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In a ground breaking speech, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi stated:

Discrimination, intolerance, prejudice and bigotry - we need to stamp these out if we want to be better intergrated….Fighting bigotry and intolerance is key to enable people to intergrate, to participate and to reach their full potential.

In her first major speech since the Government reshuffle, Warsi made it clear that tackling these problems has wider implications than just a moral imperative:

On November 15, the results of the Coalition Government's reforms to the police will become clear for all to see. Elections foe the role of Police and Crime Commissioner in 41 Constabulary areas in England and Wales outside London will take place for the first time, and the effects the results and the institutions themselves will have upon the affected communities remains to be seen. However, there is some cause for concern when the details are examined.

The Foreign Office minister believes her party must learn from President Barack Obama’s recent triumph.

And in a warning to David Cameron, she ups his call for an Aspiration Nation with the need for “an Integration Nation”.

She will insist our prosperity is being damaged by barriers preventing non-white groups from succeeding.

The 41-year-old of Pakistani origin will claim Britain would be £8.6billion a year richer if minorities were empowered.

She will say in a speech:

Marvin Rees may not be  the UK’s Barack Obama, but if he is elected, like President Barack Obama he will make history and he will inspire hundreds of thousands of Black people in the UK and beyond.

If Marvin is elected on the 15th of Nov, he will become the first directly elected Mayor of African descent, not just in the UK but right across Europe. Equally, governing a major city with a nearly 400 million pound budget, he becomes on of the most powerful Black men in the country .

We are counting them out and counting them in, as the BBC man Brian Hanrahan said during the Falklands conflict. We are doing much the same as senior officials move the chairs around at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. A very strange process it is too.

There are interviews this week, but already we know that two commissioners, Simon Woolley and Lady Meral Hussein-Ece, have been judged surplus to future requirements by the new commission chair, Lady O'Neill.

Barack Hussain Obama once again made history by winning an historic second term.

Much of the world will rejoice that Obama will now finish the job he started and bring greater stability to the global economy whilst giving hope to both the poorest in the US and across the world.

The Black world rejoices that a good man was not dragged down by the naysayers, some of whom could not bare to see a Black man in the White House.

Good Luck President Obama. We salute you.

Simon Woolley

Research from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) earlier this year revealed that some Police forces were several times more likely to use stop-and-search powers against black people than white people. This racial disproportionality in the statistic led the EHRC to conclude that any continuation of this disproportionality may indicate a breach of the law as they are not complying with their public-sector duties obligations.

After the infamous recount in the 2000 presidential election, Florida earned an international reputation for election foul-ups. OBV’s Francine Fernandes, visits Florida to explore what is happening on the ground.

As the final countdown for the US Presidential Election approaches, 6th November is also a critical election for a number of public positions including senators, councillors, judges and even members of the school board. OBV’s Francine Fernandes reports directly from New Orleans.

As the global media fixates on the race for the US President, a less well known but equally fascinating race will be taking place in the city of New Orleans.