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The EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission) could demand that a substantial fine is levied against the racist BNP (British National Party) and their assets seized if far- right group lose the legal action against them to scrap their ‘whites only’ membership policy.

The BNP was hauled to court by the EHCR who instructed leader Nick Griffin that BNP party policy must comply with race relations rules.

Global power has resided in the West for about 500 years. It was the all powerful Ottoman Empire that was finally pushed out of Spain during the 16th Century that marked the beginning the Western global domination.

But is the global tide turning once more? Today, two of the most powerful leaders in world President Barak Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron are both heading East to woo the emerging power houses of China and India.

The writer David James Smith caused outrage in his beloved town of Lewes when in an article for the Sunday Times he dared to suggest, that racism was a fact of life for his family.

Have universities taken their eye off their responsibilities to promote race equality? asks Rob Berkeley, Director of think tank Runnymede Trust

Shirley Verrett, Soprano opera singer and recitalist, well known during the 1960s and 1970s sadly died last Friday, aged 79..

A great recording artist appearing of stage and film she was lauded by international audiences and the media.

Shirley Verrett was born in the racially segregated deep-south, New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 31 1931, one of six children. She started her musical career at the age of five when she sang her first solo – Jesus Loves Me – in church.

Children's Minister Tim Loughton has sent adoption care workers into a spin with his statement broadly suggesting that there should be no barrier to white parents adopting black children.

The minister's statement has raised alarms bells within the BME (Black and minority ethnic) care sector that the government may be seeking to ‘test the water’ as a forerunner to implementing changes to current guidelines and practices within the adoption and foster care sector.

Phil Woolas, former Labour MP, has been found guilty of making false statements that ‘stirred up racial and religious divisions’ in his bid to win the Oldham East and Saddleworth seat in the May general election.

Lester Holloway (pictured above) responds to Children’s Minister Tim Loughton suggestion that white parents should be allowed to adopt black children

Finding a loving home for thousands of children languishing in care is something that we would all wholeheartedly agree with. No-one would want to put up any needless barriers preventing this from happening.

Happy Diwali

dīpāvalī kī hārdika śubhakāmanā'ēṁ दीपावलीकीहार्दिकशुभकामनाएं

Today as million of people all round the world celebrate Diwali, Londoner Deepty Harji explains what the festival means to her.

Dotun's Law: Dotun Adebayo wrtites for the Guardian today: