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New World Steel Orchestra: a goodwill message
It gives me great pleasure to publish this message, marking the achievements of the New World Steel Orchestra (NWSO) in Chapeltown Leeds in 2012. Among those achievements were the massive contribution they made to the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Leeds West Indian Carnival and the memorial for the late Dr Geraldine Connor,
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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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School Exclusion Ruins Lives. No Excuses!
On May 16th, professor Gus John will deliver the keynote address at the “School Exclusion Ruins Lives. No Excuses!” conference. The event, organised by the Communities Empowerment Network (CEN), aims to give a response to the recommendations outlined by CSJ ‘No Excuses’ report (dated September 2011) and the Children’s Commissioner School Exclusions Inquiry. The Lilian Baylis Technology School, in London,
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Peter Figueroa obituary
There is a certain poignancy about the timing of Peter Figueroa’s death, aged 75, during the period of rioting across England this summer – the worst civil unrest seen for a generation, sparked in part by the killing of a black man by the police, and involving a significant number of young people, many of
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