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President Barack Obama today launched his campaign for re-election. A new campaign video was released and in an email to supporters he sought to lay the foundation for a lengthy campaign for the 2012 election saying:

“We're doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you -- with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers, and friends. And that kind of campaign takes time to build.

With increasing numbers of black trade union members turning up at my door requiring support for workplace race discrimination cases I have to ask the question what is the TUC and some Unions doing to ensure effective representation for their black members?

Other than a few policy statements and supporting the fight against the likes of the extreme right wing groups such BNP and the EDL the TUC has no clear leadership or strategy for tackling racism in the workplace that blights the lives of thousands of black workers. 

Councillor Mimi Harker OBE has announced that she will be standing for re-election as councillor in the ward of Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill for the fourth time in the local council elections next month.

Mimi was first elected in the ward in 1999 and has demonstrated incredible longevity in retaining her seat on the Council for over a decade.

I imagine Frank Bruno thought it would have just added insult to injury for him to trundle down to his local police station to report that he had just been humiliated by members of its own team.

Instead he mentioned the matter in a radio interview this week.

The former heavyweight champion told BBC Radio 5 Live how local police stopped him and accused him of stealing his own car.

Bruno said that he was driving his 45,000 (GBP) Mercedes ML sports car, with personalised number plates, when he was stopped by officers in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

The ACLT (African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust) has been saved from closure thanks to generous community giving after their appeal for help in January.  

Co-founders Beverley De-Gale and Orin Lewis launch a campaign to save the organisation which was ‘not in great shape’ at the beginning of the year.  

ACLT needed to raise a minimum of £80,000 by the end of March to avoid closure. And yesterday the organisation announced that it had not only reached its target but exceed it.  

A report by the Turban Campaign this week says Sikh groups are looking to expel EDL member Guramit Singh from the Sikh community.

The report states: “Sikhs opposed to the English Defence League (EDL) have issued an ultimatum to Guramit Singh, spokesperson for the EDL who claims to be of Sikh heritage.

The ultimatum calls for Guramit Singh from Nottingham to publically denounce and distance himself from the EDL by the end of the Vaisakhi festival.

A 5 year old lies critically injured on life support after being shot in a gang shoot out in Brixton, and the community are calling on Mayor Boris Johnson and Lambeth Council to take action says Lee Jasper.

David Cameron words of encouragement and backing of business start up initiatives should inspire our communities to think outside the box says OBV graduate and Conservative Party member Sylbourne Sydial.

The exclusion of any reference to race in a new report on detained patients' experience of mental health tribunals raises serious questions around the efficacy of this research human rights group Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) says.

The report entitled 'Patients' experiences of the First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health)', published today, details information from over 150 people that have appeared before a tribunal.