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Who would have thought that a proud nation of immigrants coming from the four corners of the globe, including those fleeing religious persecution and decedents of enslaved Africans would be so profoundly shamed by a man who could be the nation's next President.

In celebrating and reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Race Relations Act and continued activism, what I am deeply struck by is not only the wonderful black, Asian  and white heroes and heroines -  completely unsung - who fought, struggled and persisted to change, but also that those efforts in the collective clearly demonstrate that here in the UK we very much have had our own Civil Rights Movement.

In fact I’m surprised someone has not written a book -‘The Black British Civil Rights Movement - 50 Years of Struggle’.

Next year the world leaders will meet in April in New York City at UNGASS 2016 -The UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs -to assess and debate the international war on drugs. Governments worldwide are calling for a drastic rethinking of the ineffective approach taken globally to tackle the drug conflict. The last time a special session on drugs was held was in 1998, during which the focus was total elimination of drugs from the world.

It’s remarkable that some Labour MP’s, along with Conservatives are now contemplating the bombing of Syria given the disaster of Iraq and Afghanistan. The hornet’s nest of terror that is now the Middle East And parts of Africa should provide all the lessons needed to ensure that any consideration of military action is both morally justified, able to secure tangible political outcomes, will do less harm and will be weighed against the inevitable law of unintended consequences.

When Lord Rennard was accused of making unwanted sexual advances to a number of women in the Liberal Democrats, he demanded and was afforded a sense of natural justice.

But for the Lib Dem chair of the Ethnic Minority Lib Dem group Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera he has been subjected to what can only be described as the limits of injustice by any reasonable assessment.

He was accused of bullying and breaking party rules by going to the local press and thrown out of the party.

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One of the most striking aspects of the Scottish referendum debate was just how much the nation's Black and minority ethnic communities proudly declared their Scottishness, and their willingness to vote for independence.

If the referendum in Scottish independence were to be decided on BME votes alone Scotland would be an independent nation state, having witnessed two thirds of BME voters supporting the independence.

Michael Eboda had vision over a decade ago that the United Kingdom should know better those black heroes and heroines who make a difference to our world and at the same time inspire young black men and women to follow in their paths. Thus the Black Powerlist was born.

Not only has this annual event got bigger and better each year, but Eboda its CEO has also ensured that an offspring from the Powerlist has been the building and setting up of a Black business school.

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

- Novak Djokovic