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The tennis player from Guernsey who hit her first back-hand at just five years old has won her first World Tennis Association singles title. On Sunday in Osaka, Heather Watson beat Kai-Chen Chang of Chinese Taipei 7 -5, 5 – 7, 7 – 6, holding her nerve in a tense tie-break in the final set. The win in Japan makes Watson the first British woman to win a WTA singles tournament in 24 years.

Marking Black History Month, the NUS Black Students Campaign and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, supported by the Venezuelan Embassy, are hosting a special meeting to celebrate the advances made by the Black communities in the new Venezuela.

Venezuela is an incredibly diverse society, situated in the Caribbean, three quarters of its population are of mixed heritage, of African origin or indigenous origin and has a past dominated by the slave trade.

Fevzi Hussein, life-long trade unionist and more recently a human rights activist with Embargoed explains why this Saturday’s demonstrations need your support.

We may never know just how much the world needs Barak Obama. As you get older there are times when you get scared easier. My greatest fear on the global stage is that if Romney wins the Presidency, and gives the green light to the ‘trigger happy’ Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, to bomb Iran, he will. Iran being a proud nation with leaders, who will not cow tow to Western aggression, would invariably retaliate. Thereafter, we will not know what demons would be unleashed but they could be catastrophic as they could be far reaching.

Today’s Trust for London report doesn’t make comfortable reading, particularly if you’re Black. This comprehensive report into low paid wages across London should shake the political establishment to the core. Truth is it probably won't. The figures which are truly shocking speak volumes: 20% of working Londoners or 1in 5 are being paid ‘poverty wages’.

Lee Jasper former Policing Director for London will call for Black officers to boycott the use of racial profiling in the discriminatory use of abusive stop and search powers. He also will call on National Black Police Association- NBPA- to lead the fight against racism in the British judicial processes.


The big talking point at the moment is who will win the election. No, not Romney or Obama, the big question in Hackney is who will win the Hackney Youth Parliament elections.

The Hackney Youth Parliament (HYP) programme is geared towards achieving a better and more meaningful involvement of young people in Hackney’s local government. Taking place every two years, with candidates that represent, four neighbourhoods the election winners will be announced this Wednesday 17th October 2012 at Hackney Town Hall.

A year ago this week 250 activists descended on St Paul’s Cathedral to protest against banker excesses and corporate greed which precipitated global financial collapse.

Formed in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy London aimed to highlight the injustices of the economic recession generated by the wealthiest 1%.

I don’t know whether or not Frankie Boyle is a racist. I don’t know him, never met him before. What I can say without fear or favour is that to make a joke about a mixed heritage non-white child with a disability, that panders to the view that ‘Black men are sexual predators’, is racially reprehensible.

Frankie Boyle is suing the Daily Mirror for calling him a ‘racist comedian’.

The normally quietly spoken Bishop Jackson from the New Testament Church of God in Birmingham, got angry. In a sermon that was to kick start Black-led churches encouraging their congregations to register to vote Bishop Jackson said: