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The Independent Police Complaints Commission has rejected the police’s report into the stun gunning of Edric Kennedy-Macfoy, a Black fire-fighter. Mr Kennedy-Macfoy, 29, was off-duty when he saw a young man hurl a rock at the police van. He then approached officers (in his car) to help identify the young man, when the group of officers turned on him believing he was the suspect because of his skin colour.

There is a collective assumption in the West that on this side of the globe we lead the way when it comes to female representation in politics. Britain achieved universal suffrage in the 1920s, elected the first female prime minister in the 1970s, and since then women have taken their rightful place at the heart of public life.

If there is one phrase word to describe David Cameron’s immigration speech on Monday it is ‘fear of the other’. He set out to show the ‘concerned’ public that he wanted to get ‘tough on immigration’, and that it is time to have a ‘sensible debate’ about immigration and some of the ‘coercive’ effects it has on public services and the changing demographic make-up of the UK.

The City of London Corporation is currently looking to appoint 2 external members to its Police Committee. The City of London Police is responsible for safety in the City of London, the Square Mile. There are about 8,000 residents in the City although this number is swelled daily by an influx of some 350,000 commuters, as well as people travelling through and visitors.

This year OBV celebrates International Women’s Day, taking the month of March to shine the spotlight on some remarkable women and their achievements. This article focuses on Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin.

Olivia Boland, Chair of the Suffolk Chinese Family Welfare Association and graduate of OBV’s MP Shadowing Scheme believes that the UK’s anti-immigrant policies towards Chinese tourists is not only xenophobic, but detrimental to our economic growth.

There is an easy, fast way to generate jobs in the UK - that is to stop the UK Border Agency (UKBA) shutting Chinese tourists out of Britain.

School governors, councillors, magistrates and MPs of tomorrow were in the spotlight at the launch of a unique civic leadership programme which encourages those from ethnic minority backgrounds to step forward and have a stake in their own community.

The unique scheme, organised by Operation Black Vote (OBV) and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, has selected 40 dynamic BME individuals from across Birmingham and Wolverhampton who are keen to develop a public role.

David Cameron can do justice to Britain's black first world war hero Walter Tull by posthumously awarding him a military honour

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There is a great African proverb:

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

Chinua Achebe:

Once I knew that I had to be a writer."