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The Green Party has introduced its BAME manifesto that will support and value BAME Londoners

London is a wonderful, vibrant and diverse city, which should provide everyone with an equal opportunity to find work, gain an education and build a home. Ethnicity, race or faith should not predetermine poorer outcomes in life, yet currently in London it all too often does,”

those were just some of the wise words Green candidate for Mayor of London, Sian Berry said.

Dedicating the prize to all his Leicester teammates, Riyad Mahrez became the first African to be named English football player of the year on April 24th.

The 25-year-old Mahrez was presented with this prestigious award at the Grosvenor Hotel in London on Sunday after scoring 17 goals and 11 assists in the Foxes' fairytale campaign. Mahrez was flown by helicopter to the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) ceremony in London on the weekend that the leaders beat Swansea 4-0.

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The working relationship between the Police and Crime Commissioner for the west Midlands David Jamieson and his Deputy Yvonne Mosquito has been a matter of some speculation over the past few months, which has been reportedly strained to the extent where he failed to endorse her as his Deputy/Running mate in the forthcoming elections on 5th May.

This was then followed by the shock suspension on 23rd march 2016 of Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Yvonne Mosquito who is also long standing Labour Birmingham City councillor.

If the UK decides to remain in the European Union it will be in no small measure thanks to a remarkable speech today by President Barack Obama.

The 'Remain in the EU' campaign have desperately struggled to make their case, whilst the ‘Brexiters’ have become more emboldened with their often ‘little Englander’, anti-foreigner rhetoric.

There was great controversy and jubilation in equal measure when it was announced earlier this week that Harriet Tubman would be replacing President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

The U.S Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman, anti-slavery activist and slavery abolitionist is set to become the first black person to feature on U.S. paper currency. Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew said the $20 bill would join new designs of $10 and $5 bills by 2020.

To the disbelief of many the tragic news began to filter through that yesterday morning the African American music legend, Prince, was found dead.

Iconic and legendary are adjectives too easily banded about to describe individuals, but not Prince.

The National Union of Students has elected Malia Bouattia as president after a tense contest in which she unseated incumbent Megan Dunn.

Bouattia, a leftwing former University of Birmingham student who has been the union’s black students’ officer for the past two years.

Speaking to the Guardian after her victory, Bouattia said her victory was empowering. “Running against an incumbent is always tough. I believe it has only happened before once in the NUS’s history,” she said.

As reported in Buzzfeed, despite calls and emails to Zac Goldsmith’s campaign team they refuse to respond to a plea to sign a ‘Code of Conduct’ put together by a coalition of race equality groups, including the Runnymede Trust, the Jewish Council for Race Equality, and Operation Black Vote.

It is bitterly disappointing that our attempts to engage with Goldsmith's team have been met with a wall of silence.