All news on the topic: Racism

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'My mother-in-law committed cardinal hair sin, it's racist but she doesn't care'
A woman has shared how she was left feeling 'hurt' and her partner was left fuming after her mother-in-law made a 'race-based assumption' about her hair and wouldn't apologise
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Black nurse told to 'bleach skin white' so patients would be nicer wins £25,000
Adelaide Kweyama was told to bleach her skin by a senior nurse. Now she has been awarded £25,000 from the NHS after a tribunal hearing agreed she had been the victim of race-related harassment
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Black NHS midwife sues hospital after staff told to 'check bags' on her last day
Olukemi Akinmeji successfully took her former NHS employers to court over racism she experienced at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, where a colleague joked staff should 'check their bags' as she left
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Athlete claims cops stopped 'grabbing' him when they noticed camera
Portuguese sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos, who was stopped by armed Met Police officers, said an officer only ceased “grabbing him” once he was told by his colleague that the car was filming the encounter
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Yorkshire facing administration amid £3m losses relating to Rafiq racism scandal
The Yorkshire racism scandal has reportedly cost the club millions of pounds, with former spinner Azeem Rafiq found to have been the victim of "racial harassment and bullying" during his time at Headingley
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Student left 'crying' and 'humiliated' after claims lecturer used racist slur
University students say they are protesting against a lecturer who left one “crying” and “humiliated” after allegedly using the N-word during seminar and lectures
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'Race played a part in my dad's death - we urge Covid inquiry to examine this'
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice (CBFFJ), The Runnymede Trust and 25 other civil society organisations have written to Baroness Hallett, chair of the Covid Inquiry, calling for structural racism to be explicitly examined in the Covid inquiry
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Popular cartoon axed by outlet after creator's 'racist' rant about black people
Newspapers have decided to axe the cartoon "Dilbert" after its comic-strip creator Scott Adams told white people to “get the f**k away” from black people on his YouTube show
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TV commentator Dr Shola gets death threat delivered through her letterbox
Good Morning Britain and Jeremy Vine guest Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu has tweeted the twisted, racist death threat letter she found delivered to her front door on Monday by a Neo-Nazi terror group.
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'The photo that shows the BAFTAs blew it, with Black winners still not welcome'
Darren Lewis is appalled that for all BAFTA's talk of diversity and overhauls, Black and Asian stars only made it to the shortlists, and will be feeling used
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Families of men who died after being restrained by cops want answers from Sunak
In a report called I Can’t Breathe: Race, Death and British Policing, campaign group Inquest revealed that black people were seven times more likely to die following police restraint
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Black people seven times more likely to die being restrained by police in UK
The charity Inquest, which helps families who have lost a loved one after contact with police, published the shocking figure after new analysis of official data
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'Home Secretary must lead way against far-right racists targeting minorities'
Saira Khan says Suella Braverman needs to condemn far-right demonstrators and make it clear the dissemination of racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic messages has no place in our society
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Youth campaigner chased by racist thugs says black children are still not safe
A youth campaigner who was chased by racist thugs as a teen says ‘nothing has changed’ following the assault on a black schoolgirl in Surrey where four people were arrested including two children aged 11 and 16
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'Top Tory's racist ties are a sure-fire way to rebuild Labour's Red Wall'
The controversy surrounding Rishi Sunak's new Deputy Tory Chairman Lee Anderson MP just keeps on growing, with new revelations about his links to neo-Nazi white supremacists
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New deputy Tory chairman faces fresh questions 'over link to white supremacists'
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, who is Rishi Sunak's new deputy Tory chairman, appears in photographs with Skegby Scooter Club regular who supports white supremacist punk bands that reference Adolf Hitler
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More than 7,000 pupils suspended over racist attacks, including N-word taunts
Department for Education figures show horrifying scale of racist incidents in UK schools, with anti-racism boss warning that schools are 'poorly equipped' to tackle the problem, made worse by Covid
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Five arrested over racist attack on black schoolgirl, 15, are banned from Surrey
Suspects arrested in connection with a racially-motivated attack on a black student, 15, outside Thomas Knyvett College in Ashford, Surrey, have been banned from the county
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Met Police's first Black recruit on vile racism in force - still after 50 years
Norwell Roberts was a 17-year-old in 1965 when he first applied to the Met Police to become an officer, and faced years of vile abuse from colleagues as the force's first Black recruit
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Ex-Yorkshire star pens critical statement as he pulls out of ECB racism hearing
Richard Pyrah, who spent 12 years playing for Yorkshire before joining their coaching staff, has claimed Azeem Rafiq's allegations of racism have been both "badly handled" and "not appropriately challenged"
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Woman can't recognise brother's face after he's stabbed in horror racist attack
Police are on the hunt to find racist thugs who attacked a vape shop manager stabbing, punching and kicking him during a vicious unprovoked assault
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Al Sharpton warns failure to address UK police brutality will see more deaths
Civil rights veteran Reverend Al Sharpton is currently visiting the UK and has warned that police brutality incidents such as the recent killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis officers could happen in the UK without reforms
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Ex-Yorkshire star latest to snub racism hearing as club admit four charges
Former England captain Michael Vaughan is the only individual still involved with the disciplinary process into allegations of racism made by Azeem Rafiq
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Yorkshire racism enquiry could see stand-off between Rafiq and Vaughan
Four of the seven individuals charged by the ECB in relation to allegations of racism at Yorkshire by Azeem Rafiq have withdrawn from the disciplinary process and a fifth is reportedly considering doing the same
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Reporter and her aristocrat family to apologise for their slave trade shame
The aristocratic Trevelyan family, which owned six sugar plantations and thousands of slaves on the Caribbean island of Grenada, are going to publicly apologise to the country and use £100,000 to establish a community fund on the poverty-stricken island