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Imagine for a second being one of four smart black students-the fact that they were smart shouldn’t be important-walking into an Apple store and being confronted by white staff and security, who tell you straight to your face that you’re very presence make their staff feel uncomfortable, when one the students enquires why, he’s told, “because we feel you might steal something”.

The West’s public enemy number one, Mohammed Emwazi aka. 'Jihadi John' has reportedly been killed in an overnight airstrike in Syria by US forces.

Emwazi became chillingly nortorious for his public beheading of British and American citizens. The world was shocked by his brutality, the UK, and in particularly British Muslims were deeply saddened and angry that he called himself a British Muslim.

There's lot of African and Caribbean history around the UK, much of it untold. For example in Chapletown, Leeds the West Indian Centre has for more than 40 years catered for and fought on behalf of the Black community there. 40 years on and they are still supporting and empowering their community. Last month, during Black history month the centre show cased their latest project. ' Race Card: The power of social media.

Brain child behind the scheme Claude Hendrickson told the audience:

As an intern at OBV, I was fortunate enough to aid in OBV’s recent training day for its Lewisham Civic Leadership Programme on Thursday 5th November.

The Lewisham Civic Leadership Programme is another partnership program, along with the MP Shadowing Scheme, the Magistrates Shadowing Scheme, Welsh Assembly and the Councillor Shadowing Schemes, run by Operation Black Vote.

There’s an old Blues song by Big Bill Bronzy: ‘Black, Brown and White; written back in the ‘Jim Crow’ days when the colour of one's skin could get you lynched. In it Bronzy sings: If you’re white, you’re all right, if you're brown, stick around, but if you’re Black, oh brother, get back, get back. It seems in spite of all the race equality we’ve gained since ‘Jim Crow’ racial prejudice in regards the shade of colour you are still matters one way or another.

It is not well documented in British schools that more than a million rallied to the ‘Mother country’s' call in the nation's hour of need, during the ‘bloody’ First World War. This contribution on the front included 60,000 Black South Africans, 120,000 other Africans, 15,204 black soldiers from the Caribbean, and 140, 000 Chinese labourers who worked on munitions and other war tasks.

The biggest work-race survey of its kind - 25,000, in which many supporters of OBV participated in, has found, amongst many things, two startling facts that ought to be contradictory but they are not. Instead, these perhaps show the resilience of the Black and minority ethnic experience in society.

Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson in Poland

OBV’s international Patron Rev Jesse Jackson, made a flying visit to London last week on route to give a lecture at the Oxford university. And during the conversation he had with us and parliamentarians such as Diane Abbott and Keith Vaz he talked movingly about his recent visit to Poland and the death camps there.

The Women’s Equality Party (WEP) launched in March of this year, their mission statement includes achieving equal representation in politics, business, industry and throughout working life. The co-founders of the political party are Catherine Mayer and Sandy Toksvig. Below Sophie Walker, the newly appointed Director explains why Black women and men are critical to their success.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.