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Surayah Bi, a Muslim teaching assistant, has won an unfair dismissal case after being sacked from the Heartlands Academy in Birmingham in 2015 for arguing that a teacher should not be showing graphic footage from the 9/11 attacks in the classroom.

A recent study conducted by the Runnymede Trust, a race equality thinktank, and the University of Greenwich has found that black and Muslim individuals are more likely to receive harsher treatment in prisons, and that this treatment leads to poorer rates of rehabilitation and deteriorated mental health. Focusing on male black and minority ethnic offenders, this study involved 340 subjects in total over four different facilities.

England's triumphant under 17 World Cup winners, who performed a stunning come-back act to beat Spain at the weekend, had more black players in the starting line-up than France's legendary class of 1998.

Eight of the first eleven young lions are black. Seven starters in England's recent under 20's World Cup winning triumph were of the same background.

A new campaign launched by IKEA called “Hooray! To the Wonderful Everyday” depicting a Black family living the good life has been receiving acclaim from Black British people who are now starting to see themselves more and more depicted in advertisements.

Yesterday late afternoon I nervously settled down with my son to watch what I hoped would be Lewis Hamilton show-boating his way to the record books by winning his fourth world FI championship in Mexico.

I told my son ‘Hamilton has no need to fight the young gun Max Verstappon or his nearest rival Sebastian Vettel’, who were both on the front grid with Hamilton behind on third. ‘As long as he finishes in fifth place, he’ll be the champion. End of!’

A Black Cambridge student has found herself under a barrage of social media attacks after publically criticizing the lack of black and ethnic minority authors in the university’s English curriculum. Calling it a “very targeted form of harassment”, Lola Olufemi – the women’s officer of Cambridge’s student union – states that she was inundated with racist and sexist insults following her picture and name being published along with her criticisms on the front page of the Telegraph.

Labour risk squeezing out Black and minority ethnic talent by imposing all-women shortlists in constituencies where there are sizable BME populations and or where BME male candidates have worked hard to bring down the electoral majority. Labour party activists will be well aware that the party has a poor record of using all- women shortlist in raising the number of BME women.

Last week the Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee imposed all-women selections in four target seats where the party had fielded BME men for the 2017 snap general election.

This week we celebrate an important and unprecedented legal victory secured in the UK Supreme Court. The case of P Vs Metropolitan Police Service, a black, disabled, female police officer alleged she suffered discrimination during the course of internal misconduct hearings, in breach of the 2010 Equalities Act.

This morning, 11 suspects were arrested in simultaneous raids in London, Birmingham, and Stateshead in relation to tips of a modern slavery ring smuggling people from Pakistan and Afghanistan into the UK.

British Black History: We didn’t all arrive on the #Windrush My Kru (tribal name) African grandfather from Sierra Leone/Liberia arrived in Liverpool in 1911.