Linton Kwesi Johnson: “The police declared war on black youth”
The “father of dub poetry” on political verse, institutional racism and growing up as a member of the “rebel generation”.
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The Azeem Rafiq case shows the ECB can’t solve cricket’s problems
Cricket’s grass roots need to take control of their sport.
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Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…
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Is this the end of the Met Police?
An investigation has found it to be “institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic”, and raises the possibility of abolition.
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America’s oldest shame is violence, not racism
Ideology alone does not explain police killings in the United States.
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The narcissism of anti-racist therapy
Race experts are pushing flimsy solutions to real problems.
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How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a fixation…
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ChatGPT proves that AI still has a racism problem
Even the most advanced artificial intelligence is hindered by the inherently racist data it’s trained on.
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The dark heart of Roald Dahl
A streak of pure nastiness runs through the author’s anarchic, beloved children’s literature – just as it did through his…
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Ye, Adidas and the trap of celebrity anti-Semitism
Prejudice against Jewish people won’t be stamped out in America because the German sportswear company dropped Kanye West.
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Black people are almost four times as likely to experience homelessness as white people
A third of black people with experience of homelessness have faced discrimination from a social or private landlord.
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Political turmoil is no excuse for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
People are invoking a “globalist coup” after Grant Shapps, who is Jewish, was promoted to be Home Secretary.
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It’s funny how all of Jerry Sadowitz’s defenders are white men
Racial slurs and a man exposing his penis don’t hit in quite the same way for them.
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Why did no one listen to black women about Tim Westwood?
We’re viewed as “on the take”, never innocent, fragile or vulnerable.
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The English Cricket Board is “not fit for purpose”, says Azeem Rafiq
The former Yorkshire player says nothing has changed since he made damning revelations of racism in the sport.
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From the NS archive: War in the streets
11 November 1988: Why the crackdown on LA’s black gangs won’t work.
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Howardena Pindell Q&A: “A white parent tried to get me expelled from university”
The American artist on her love of Paris, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the paintings of Kerry James Marshall.
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Gary Lineker isn’t wrong to say he suffered racist abuse
True anti-racists know the boundaries of who is “white” are blurred – race isn’t biologically real.
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What Kate Clanchy’s treatment can teach us about racism
If society is inherently racist, how can she be cancelled for not being born woke?
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Of course South Asian women on Bridgerton is historically inaccurate – that’s literally the point
I’m bored with TV shows where we’re victims of racism or protective parents.
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