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The English Defence League have identified the school which a teenage girl was recently arrested for allegedly burning a copy of the Qu’ran. The far right group, which has links to the British National Party, is attempting to capitalise on the arrest by calling for a mass book burning of the Qu’ran.

From Boyhood to Manhood Foundation (FBMF) are sending out an early call for the local community to gather to help those in need.

The Foundation in partnership with Pride of Asia and Peace Alliance will host a 'Homeless Feast ' in January 2011 and say they would like to enlist volunteers who will help on the programme.

Nearly 2,000 people marched through Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday on an annual St Andrew's Day anti-racism march and rally.

A new study has shown that Muslim people and Mosques endure higher levels of threats and intimidation in UK suburbs and market towns than they do in big cities with a more diverse range of people.

Demonstrating that multiculturalism works the study reveals case studies where Muslim women are reluctant to contact the police after physical violence indicating there is a hidden wave of prejudice against Muslim people that wider society doesn’t acknowledge.

Following the tenth anniversary of the death of Damilola Taylor, last Saturday, his father Richard Taylor has plead for the government to do more to tackle the drug wars that is killing young people.  

In an interview with ITV London Tonight's Ronke Phillips aired last Friday Richard Taylor said unless the situation is brought under control the teenage killings will continue.

It seemed as though the swanky Park Lane Hilton Hotel was taken over by Arif Ali supporters last week. More than a thousand friends and family gathered for a gala dinner to celebrate his company - Hansib Publishing - 40th anniversary .

Indeed for 40 years Ali’s publications have captured the heart-beat of African, Caribbean and Asian life here in the UK.

Chancellor George Osborne is to be investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over whether the Treasury upheld its statutory duty to assess the impact of the spending review on women, disabled and ethnic minority people.

A fifteen year old teenage girl from Birmingham has been arrested for allegedly burning the Qur'an. She was charged with inciting religious hatred after posting a video of burning the Islamic holy book on the social network website Facebook. The video has since been removed.

The NUS Black Students’ Officer, Kanja Ibrahim Sesay, has today called for an urgent and impartial inquiry into the exclusion of Black students from an NUS event for Black students scheduled to take place in London next week.

It would be difficult to find another example of the incredible journey many people in Lewes embarked upon on Tuesday evening. Councillors, poets, writers, pensioners, bonfire society chiefs and many others packed a meeting room at the Pelham Hotel to talk about a subject many didn’t even think existed in their town - Racism.

David James Smith’s Sunday Times article about the racial prejudice his mixed heritage family had endured in the town they loved shook its residents to the core.