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- Archive 2019
- 2015 Elections: 11 new BME MP’s make history
- 70th Anniversary of the Partition of India
- Black Church Manifesto Questionnaire
- Brett Bailey: Exhibit B
- Briefing Paper: Ethnic Minorities in Politics and Public Life
- Civil Rights Leader Ratna Lachman dies
- ELLE Magazine: Young, Gifted, and Black
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- Gary Younge Book Sale
- George Osborne's budget increases racial disadvantage
- Goldsmiths Students' Union External Trustee
- International Commissioners condemn the appalling murder of Tyre Nichols
- Iqbal Wahhab OBE empowers Togo prisoners
- Job Vacancy: Head of Campaigns and Communications
- Media and Public Relations Officer for Jean Lambert MEP (full-time)
- Number 10 statement - race disparity unit
- Pathway to Success 2022
- Please donate £10 or more
- Rashan Charles had no Illegal Drugs
- Serena Williams: Black women should demand equal pay
- Thank you for your donation
- The Colour of Power 2021
- The Power of Poetry
- The UK election voter registration countdown begins now
- Volunteering roles at Community Alliance Lewisham (CAL)
Lola Young
Baroness Young was raised to the peerage as Baroness Young of Hornsey, of Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey in 2004.
Baroness Margaret Omolola (Lola) Young was educated at Parliament Hill School for Girls in London; New College of Speech and Drama and later Middlesex University where she attained a BA in Contemporary Cultural Studies and a PhD in British Film.
Baroness Young is a visiting professor at Birbeck College and is an arts and heritage consultant having founded the Cultural Brokers Arts and Heritage Consultancy.
Her accomplishments include being honoured with an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2001.
She is chair of the arts advisory committee for the British Council and Nitro theatre company and a board member for the South Bank Centre. Currently she serves on the EU Subcommittee C for External Affairs.
She married Barrie Birch in 1984 and they have one son.
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
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