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• 11:59pm on Monday 19 April marks the deadline for registering to vote in the 6 May 2021 elections
• 9 May 2021 sees the first major vote in the UK since George Floyd’s murder
• Lord Woolley urges to register now and demand to be heard
• Awareness campaign ‘All for nothing’ by Saatchi & Saatchi has been created to support Operation Black Vote

The campaign group behind Fivexmore are pushing ahead with efforts to raise support before a parliamentary debate on Monday, 19 April.

The credibility of the report on Race and Ethnic Disparities has taken a further hit after accusations that elements of the report were re-written. 

Campaigners are set to launch a new Legal Advice Clinic in honour of the late Windrush activist Paulette Wilson.

The Windrush Legal Advice Clinic, which is a not-for-profit organisation, will be based within the Black Country in Wolverhampton, which is where Paulette Wilson worked and resided.

Paulette who experienced the Home Offices’ hostile environment first hand campaigned to see its end. Crucially, Paulette Wilson took on the fight for justice not only for herself but to protect the rights and legal status of others.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has produced a politically rotten report on race, commissioned after the protests against the murder of George Floyd last summer.

The report, published by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, attacks those protestors for “alienating the decent centre ground” and describes the UK as a “model for other white-majority countries”.

Valencia have refuted Cadiz defender Juan Cala’s denial of racist abuse. In a strongly worded statement, the club has said that they are deeply saddened by Cala’s response, adding that he missed a ‘great opportunity to accept his mistake and apologise’.

Sovereign Comics, Liberty Lines and Youth Unity are nearing their £12,000 target. At the beginning of March, they began crowdfunding for support on a project dedicated to raising awareness and educating youth on the dangers of county lines.

Last year, the UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) revealed that despite a rise in the proportion of BAME postgraduate researchers between 2016/17 and 2018/19, the growth rate of 0.13% was so small that it would take half a century for BAME participation in postgraduate research to match the equivalent proportion at undergraduate level.

I can imagine the reaction of people of colour to the publication of the government’s race disparity commission. Many will either have screamed with anger or cried with sadness.

The commission’s chair, Dr Tony Sewell, told the BBC: “This is a truly historic report.” On that we agree: it is a truly historic denial of the scale of race inequality in Britain, delivered precisely at a moment in our national history when the opposite is required.

It's official: OBV CEO Lord Woolley has been announced as the incoming principal at Cambridge’s Homerton College.

In taking the role, he becomes the first Black man to be elected as head of an Oxbridge college. He follows the path of Sonita Alleyne and Baroness Amos becoming only the third black person to hold such a position.