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A report in the Guardian this afternoon claims the talented  Kalveer Ranger, transport adviser to London Mayor Boris Johnson, has been moved from his post. In what some commentators consider a demotion Mr. Ranger will now head the Environment brief in a direct exchange with Isabel Dedring, who will take the his former role.

When the sun shines Scotland it is a most beautiful country. The Scots are rightly proud of their nation: its dramatic landscapes, and their fighting spirit. That pride is equally true from a growing generation of BME Scots who were either born north of the English border or have lived there long enough to, in part, to call themselves Scottish too.

Isn’t it strange how some people feel they have every right to live in every corner of the globe, and yet when others who look don’t like them live in their country they just don’t like it.

There aren’t many causes that can get me to engage with the London Underground system on a Saturday afternoon but the Campaign for Justice March held last Saturday had me intrigued.

With my weekend time being very precious, I planned only to attend the Rally element of the event, as opposed to the whole march. I travelled to Vauxhall and followed the route over Vauxhall Bridge and past the Houses of Parliament.

Those holding court about 'moving on from talking about racism and the new post-racial society’  should perhaps invite Salim and Sabana Amod and their four children to air their views on the subject.

The family are desperate to move out of their new house after suffering two years of racist abuse and vandal attacks on their home on Leicester's Saffron Lane estate.

A young Iranian Muslim girl has reported that she was attacked after refusing to remove her hijab by four young British women on her way home from school.

My local pastor, Bishop John Francis of Ruach Ministries, often talks about the power of faith being able to “change the atmosphere”. His sermons hint at the transformative power of deep faith capable of bringing about radical change in both your personal life and wider society.

A new report has found that as pupils from ethnic minorities achieve more in the classroom their white peers become ‘less tolerant’.

Five OBV Graduates will stand for election in their local council elections next month.

Ellin Joseph who is a graduate the from 2010/11 Parliamentary Shadowing Scheme and Natalie Nicholas who took part in the Liverpool Councillor Shadowing Scheme have added their names to the list of OBV alumni candidates who will stand in the upcoming local Council elections.

Rob Berkeley, Director of the Runnymede Trust, exclusively for Operation Black Vote about the impact of the Brixton uprisings, whether race equality has a place in the Big Society agenda.