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Justice for Stephen but racist murders continue apace
Share/Bookmark Since the late 1990s and the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report, there has been the popular view that the head of the monster of racism in British society has been exposed and that the nation and its institutions are at last both aware and free of the perniciousness of racism. Curiously, the conviction last week
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Police to Stop and Search Less?
Share/Bookmark The following letter was sent to the London Evening Standard on January 12th, 2012. At long last police in London have acknowledged what young people, communities and academic researchers have been saying for decades and particularly since the escalation of stop and search operations, supposedly in an attempt to tackle gun and knife crime.
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Black, Asian, minority ethnic communities and inner city riots
Share/BookmarkThe following speech was delivered at the “Beyond the Unrest – Community Safety & Civil Society” seminar, promoted by the BME Leadership & Engagement project, on November 29th, 2011. The subject I have been asked to address is vast and it is simply impossible to do justice to it in the time I have been
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Riots: The People, the State and the Media
Share/BookmarkProf. Gus John gave the keynote address at the Media and the Riots Conference’s Big Debate event on Saturday, November 26th, 2011, at the London College of Communication. The full text of his speech: I thank Marc Wadsworth and his team for inviting me to share some thoughts with you at this most important debate. I have to confess to
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Open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron
Share/Bookmark This open letter was sent to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on August 13th, 2011. Dear Prime Minister, I write as someone whose contribution for more than four decades to the struggle for quality schooling and education for all and for racial equality and social justice is a matter of public record. I
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