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Operation Black Vote took part in the inaugural Cities of Migration Conference in Toronto 2012. These conferences are intense but dynamic. It is a space which not only challenges the negative hegemony about migration, but is bold enough to be on the front by being creative about the conditions they need to integrate, participate and succeed.

The Principal Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Mitchel McLaughlin MLA, last night hosted an event which gave Members of the Northern Ireland Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) community from across the province the opportunity to question Ministers on issues important to them.

Google Director Adrian Joseph spoke about one of the most moving ten days of his life.

He and his colleagues from the London-based Google partner Raleigh Tanzania to work in the Northern district of Karatu near Arusha.

Raleigh Tanzania has partnered with Google to bring a group of volunteers from their offices to Bassadawish, in the Northern district of Karatu near Arusha.

I never thought I’d see this headline from the Sun newspaper, but there it is for millions of its readers to see and digest.

It’s clear from the majority of your views, that my own take on the Clarkson outburst and what should be done differs. The majority of you want the serial race offender gone. Gone, at least from the tax payer funded BBC Top Gear programme.

I’m glad Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson has finally come to his senses and apologised for using the ‘n’ word during filming of the BBC programme.

"I'm sitting here begging your forgiveness",  he said as a part of a full apology

I know we suspect he got dragged kicking and screaming to the table of remorse, but he said it. And for Clarkson, who has made his name being an anti-hero, it was pretty grovelling apology too.

Sky’s new Caribbean channel

A new channel dedicated to Caribbean news and shows will launch in the UK this Saturday. Devised and developed for the whole community by Caribbean Media House Ltd - JamTV goes to air on Sky channel 192 and Freesat channel 402 from May 3rd.

Over the last few days, news has emerged about three of Ukip’s candidates publicly making racist and disparaging remarks about BME individuals, Islam and immigration. The party has been trying to disassociate itself from these members by announcing the resignation of one of the individuals and the suspension of another, expressing apologies, and emphasising that the views of these members are not the views of the party.

Ratna Lachman, Director of JUST West Yorkshire has brilliantly pooled together an unprecedented series of statements directed to the nation's first Black Secretary of State Sajid Javid, who has, as part of his portfolio the Equality brief.

One would hope that having read the statements, the Secretary of State would convene a meeting with a number of delegates on how he and his Government can better deliver race equality. Watch this space. 

Home Secretary announces big changes.

The Home Secretary Theresa May, spelt out in the House of Commons today a ‘comprehensive package’ that should fundamentally change the way ‘Stop and Search’ is delivered in England and Wales.

Presenting her case to the Parliament the Home Secretary stated:

Nobody wins when stop and search is misapplied. It is a waste of police time. It is unfair, especially to young black men. It is bad for public confidence in the police.