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An eulogy to Willis Wilkie
Every day in every community, ordinary working people do extraordinary acts of great selflessness and courage in the service of their community. We tend to hear and write about luminaries and celebrities and not about them. I was privileged to be asked to join Fr Nigel Orchard at Christ the Redeemer C of E church
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Making History by Reclaiming ‘Black History’
This short paper is my contribution to the ongoing debate about the future of Black History Month in the UK. It is in response to the ‘Position Paper’ written by Nubian Jack for discussion at the meeting on African Heritage Month International at the Africa Centre, Covent Garden, London, on 22 February 2013. Nubian Jak
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The state we’re in 10 years after the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
In February 1999 Sir William Macpherson reported to the then Home Secretary, Jack Straw, on the inquiry he led into matters arising from the murder of Stephen Lawrence almost six years earlier. The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry report, as Macpherson preferred us to call it, was widely seen as a watershed in race relations in Britain.
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