One night of counterprotests cannot erase the damage these riots caused inews.co.uk/opinion/one-ni… great article by Kuba Shand-Baptiste How long will anti-racist sentiments last?

‘Protesters’ phrasing has to stop. Stick your head out the window & feel the rain on your face journalists. This isn’t ‘protest’, this is targeted harassment by bullies & racists. Anyway, great to see such a big anti-racist turnout in Crawley. There are many more of us than them.

Colleagues who run ITT courses, how are you preparing to embed antiracism in your courses from September? Surely the events of this summer will convince you that we need to do better? leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/centr…

He left out anyone is wasn't white & all the racism in his racist construction of an 'idealised' white British past. No colonialism, colour bar, Blackshirts, Rivers of Blood, National Front, sus laws, cricket test, Thatcherism, or official responses pre-Blair. Guy's a historian!

Why don’t we report this more widely? Research shows immigration has no negative effect on wages or crime and infact has a positive impact on the NHS. Everything else is a stone cold lie. ft.com/content/5a00c1…

#Liverpool has turned up again! Massive crowd telling the far right they’re not welcome on Merseyside ✊🏾 #StandUpToRacism

What a blisteringly sharp analysis from David Olusoga, who calls out the riots for exactly what they were - violent racism, fomented by populism. Please read his superb piece 🔥 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our series #Defiance repeats on Channel 4 tonight, Tues & Weds. Please let colleagues, friends & family know, particularly the non-South Asian origin ones. We need to build some mutual understanding of our histories if we’re going to work out how to build a better future together

There is no such thing as unconscious bias, it’s just bias.

Ash Sarkar breaks down the real reason British culture is crumbling. Hint: it’s got nothing to do with immigration.

Episode 1 is on in an hour on Channel 4

A wonderful, brave man Abdullah ♥️

Marine and environmental science in the United Kingdom “We found them to be the least diverse degree subjects for ethnic minority students and Asian students were less likely to be accepted than white students on environmental science degrees.” nature.com/articles/s4324…

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Genocide When settler colonists have the master key to biographical time, your cradle & grave can come on the same day. When international law has no force or meaning, where do they/we go for justice?

Started reading this and it’s 🔥

Today is my birthday. Five years ago today, I celebrated my birthday and the book birthday of How to Be an Antiracist. Little did I know that millions of people across the world would read this book that Pulitzer Prize winning Black Studies scholar Jeffrey C. Stewart called “the

Tonight at 10pm

Dear Global Majority colleagues, friends and family, is your body aching from the symbolic & visceral pain of recent events? Has racial battle fatigue inflicted dil de zakam/soul wounds? We need healing follow Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality we’re planning healing spaces

August 15th - Indian Independence Day - is always so bittersweet. Even more so in the circumstances of 2024.