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Key moments in police relations with Britain’s BAME communities since 1999 | Police

Published six years after the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the Macpherson report was intended to be a turning point in police relations with Britain’s black and minority ethnic communities. Finding... Read more »
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Tower Hamlets BAME Inequalities Commission launches report

“Radical steps” should be taken to dismantle structural racism and make Tower Hamlets an anti-racist borough within the subsequent 4 years, a report has discovered. Tower Hamlets Council arrange its Black, Asian and... Read more »
BAME people receive more homophobic abuse and discrimination – South London News

BAME people receive more homophobic abuse and discrimination – South London News

By Rafi Mauro-Benady  Black and ethnic minority (BAME) lesbian, homosexual, and bisexual (LGB) folks say they’re more likely to obtain better abuse than their white counterparts. And their claims are backed up... Read more »

Barking and Dagenham charity helping BAME women to be heard

As a toddler refugee from the Somali civil battle, Zahra Ibrahim noticed poverty, dying and destruction of her group and the disempowerment of girls consequently. Galvanised by her experiences, Zahra arrange Excel... Read more »
Jaden Francois-Esprit, 21, who was stationed at Wembley Fire Station in north London, died at his home Wapping, east London, in August 2020

London firefighter who hanged himself was not being ‘bullied’ as the only BAME member, inquest hears

The colleagues of a junior firefighter who took his own life did not think he was being bullied, an inquest has heard. Jaden Francois-Esprit, 21, was found hanged at his home in Wapping,... Read more »