Two in five new recruits to the Metropolitan Police must be from ethnic minority backgrounds under new plans to quell Scotland Yard’s race crisis. In an action plan unveiled today, Met commissioner Cressida Dick admits the force is ‘not free of discrimination, racism or bias’ and has vowed to eliminate it. The developments come at … Read more
Hip-hip, soul, R&B… that’s NOT ‘urban’ music: Record labels are told to stop using ‘dehumanising’ term for black artists in bid to stamp out stereotypes UK Music has published a ten-point plan to ‘lay out a clear roadmap for change’ Commitment to stop using urban classification when referring to soul or rap Diversity taskforce says terms … Read more
Decades of structural discrimination led to the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, a review has said. Baroness Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, claimed there were structural inequalities within government, health, employment and the education system that Covid-19 ‘thrived on’ as the outbreak … Read more
BAME communities urged to volunteer for Covid-19 vaccine trials as figures show they account for less than 5% of participants UK Vaccine Taskforce was launched in April to ‘drive forward, expedite and co-ordinate efforts to research and then produce a coronavirus vaccine’ While over 250,000 Britons have taken part in trials since then, 93% are … Read more
Ethnic minorities are overrepresented as actors and presenters on British television but continue to be sidelined off screen, new research suggests. People from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds accounted for more than 22 per cent of all on-screen TV contributions last year, while representing just 12.8 per cent of the UK population. But … Read more
Supreme Court president Lord Reed calls for more judges from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds as he says lack of diversity will become ‘shameful’ if it continues Lord Reed has taken over as president of the Supreme Court from Lady Hale He said the lack of diversity ‘cannot be allowed to become shameful if … Read more
Tory MP sparks racism row after claiming the ‘vast majority’ of lockdown rule-breakers are from BAME communities Craig Whittaker, of Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, has sparked a racism row He said ‘sections of our community are just not taking the pandemic seriously’ The MP made the comments after local lockdowns were imposed in the North By … Read more
Police chiefs blame officers’ ‘conscious or unconscious’ bias as figures show young BAME men were almost TWICE as likely to be handed fines for breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules NPCC found there had been ‘disproportionality’ in issuing fixed penalty notices The BAME community were handed fines at rate of 1.6x higher than white people Black … Read more
Lockdown measures imposed in late March to slow down the spread of coronavirus may not have been as effective in black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities because of the ‘one-size-fits-all approach’, scientists have said. Academics at the University of Leicester found that Covid-19 cases continued to rise in BAME groups in certain parts of … Read more
Black and Asian Britons are up to four times more likely to have had already fought off the coronavirus, official data today suggested. A government-run Covid-19 surveillance scheme, which has tested 36,000 people across England, revealed 4.5 per cent of white people had developed antibodies — substances created by the immune system in response to … Read more