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Black Cultural Archives: response to the March 2021
Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report
Black Cultural Archives (BCA) refutes the approach and findings of the report on the basis of its poor use of data, unsubstantiated conclusions and British history inaccuracies.
REPORT 2021
Throughout centuries to present day, Black British history has been made, and unfolded in front of our very eyes in different spheres. Yet with no mandatory place on a highly Eurocentric national curriculum, Black British history continues to be viewed as insignificant. We have seen the effects of this omission, which pose a number of serious and dangerous political consequences.
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4in10: London’s Child Poverty Network is a campaigning network of organisations working to improve the lives of the 4in10 children living in poverty across the capital.
We believe child poverty can be tackled. It doesn’t have to exist.
Members of the YMCA Youth Advisory Group
The Young and Black report exposes the true nature of what it is like to be a young Black person growing up in the UK today. As the steering group behind the report, we created safe spaces where the Black community could come together to share their experiences – and that they did.
'Stain on British history'
The Home Office broke equality the law, by imposing its "hostile environment" immigration policies which contributed to the Windrush scandal, ERC report found
Problems caused by policies were "repeatedly ignored, dismissed or their severity disregarded" as they were being developed, according to Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) assessment
The government department has committed to an agreement with EHRC to take action
in the UK have highlighted once again the racism and inequality that exists here. Racial
inequalities in the protection of human rights raised by the Black Lives Matter movement
led this Committee to commission polling which found that over three quarters of Black
people in the UK do not believe their human rights are equally protected compared to
white people.
You will have a qualification and recognition in a related field and have demonstrated the ability to combine your historical research into a cohesive written account.
Please download the full brief for more information and details on how to apply. Deadline for expressions of interest is 17.00, 9 December 2020.
No Justice No Peace
BREONNA TAYLOR
MATTERED
WHEN BREONNA TAYLOR TOOK HIS LAST BREATH SHE HAD NO KNOWEDGE SHE WAS ABOUT TO BE SHOT DEAD IN HER OWN HOME BY ARMED POLICE OFFICERS
SAY HER NAME
"BREONNA TAYLOR"
WORLD IS WITNESS
"We are never safe"
Breonna Taylor’s family condemns Louisville police
Breonna Taylor's name is known around the world but she still can't get justice at home
Family expresses anger and disappointment after jury decided not to charge police officers directly for killing of 26-year-old medical worker in her own home.
Breonna Taylor’s family spoke out for the first time on 24th Sep 2020 since a grand jury in Kentucky announced that it had decided not to charge three police officers directly in the killing of the 26-year-old medical worker in March, shooting her 6 times in her hallway or her apartment.
Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, on Friday attended a press conference at a downtown Louisville park that has become a focus for protests and a makeshift memorial to Taylor, who was shot dead in her apartment after police barged in and fired a hail of bullets during a botched investigation.
Breonna Mother wept and was too upset to speak, Bianca Austin, Palmer’s sister and Breonna's aunt, read a statement written by
Tamika Palmer.
“Know this: I am an angry Black woman,” Palmer’s statement read. “Angry because our Black women keep dying at the hands of police officers … you robbed the world of a queen.”
A grand jury, a citizen body appointed by the authorities in the US to decide in some investigations whether criminal charges should be brought, in Louisville determined that the three officers who fired their weapons in Taylor’s home should not be charged directly for Taylor’s death.
One of the officers, Brett Hankison, was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment for blindly shooting from outside Taylor’s apartment, with bullets penetrating the homes of Taylor’s neighbours.
All three officers opened fire after Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, thought intruders were breaking into the apartment and reached for his gun, firing one shot and injuring one of the officers.
Hankison was fired by the LMPD on June 23, 2020. On September 15, the city of Louisville agreed to pay Taylor's family $12 million and reform police practices. On September 23, a state grand jury indicted Hankison not for Breonna Taylor's death, but on three counts of wanton endangerment for endangering a neighbour with his shots. The two other officers involved in the raid were not indicted.
Taylor's death and the non-indictment of the police officers for it led to protests across the United States.
WHITE SILENCE. BLACK NOISE
We believe in a world where every person belongs
We reject racism that stands in the way.
MAKE THAT STAND WITH US!
ZERO TOLERANCE TO RACISM
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