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The Independent Police Complaints Commission have today decided overturn their initial decision not to investigate the death of Demetre Fraser, a young black man form Peckham south east London. Demetre was reported to have been visited by the West Midlands Police, (WMP) who claimed that he then committed suicide by jumping from the 11th floor of a high rise block of flats in the Druids Heath area of Birmingham.

A independent survey carried out by the consumer group PI revealed that most British Muslims think that TV news channels, BBC, ITV, and Sky’s current affairs reporting is biased against the Muslim religion.

Black parents across the country are asking themselves, ‘when is this murder madness going to stop’. Yemurai Kanyangarara, 16, was fatally stabbed seconds after getting off a bus, in what police suspected was a feud between pupils from two different schools.

The young school boy described as a ‘polite' young man by his headmaster was killed in broad day light on a busy Friday afternoon.

Many parents are now seriously contemplating leaving London, indeed some are even suggesting it ‘might be safer to go  back home’.

England’s system of education is failing to tackle race inequality. That's the stark finding of a recently published report. Of course black communities have longed complained about racism in the English education system. This report confirms that when it comes to the issues of discrimination in education, the chronic lack of opportunity in caused by discrimination is alive and flourishing in English schools.

“Changing faces: Cosmetics firms are forced to find a new image as beauty goes truly global".

The Black community’s history as a people both in here the UK and the wider world can be viewed as a series of on going struggles for equality and freedom. That history is punctuated with critical moments that represent significant and important milestones in our fight for justice and equality.

The ending of slavery, the right to vote, the campaigns for the independence of former British colonies, the civil rights struggle, the ending of the colour bar, the murder of Stephen Lawrence all represent such key moments.

Less than a week after Anita Prem launched her 24/7 help line-Freedom- to victims of forced marriages and ‘dishonour violence’, the Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has outlined a radical rethink on the issue by the Government.

Her work with the Pakistani Government has uncovered at least 124 cases involving British nationals that are on going investigations into forces marriages.

It increasingly seems that too many within of our political class suffer from Lacunar amnesia - the loss of memory about one specific event. The Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown famously told Britons that after the economic housing disaster of the nineties, Britain would never again be a nation of ‘boom and bust’, only to preside over an even bigger housing ‘boom and bust’, some years later.

Browns apparent loss of memory allowed the housing market, caused by excessive borrowing, to reach a margin that clearly was unsustainable.

Ian Duncan Smith panders to prejudice

Today the Work and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith, in a speech to be given in Spain, will engage in the worst form pandering to racial prejudice. Echoing the call of the hapless former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2007 he will call for British employers to employ British workers.

In seeking to respond to the news that over 90% of the 400,0000 jobs created in the last year have gone to ‘ Johnny Foreigner ‘.