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Operation Hope and Recovery is a response to the recent riots which have blighted the nation. Operation Hope and Recovery is a collection of individuals, organisations and churches working together to attempt the largest political empowerment programme this nation has ever seen.

OHR calls for unity, working for political participation, and building economic enterprise. One demands justice and equality, the other creates wealth and jobs.

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When I helped draft that 1963 speech, none of us imagined an African American president. But US society is far from post-racial

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”.

Martin Luther King’s dream is not yet fully realised but he was proclaimed a hero national for improving US civil and human rights, and a day set aside for his rememberance.

The federal holiday is celebrated every third Monday of January since 1986, and Americans is put on hold while the country remembers the hero and his dream.

Operation Black Vote and Department of Communities and Local Government Parliamentary Shadowing Scheme graduates today.
 
Diane Abbott Shadow Minister for Health will lead the reception with senior ministers and peers including, Peter Bottomley and Baroness Scott taking part.  The Parliamentarians and graduates will today recognise and celebrate the value of improving diversity within the highest tier of our democracy.
 

Last week Conservative by-election candidate Kasif Ali denied media reports that his party was running a ‘soft’ Oldham by-elections campaign in favour of the other coalition candidate Liberal Democrat Elwyn Watkins; a contest in which Mr Ali balloted last to a Labour win.

Despite a commanding performance at the Treasure Select Committee this week and a meteoric rise to become an aid to the new Labour leader Chuka’s talents aren’t considered relevant in this astonishing comment by the Evening Standard columnist Stephen Robinson.

So the results are in and it’s a Labour victory not a LibDem wipe out that’s making the news.

Rumours and speculation in recent weeks spoke of a ‘soft peddling’ campaign by the Tories to ensure the LibDem’s didn’t get the thrashing they feared they’d receive.

Journalist and reservist Army officer Clive Lewis who served in Afghanistan over 2009, spent the last 6 months as a Parliamentary Ambassador on the OBV Parliamentary Scheme shadowing Labour Leader Ed Miliband.

Earlier this week he gave his view on the Labour Leader, today he eyes-up the Coalition Government.

This Coalition Government should have come with a health warning on for black people

I have a terrible admission to make.

The riddle of identity means I can live in the US for 20 years yet still be treated differently – by both black people and white