictured above) came to town last week to support Operation Black Vote’s (OBV) voter registration campaign. The veteran civil rights activist was a protégé of Martin Luther...
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