The Afrikan community is rightly outraged on hearing the news, that has just emerged, of ‘Child Q’, a 15-year-old Hackney school girl that was strip-searched on school premises by the police who were aware that she was menstruating at the time. (1) Although the search, termed by some as state…

TENDAI MWARI Reverend Hewlette Andrew, ‘Baba Hewie’, died in his native Dominica on 11 March 2022, having retired there in 2017 after over 40 years of service to communities in the UK and across the Afrikan world. He was born into a Methodist family in Dominica in 1938 to parents…

While much of global Europe urges us all to stand with Ukraine, in spite of its racist (Nazi, even) past and present (1), these same forces continue to foment havoc in Afrika in places like Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, where up to 15 million face displacement and Somalia – where…

In a change to our scheduled programme, we will now be dealing with the ongoing situation in Ukraine.  Global Europe has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, formerly a part of the Soviet Union. (1)  The African Union has echoed this sentiment, calling on Russia to “respect international law, the…

A new report, Ethnic Inequalities in Healthcare: A Rapid Evidence Review, commissioned by the NHS Race and Health Observatory reveals that. “Racism, racial discrimination, barriers to accessing healthcare and woeful ethnicity data collection have “negatively impacted” the health of black, Asian and minority ethnic people in England for years… Ethnic…