This week, Sainsbury’s has been hit with the blessing and the curse that is trending on Twitter. After debuting their new advert, Gravy Song, Sainsbury’s were instantly met with a storm of angry tweets and […]
“Don’t burn the flag, wash it” – A statement bigger than just symbolism
Iona Tompkins discusses why the removal of Confederate imagery from the Mississippi flag could be more than just symbolic.
ABC’s racial profiling of Ansu Fati marks trend of media discrimination
Following Barcelona’s 5-1 win against Ferencvárosi on Tuesday, Salvador Sostres, a prominent journalist for Spanish newspaper ABC, compared 17-year old winger Ansu Fati’s pace to that of a “Black street vendor fleeing the police” in […]
Uncle Ben’s Retirement
This article discusses ‘Uncle Ben’s’ new branding, and the racial suppression behind the original branding.
Is the environmentalist movement racist?
Rachel Murray investigates how the environmentalist movement may be blaming the wrong people for environmental degradation…
If Britain can’t handle Diversity’s Britain’s Got Talent performance, how will we ever truly embrace racial diversity?
Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk in the media surrounding the nation’s response to Diversity’s performance on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. On Saturday 5th September, Diversity, a successful street […]
Is Eugenics Still Prevalent in Modern Day Science?
Beth Powell discusses how eugenics can be racist, and whether this still exists in modern day science.
This country is not innocent: The ugly reality of racism in the UK
There is a mistaken superiority in Britain on issues regarding race, one which compartmentalises racism to the US. There is a dangerous reluctance within the Government to admit the actualities of racism in the UK: […]
Discomfort is not an excuse for complacency
The truth is that no one likes to feel embarrassed or uncomfortable. This is a difficult thing to admit when we want to claim that we are doing our best: we don’t want to make […]
The White People Guide To Supporting #BlackLivesMatter
People of colour have been oppressed by white people for over five hundred years. To be surprised by the George Floyd murder is to be ignorant of how the police, amongst others with institutional power, […]
Stop gaslighting the US protestors
Ever heard of the term “tone policing”? I hadn’t until a few days ago, nose buried in Layla Saad’s fantastically eye-opening Me and White Supremacy. Tone policing is the act of taking offence when a […]
Get To Know White Privilege
If you are white you are more likely to live a good quality life to an elderly age. Now please, read that again. Keep reading until that fact is engrained in your mind and impacts […]