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‘Whiting up’ for the registration campaign was strange, but the message is strong: if we don’t vote in the election, we’re taking our very colour out of British politics

London is truly a global city. The capital represents what a globalised future will look like: increasingly diverse, dynamic and culturally vibrant. Magnus Djaba, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi UK, the world’s leading advertising and marketing consultancy, represents that future made flesh today.

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Britain, it is argued by some is now a post racial society. And in this ‘post racial’ world, the political and economic discussion on race inequality is no longer needed because, some claim, those barriers no longer exist.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The problem begins with largely monocultural political parties which seek to represent a diverse and multicultural society. At our present rate of progress in selecting Black and minority ethnic MPs in winnable seats, we will have to wait to 2060 to see a representative Parliament.

On Friday 10th April, the OBV eXpress voter registration bus made its penultimate stop of the nationwide tour at Palmers Green Mosque.

Black bodies are piling up in morgues of America and justice lies bleeding on the gutter.

The wretched reality for black people living in North American and Europe is one that haunts our every living moment. White supremacy is such that one of the consequences of racism is that we we are routinely disbelieved. White privies and institutional racism collide in a toxic mix

Coventry today hosted the Operation Black Vote eXpress voter registration bus. OBV research has shown that BME communities could decide who wins in over 168 marginal seats.

The striking orange vehicle aimed to encourage and inspire communities to play a full and positive role for greater social and racial equality, and to get people on board to register to vote online.

To shoot someone in the back can only be described as a cowardly act. What happened next to Walter Scott by the police officer who shot him can only be described as despicable.

A North Charleston officer Michael Slager shot Walter Scott in the back eight times as he ran away from a traffic violation in South Carolina. As Mr Scott’s lifeless body lay on the ground the officer walks up to him drops his stun gun next to the body and then calls on the radio and shouts: “Put your hands behind your back now, put your hands behind your back”.

Nottingham Council and Operation Black Vote: Reclaim democracy - register to vote

(photos reproduced with the kind permissionof Paul Boast) 

The Operation Black Vote eXpress bus has been touring Nottingham since yesterday, trying to encourage people to register to vote and to inspire them to play a full and positive role for greater social and racial equality. OBV research has shown that BME communities could decide who wins in 168 marginal seats.

The Guardian's André Rhoden-Paul wrote a piece that was published on Good Friday about OBV's immensely successful roadshow stop at Waltham Forest college, where we were able to engage and inspire student to think about how they could shape the future of politics, and be the leaders of tomorrow. Here today, we publish it in full: Operation Black Vote battle bus makes stop in registration drive