The term BAME is ‘unhelpful and redundant’ and should be scrapped, Boris Johnson‘s racial disparity commission will suggest in a report. The acronym – which stands for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic – overshadows the fact that people from different ethnic groups have varying life experiences and should not be grouped together in one category, the … Read more
Cardi B has discussed the ‘insulting’ pay disparity in the record and fashion industry in a new candid interview with Mariah Carey. The WAP hitmaker, 28, said that she has felt ‘prejudice’ during her career and that she has formerly been paid less for endorsement deals compared to ‘certain white people’. Cardi admitted that it is ‘insulting’ and … Read more
‘I actually agree with this’: Trump turns on America’s tech billionaires and says there is ‘too much income disparity’ as he shares clip of Jeff Bezos’s $117bn fortune President Trump called for ‘changes to be made soon’ after saying there is ‘too much income disparity’ in America He made the comments as he shared a … Read more
Downing Street has defended the appointment of Tony Sewell to lead the new racial disparity commission, despite his belief that the absence of black fathers is root the cause of knife and gang crime. Mr Sewell has also previously claimed that evidence of the existence of institutional racism was ‘flimsy’. He was confirmed by the … Read more
Black and Asian Britons are two-and-a-half times more likely to die from coronavirus than white people, an analysis of NHS records has suggested. An Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report compared the number of hospital deaths in the NHS during the COVID-19 crisis against ethnicity. It did not reveal if people of BAME backgrounds were … Read more