Racism

For Italian-Eritrean filmmaker and podcaster Ariam Tekle, there is no doubt that the recent killing of a disabled Nigerian street vendor, Alika Ogorchukwu, in Italy was a "racist murder". This is despite the fact that local police have…

"I do notice that I'm not being myself in the workplace," says Hilda Kwoffie. "I try to tone it down a little bit. You find yourself having to always slick your hair down just to fit in." The 24-year-old from Ghana says she's changed…

There weren’t many expectations of me when I was at school. Nobody I knew went to university so that wasn’t something I even thought about. Where I grew up, the choices seemed to be: deal drugs, work for the nearby car plant or somehow use…

As a former policeman, Hiram Johnson’s knack for investigations led him to use his skills on his own family.

When she began pursuing a dance career, she was told there was no room for a ‘brown swan’ in the London Festival Ballet.

It was an unusual hijacking by a group of three men, two women and three young children. They were Black Panthers who commandeered a Delta airliner, flew across the Atlantic and the adults never set foot in the US again, four of them…

In 1996, an African-American reverend called David Kennedy faced one of his biggest fights. A new shop had sprung up in Laurens, his small town in South Carolina, selling white supremacist memorabilia and housing a Ku Klux Klan museum. …

"On my first day in my first banking job I was waiting in the reception area and was mistaken by the entire company for a security guard," says author and satirist Nels Abbey. "They all showed me their ID cards one by one as they came…

When Yvonne Connolly took up a post as headteacher of Ringcross Primary school in North London the British media made quite a fuss. She received racial abuse but did not let the backlash stop her from delivering a good education service to…

In a historic victory, Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for her novel, 'Girl, Woman, Other'. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London. For her ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ was the manifestation of a…