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Hip-Hop at 50: What next for the music of resistance?
https://www.the-latest.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_b/public/field/image/Hip-Hop-history-grammys-020523.jpg?itok=zqoRhKFqAs the sun sets on another US Black History Month, an anniversary of global significance was quietly commemorated that deserves so much more international recognition. In 2023, hip-hop, arguably...
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"Britain's unjust law disproportionately affecting Black offenders"
https://www.the-latest.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_b/public/field/image/0_Prisoner-behind-prison-bars.jpg?itok=-lF9q0BxHundreds of Black prisoners remain unjustly jailed indefinitely as a result of a law which was scrapped over a decade ago. One man who had an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) order...
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Charities condemn sharp rise in UK homelessness
https://www.the-latest.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_b/public/field/image/4k-wallpaper-afterglow-blur-1236701-e1551874657472-1920x1280.jpg?itok=GNWranaBFigures for people sleeping rough in England has risen for the first time since 2017, in what campaigners have branded a “massive, collective failure” by authorities. Some 3,069 people are...
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Government threat to your British citizenship
https://www.the-latest.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_b/public/field/image/UPDATE-ON-BREXIT-AND-WHAT-IT-MEANS-FOR-NON-EEA-FAMILY-MEMBERS-OF-BRITISH-CITIZENS-EXERCISING-THEIR-EU-TREATY-RIGHTS-IN-IRELAND.jpg?itok=HR52MHMWConfusion has arisen around the British government’s own understanding of its citizenship laws, following a judgment by the UK’s high court. In a ruling handed down on January 20 2023, in the...
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Why Black people must defend refugees in Britain
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Marc Wadsworth
Perhaps one of South African Nobel Peace prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s most famous quotes, is: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side ...
"Support the strikes, drive out the Tories"
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UK government and public service workers currently on strike as members of the PCS trade union, joined thousands of protestors who braved rain and cold weather to march in central London against ...
Centenary of Shapurji Saklatvala getting elected to parliament
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One hundred years this month, an Indian freedom fighter and communist was elected to the British parliament as the Battersea Trades Council and Labour Party MP. Shapurji Saklatvala was a member ...Politics
Nottingham The Liberation Movement launch a big success Two MPs and most of Nottingham’s African, Asian and Caribbean councillors attended the launch of a new chapte ...
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What the war in Ukraine taught us, Palestinians From the early hours of February 24, when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, the world at large watched the&nbs ...
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Elevator moment with fallen sports icon hunted by media It was reminiscent of when a press photographer confronted me with his long-lens camera for my 15 minutes of ...
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Nigeria's reaction to Elon Musk Twitter take-over As Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter sends users and media outlets into a frenzy, there have been mixed reacti ...
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Three decades after Stephen Lawrence murder: racism still rampant It was an iconic moment almost 30 years ago when arguably the world’s most famous person at the time Nelson Mandel ...
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MP Clive Lewis backs new anti-racism campaign Leading British Black politician Clive Lewis MP is among a host of prominent figures who are backing the setting u ...
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Sicko UK: shocking selling-off of the health service Britain’s flagship National Health Service got a top award on its 73rd birthday this summer but it is in crisis be ...
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Nicki Minaj: whacky pop star's footwear goes viral Once again Nicki Minaj is breaking the internet. But this time it’s because of Crocs not anacondas.
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