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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24

In just a short few weeks as Bristol’s political leader, Mayor Marvin Rees, had made a statement of intent by appointing the city’s first Cabinet member from African and Caribbean decent. Councillor Asher Craig, well known for her community activism will now take the lead on Neighbourhoods with a strategic role in closing inequality gaps.

Speaking on her appointment Mayor Rees said:

Six race  hate thugs beat a man to death after hearing him speak a foreign language. The young men from Harlow, Essex all thought to be in their teens set upon Arkadiusz Jozwik like a pack of wolves, kicking and punching him and his friend outside a pizza parlor on Saturday night.

Arkadiusz brother, Radek revealed these attacks on polish people in Harlow are not new:

It’s happening a lot now. Nobody calls the police, they just walk home and forget about it.”

In an “unprecedented audit”, the Prime Minister Theresa May has demanded every Whitehall department look at what it’s doing to tackle racial disparities in the UK.

The audit's findings will be made public, and year on year new findings will be added. Speaking on the day of launch May said:

"Today, I am launching an audit to look into racial disparities in our public services that stretches right across government,

A Birmingham youth is fulfilling his ambitions in spite of many difficult challenges at home.

Despite caring for his mother who suffers from severe epilepsy whilst his little sister has Downs Syndrome, Atif Khan managed to achieve high enough grades to enable him to study biomedical science at Wolverhampton University. On top of caring duties Atif was also working part-time at the local cash and carry.

The 18-year-old, a student at Moseley School stated that:

TEACHERS RUNNING a careers day at Dr Nira Chamberlain’s school looked at him in disbelief when he told them he would one day like to be a professional mathematician when he grew up.

“No, no,” they said. “With your physique you should be a boxer. You’d make a very good one. Look at your jawbone.” How misguided they were in yet another example of racial stereotyping.

What happened in Nice on the night of July 14th earlier this year whilst the French were celebrating Bastille Day in Nice was a truly despicable act of hate and horror. 84 people died at the hands of an extremist who drove his lorry into crowds.

The French and in particular those living in Nice are no doubt still hurting and equally nervous about future attacks, but do they really believe that banning Burkini’s on French beaches is in any way an effective tool to fight terrorism or to bring different religious communities together?

The outrage leveled at Caster Semenya is at best mean spirited, and certainly against the Olympic spirit. At every juncture this young women has had to prove she is a biological woman. Still, even after such gruelling and at times demeaning tests the doubters still pursue, claiming that in effect she's cheating and she should not be allowed to compete.

Is this weeks report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, citing that widespread inequality is “entrenched” in Britain and risks increasing race tensions is even news?

As an ethnic minority in Britain, I feel different every day. Post-Brexit, there is growing discomfort too. I walk down the street and I wonder if I’ll see somebody being abused, or if this time it’ll be me.

The gold medallist swimmer Ryan Lochte is not the first white person to cover his wrongdoings by blaming a fictional stereotype – usually Black - thereby further exacerbating that stereotype.