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Paris Brown: sending up a gimmick?
On 8 April 2013 the Evening standard carried a story about Paris Brown who having been appointed as a youth police commissioner by Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, Ann Barnes, one week earlier at a cost to the taxpayer of £15,000 a year was found have posted homophobic and racist tweets prior to her appointment. The
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Government taking a back seat in racism battle
On February 12, professor Gus John visited Sky News’ studios for an interview where he accused the coalition government of taking a back seat in the fight against racism in football. The following article was published on the Sky Sports website and contains excerpts from his contribution. Race relations advisor Professor Gus John says the
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Three Cheers for Kevin-Prince Boateng
AC Milan’s friendly match against fourth-tier side Pro Patria was abandoned less than half way into the game when midfielder Boateng took off his short and walked off the pitch in protest against racist chants from Pro Patria fans. Although Pro Patria’s Dario Alberto Polverini attempted to talk to Boateng as he left the pitch
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Black football players: victims or or protagonists?
What is it about football as a sport that makes it so difficult for those who control and regulate it to even conceive that black players could exercise their right to self-organisation and self-defence against the racism they suffer? It will soon be 20 years since Herman Ouseley kick started the Kick Racism Out of
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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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