Novara Live: Colston Has Fallen
Edward Colston Has Fallen. Now, can the #BlackLivesMatter movement force Britain to face up to its colonial past and the racism that exists to this day?
Tag: racism
Opinion: Pull Them All Down
Dalia Gebrial
On Sunday afternoon a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down, dragged across Bristol and dumped into the city's harbour. Dalia Gebrial argues it's only by pulling down statues of slavers and colonisers that we can create space for re-education on how Britain came to be.
Opinion: Trump’s Police Crackdown is Part of a Global Whitelash
David Wearing
The police riot on protestors in the US is the latest expression of a politics of white racist reaction that’s been growing across the West since the 1960s. However, the events of the last fortnight have exposed tensions the anti-racist left can exploit, argues David Wearing.
Report: Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse
Sophie K Rosa
With racial profiling by the police accelerating under lockdown, police monitoring groups and anti-racism activists fear that in the face of intensifying protests, it may get even worse. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Novara Live: Military Rule
Trump threatens to call in the army. Are pandemic protests safe? And the UK government censor a report on BAME deaths. With Michael Walker, Dalia Gebrial, Sarah Jaffe and Timesh Pillay
Novara Live: America in Flames (w/ Nelini Stamp)
The US is being rocked by its biggest uprising since the 1960s. We are joined by National Organizing Director at the Working Families Party Nelini Stamp, live from New York, to discuss racist policing and anti-racist strategy. Plus, is Britain easing the lockdown too soon?
Opinion: George Floyd is Now a Household Name in Britain. Why Isn’t Jimmy Mubenga?
Aaron Bastani
The killing of George Floyd has prompted outrage worldwide - including from some unexpected parts of the British media. Aaron Bastani asks why many Brits will happily acknowledge racism across the Atlantic but ignore it here at home.
Opinion: The UK is Not Innocent – Police Racism Has a Long and Violent History Here Too
Wail Qasim
The murder of George Floyd is the latest in a long history of police racism and brutality in the US. But to gain a more fundamental understanding of why black people are dying at the hands of the police, we need to look closer to home, argues Wail Qasim.
Report: BAME People Are More Likely to Have Been Fined for Breaking Lockdown Across the Country, FOI Data Shows
Nic Murray
Exclusive: New figures obtained by FOI request suggest police forces outside of London were 4.4 times more likely to issue £60 fines to BAME people than to white people during the first week of lockdown. Nic Murray reports.
The Burner: The Burner Episode #230: Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
How will the lockdown end? James Butler asks: why is the US so intent on blaming China? Do states need ‘official enemies’?
Opinion: Filth: Racist Scaremongering Around Covid-19 Is Nothing New. We Have Always Blamed Racial Others for Disease
Eleanor Penny
Western governments have every reason to opportunistically stoke sinophobia, it helps them to distract us and to dodge blame. But what they are doing is nothing new. A glance over the history of colonialism and race-making reveals a longstanding tradition of scaremongering about racial others as founts and bearers of disease, writes Eleanor Penny, in part two of a series on 'filth'.
Opinion: C4’s Dispatches Programme on the ‘Truth About Traveller Crime’ Was a Pack of Lies
Jake Bowers
Romani journalist and broadcaster Jake Bowers argues Channel 4's latest broadcast about the Gypsy and Traveller community amounts to inciting racial hatred against one of Britain’s most marginalised ethnic communities.
Opinion: The Labour Party’s Culture War Over Racism Has Pitted Marginalised Communities Against One Another
Ash Sarkar
The Labour party's selective objection to racism for factional purposes put Jewish members in the firing line of an internecine battle, pitted communities against one another, and threw black and Muslim members to the wolves, writes Ash Sarkar.
Ash Wednesday: The Woke Brigade Have Gone Too Far!!!1
Free speech is under attack!!1 From something far more dangerous than the government…. Undergraduates.
Ash Wednesday: They All Look the Same, Don’t They?!!
Why do the British media seem to have such a hard time identifying people who share the same skin tone? Ash Sarkar takes a look at the phenomenon known as ‘cross-race effect’.
Report: Over 50 Offensive Coronavirus-Themed Products Pulled From Amazon
Joe Goodman
Over 50 offensive Coronavirus-themed products were listed on the company’s site before they were removed this week. Joe Goodman reports.
Novara FM: Hostile Environment: Maya Goodfellow on Race and Migration
James Butler is joined by Maya Goodfellow to discuss the history and politics of migration in the UK.
Ash Wednesday: Colonial Undertones and the Power of Euphemism
Racially charged… Racially tinged… Racially infused with a racial veloute… Why can’t the media just ever use the word racist?