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March 01, 2021

Gay British Tamil community: a double barrier to celebrating Pride

Gay Pride is synonymous with inclusivity and celebration. However, for people of colour, few safe and intersectional spaces exist. This is especially true within the British Tamil community, of...

Citizen journals are a mighty force for news freedom

Thomas L Blair "Honest and unfiltered". That's the future of online journalism. Ordinary citizens will publish top quality articles, blogs and reports in  "citizen journals". Some bloggers will watch-dog the work of conventional journalists, public re ...

Scandal of Bleached Black Faces

The-Latest  SPECIAL REPORT  -  Deborah Hobson  "If you’re Black stay back, if you’re brown hang around and if you’re white you’re alright”. Thus went an ugly, rhyming catchphrase of African and Caribbean colonial times. Its message und ...

Blind racism

Deborah Hobson  It was non-violent Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi, who said “an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind”. Gee Walker, mother of Anthony Walker, the young black man horrifically slain with an ice axe by white racists, has seemingl ...

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