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The head of the EDL Stephen Lennon was jailed for 10 months after he used a false identity to enter the USA. As such he become an ‘Illegal immigrant in the USA’. Lennon pleaded guilty to using a friend's passport to board a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York. He was caught out after his fingerprints were taken by custom officials.

Not satisfied with consigning Mary Seacole to the historical scrap heap, the Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove, also has the same fate for another great Black Briton, Olaudah Equiano.

Head, and President of world footballing body FIFA ,Sepp Blatter has once again demonstrated why he should step down from his post.

Responding to the walking off the field by the Milan team which responded to the racism shown to Kevin Prince Boateng during a friendly against Pro Patria, Blatter accuses Boateng of ‘running away’.

AC Milan captain Massimo Ambrosini led his team’s retreat, 26 minutes into a friendly match with Pro Patria, after Pro Patria fans hurled racial abuse at Ghanaian-born Kevin-Prince Boateng. Boateng reacted to the onslaught by picking up the ball and kicking it into the crowd, he then tore off his shirt and walked off the pitch.

Introduction: In his first article for OBV Usman Butt takes a look at the Daily Mail headlines and deconstructs how it is trying to manipulate the reader which ultimately causes arm to all of us. Usman’s argument is very compelling, and forces us to be on our guard.

Simon Woolley

Due to the overwhelming response to yesterday’s story and conversations with a number of people such as Patrick Vernon who established 100 Great Black Briton’s we’ve decided to initiate a petition to the Secretary of State for Education to reconsider putting Mary Seacole back on the Curriculum.

As you will know, petitions are only note worthy when you respond; when we tell our Government that we care about Mary Seacole and we care about having diversity in our children’s education.

The Education Secretary Michael Gove has bowed to the detractors of great Victorian Mary Seacole, and removed her from the National Curriculum.

Gove has stated that students should learn about traditional figures such as Oliver Cromwell and Winston Churchill.

Truth is, Michael Gove would find it difficult to find a history teacher who sacrificed teaching either Winston Churchill or Oliver Cromwell for Mary Seacole.

The human capacity to focus on the good and forget or diminish the negative is one of the greatest assets we clearly have. Ask most people about the year gone by and many will respond with that incredible summer in which London and UK showcased multi-cultural Britain to the world during the 2012 Olympic games. And they loved it, they loved us. Above all for the first time that I can remember the nation collectively celebrated its diverse identity.