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Does teaching racial justice and equity have a place in our schools?

Penny Rabiger Just when we thought that schools couldn’t possibly absorb any more of society’s most complex needs being driven through their already heaving agendas,

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There is a war on Black people in Britain. If you’re complacent, you’re complicit

Media Diversified Last year Media Diversified published a Windrush series curated by Kiri Kankhwende, it was incisive, timely,  (and will also be a book later this year to

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Afropean: Notes from Black Europe

Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity … A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and

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Black Activist Burnout: ‘You Can’t Do This Work If You’re Running On Empty’

NPR When Imani Brown, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, hit the streets to protest the recent police violence against Black Americans, she felt inspired and

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The Traveller Movement

The Traveller Movement is a leading national charity committed to the fulfilment of human rights for ethnic minority Gypsy Roma and Traveller people. The site hosts

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Teaching British Histories of Race, Migration and Empire

Institute of Historical Research A crowdsourced collection of resources for teachers, students and researchers exploring histories of race, migration and empire. Click to explore the

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Decolonising Pedagogy: How race relations affect trust, effort and achievement

Terra Glowach True story: The lesson is on MLK. An older, well-respected History teacher is conducting a lesson for a room full of Secondary pupils.

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Exposure to racism is trauma

Iesha Small Continued exposure to racism and its effects creates trauma. More white people who think they are allies need to understand this.   A

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Black experiences hub

TES We’ve partnered with BBC, Into Film and The Black Curriculum to bring you a selection of resources on black experiences – from black British history

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Anti-racist Science Teaching

An important contribution to the topical debate on multi-cultural education. The papers extend from general issues about science, nature and race to practical teaching guides

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The Inner Work That Makes Cross-Racial Conversations Easier

Mary Frances-Winters This blog post has been adapted from Chapter Three of our book, Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences, by Mary-Frances Winters. It

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School segregation in multi-ethnic England

Simon Burgess et al. Aspects of both educational development and multi-cultural inter-relationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools

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A biography of the word ‘Paki’: Racist incident in the workplace

Dr Karamat Iqbal The Author dwells on a racist incident, the memory of which he cannot shake loose but which he needs to master lest

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Improving inclusion for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils

Elizabeth Holmes, Optimus Education Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils are statistically the most vulnerable of any identified group of pupils in the UK. Why is

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Heart Of The Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been

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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the

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Creating diverse and inclusive curriculums

Bennie’s closing keynote speech powerfully draws on her own experiences as a teacher and pupil. She challenges us all to create curriculums which diverse and

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Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored

Jeffrey Boakye What’s wrong with calling someone a ‘lighty’? Why do people think black guys are cool?These are just some of the questions being wrestled

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Diverse book list collection

A Google Drive folder of diverse book lists. Click to explore the resource

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Diversity in the boardroom

Diversity in the boardroom. A booklet from Deloitte exploring practical steps that a company can take. Click to read the booklet

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Diversity – ensuring the most talented profession we can for the sake of the children whom we teach

J Gray I was delighted to be asked to contribute a post for the launch of BAMEed.  If we wish for the best teaching profession

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Black and British: A Forgotten History

Historian David Olusoga explores the enduring relationship between Britain and people whose origins lie in Africa. Explore the episodes

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On The Road

On The Road is a podcast for Gyspy, Roma and Traveller communities which will also be broadcast in prisons across the UK on National Prison

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The black British history you may not know about

Kameron Virk “We have existed in Britain and been pioneers, inventors, icons. And then colonialism happened, and that has shaped the experiences of black people

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To Root Out Racism in Schools, Start With Who You Hire

Denisa Superville Principal Marcia Carmichael-Murphy and her leadership team put teacher-candidates in the hot seat when they interview them for a position at Coleridge-Taylor Montessori

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‘Wow, I’m racist’: In time of viral encounters, ‘white spaces’ are used to confront biases

Erik Ortiz Nicole O’Connor, a nurse practitioner in St. Louis, was selling her dining room table on Facebook when a prospective buyer — a black

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Race, ethnicity and education

Race, Ethnicity and Education is the leading peer-reviewed journal on racism and race inequality in education. Click to read more

BAMEed Resources

BAMEed Poster

Download and print a poster for your school staff room or offices to spread the word about our network. Click here to download

Article

How to find the right trustee role

Eleanor Urben Taking on a charity trusteeship is a rewarding and beneficial way to volunteer your time. You will have the chance to support and

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Race in Education with Kauser Jan and Daniel Kebede

In this episode of Talking Race, Professor Vini Lander speaks with Kauser Jan, a primary teacher in Leeds, and Daniel Kebede, Vice President of the

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The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis

Pnina Werbner This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South

Article

We all need to learn to lift

Unknown author I rarely write about my personal life. I guess I worry that my words will be misunderstood or misinterpreted and so cause unintentional

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Community & Mobilisation Podcast Episode

In this podcast we will be exploring the importance of community mobilisation in relation to making positive and impactful change to the way Black and

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BAME We Teach Collection

A collaborative Google Drive collection of resources from BAME We Teach. Click to explore the resource

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The death of George Floyd – will anything change?

Protests ignited across the world after footage showed George Floyd dying under the knee of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Paul Butler discusses the

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The Black Curriculum Learning Resources

The Black Curriculum A range of learning resources and downloads from the team at THe Black Curriculum. Click to explore the resource

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Michaela Coel, James MacTaggart Lecture, Edinburgh TV Festival 2018

“I am overjoyed to accept this invitation; it seems in some way a celebration of the rapidly changing world we live in. But with the

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How I recruited a diverse board and why it was important to me

Ninna Makrinov @NinnaMakrinov, Chair of Governors at Water Mill Primary School On 30 September I Tweeted “I have been re-elected chair of governors at Water

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Me and White Supremacy

Claire Nicholls In the @WomenEdBookclub chat led by Angie Browne (@nourishedteacher) on Layla F. Saad’s ‘Me and White Supremacy’ workbook, we discussed key learning, silence

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Archiving Britain’s Black Communities

We Transfer There’s no limit to our culture. Before the internet, family photo albums brought out on special occasions would hold the memories of Britain’s

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One Bristol Curriculum : Students’ Voice

In this short video, pupils reflect on what they want and need from their school curriculum.

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Racial Awareness Training Video

Ben Nnene: I was invited to speak by my high school, Norwich School on the issues surrounding racism for a Repton house assembly after my

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‘White sanction’, institutional, group and individual interaction in the promotion and progression of black and minority ethnic academics and teachers in England

Professor Paul Miller The promotion and progression of black and minority ethnic academics and teachers in England has been the subject of much debate. Although

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HE workforce data

View the latest workforce data for the Higher Education Sector. View the data

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We Need To Get Comfortable Talking About Race At Work

In this episode we talk to Khuram Ahmed, Business Manager at Race Reflections. A former lawyer who is now part of an organisation which provides

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The Stoop Podcast

The Stoop podcast goes into stories about black life that aren’t talked about enough. Hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba combine journalism and storytelling to

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Becoming an Ally: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression

Anne Bishop This book, published in Europe and USA for the first time, looks specifically at addressing oppression in people. By narrowing the focus, Anne

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Resources for Diversifying Reading lists

Sarah Field – University of Kent An interactive Padlet wall full of resources. Click to explore the resource

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The Anti-Racist Educator White Privilege Test

The Anti-Racist Educator We are often encouraged to believe that we live in a meritocracy, where everyone is equal and treated the same. If you

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Why Representation Really Matters, Aisha Thomas

“Until society represents everyone, the question will always be ‘where do I belong?’ ” Aisha Thomas’s TEDx talk challenges us to imagine a world where

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The fool proof cultural diversity recruitment bias buster

Diversity Officer Magazine Cultural diversity recruitment is far from easy. Interviewer bias is a common troublemaker for the best recruitment efforts. Social science research supports

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Darren Chetty at ‘The Thriving Child’

Darren Chetty explores issues around identity and representation as they relate to how children thrive at ‘The Thriving Child’.

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BAME Strategy Launch

In this video, Haringey Education Partnership speak to students about achievement and what they want to share with headteachers across the borough.

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‘Our stars are aligning’

Sharifah Jelany-Lee It is said that when something is written in the stars, that when values align, powerful change can happen and so it was

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Race Reflections

Guilaine Kinouani Rethinking inequality, injustice and oppression. DISRUPTIVE articles and think pieces. It is Race Reflections’ contents which propelled her to thought leadership when it

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Factories for Learning: Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy

Christy Kulz Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted

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Pedagogy and Privilege: The Challenges and Possibilities of Teaching Critically About Racism

Ken Montgomery This reflective paper examines both the challenges and possibilities of drawing teacher education candidates into critical examination of cultural, structural, historical, and discursive

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Critical mass podcast episode

This is an episode on BAME leadership in education. BAME stands for Black Asian Minority Ethnic. According to the Swan Report (1985) and a recent

Book

Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World

Ellis Cose Is a truly race-neutral society possible? Can the United States wipe the slate clean and surmount the racism of its past? Or is

Book

Because They’re Black

Derek Humphrey and Gus John Buy the book

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Decolonising the Curriculum Project: Through the Kaleidoscope

A manifesto, project, findings and recommendations. Click to explore the resource

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Assimilating Identities: Racism and Educational Policy in Post 1945 Britain

Ian Grosvenor This is an historical analysis of the central role played by the educational process in Britain in creating and perpetuating an identification of

Video

Why is my curriculum white?

In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, ’42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected issues of diversity,

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Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children

Stuart McNaughton How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political

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Belonging Through A Culture Of Dignity

Floyd Cobb, John Krownapple While efforts to achieve equity in education are prominent in school districts across this country, the effective implementation that results in meaningful

Article

Privileged

Kyle Korver When the police break your teammate’s leg, you’d think it would wake you up a little. When they arrest him on a New

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Experts answer your kids’ tough questions about race and racism

Jackie Mader “We need to talk about parenting,” my friend texted me a few weeks ago in the wake of nationwide protests and outrage over

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Educating for Justice

How the Education Enterprise Can Work Toward Social Justice and Cultural Competence. In this live talk for ResearchED US inspired by the presenters’ #FreedomFridays webcasts, Chris

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Don’t Tuck in Your Labels

Bennie Kara I am the woman that always has a clothes label sticking out somewhere.  In any given day, some kindly person will reach behind

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Race and ethnicity: How are they different?

National Geographic Race and ethnicity don’t show up at the genetic level, but the concept of race still forms the human experience. Click to explore

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What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia

Nimko Ali 14 countries, 42 women, each with a story no one has heard before. What do you do when you’re living on the streets

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‘Tone-deaf’ ministers reject BAME review of English curriculum

The Guardian Exclusive: schools minister rejects proposal by cross-party MPs for more black input into history syllabus Click to read more

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Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy

Olivia N. Perlow (Editor), Durene I. Wheeler (Editor), Sharon L. Bethea (Editor), BarBara M. Scott (Editor) This interdisciplinary anthology sheds light on the frameworks and lived experiences of Black women educators. Contributors

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Noire Histoir

Noire Histoir features Black history facts, literature, and motivational stories from across the Black diaspora. Join Natasha McEachron as she celebrates Black pride, excellence, and

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Sound System Culture Podcast Episode

Sound system culture in Britain.

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What Does a Black History Curriculum Look Like?

Whose life stories are missing from the British history we write and teach? How do we widen the way we look at episodes which are

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Twelve Activities for Activism

Hackney Services for Schools One way to challenge injustice, inequality and intolerance is by being active. This resource ‘12 activities for activism’ has been developed

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On BAMEed

Jonny Walker Teaching can so easily become a platform for hypocrisy. I plan lessons on healthy lifestyles  whilst eating a Greggs, for example. I chastise my pupils

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Influential Black Britons illustrated book

UK Parliament This resource contains stories of influential black Britons who have impacted UK laws and equal rights. Launched to mark Black History Month 2020,

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Gypsy Roma Traveller History Education Pack

Travellers Times When considering pupils of marginalised ethnic groups, how quickly would Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) pupils come to mind? Gypsy Roma and Traveller

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Dismantling The Master’s House

UCL #DTMH is a community of academics, administrative staff and students at UCL, committed to righting racialised wrongs in our workplace and in the wider

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Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service

Melissa Benn It is time for a radical shake up of the purposes and practices of our education system. Melissa Benn is one of the

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Come Through with Rebecca Carroll Podcast

Come Through with Rebecca Carroll is a podcast that explores culture, race and identity against the backdrop of the 2020 election. The series will provide

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Curriculum design and decolonisation

A secondary perspective from a Bristol and the South West regional network lead, Domini Leong.

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New CSI research reveals high levels of job discrimination faced by ethnic minorities in Britain

New research by CSI and colleagues at the GEMM project has revealed shocking levels of discrimination against job applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds. We made fictitious applications to

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Whiteness and Education

Whiteness and Education is a publication that presents critical discussions of White racism, White identity, privilege, power and intersectionality. Click to explore

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10 Documentaries To Watch About Race Instead Of Asking A Person Of Colour To Explain Things For You

If you, like many of us, are finding it hard to articulate how to discuss issues of racism, injustice, discrimination and privilege, we’d like to

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Diversifying and decolonising the curriculum

We need long-term solutions for the profession to enable children and young people to continue to receive world-class education. This future must be shaped by

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Recruiting a Diverse Team – Amjad Ali

An event from the Chiltern Learning Trust.

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White Allies MUST be Antiracist too

An educational nomad I have been thinking alot lately about the nature of the work I do. The training I offer centres on anti-racist and

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The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

Amelia Gentleman How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for

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Initial teacher training: understanding ‘race’, diversity and inclusion

Kalwant Bhopal There is little research which has explored how students on Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses understand and conceptualise discourses of ‘race’, diversity and

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Turn Performative Wokeness Into Allyship

It’s not a Black person’s job to teach white people how to be less racist, but advocates like Layla Saad continue to guide people through

Article

How The DfE’s New Guidelines Impact The Future Of Liberatory Teaching

Cairo Clarke, The Black Curriculum On the 24th September 2020, the Department for Education shared new guidance for PSHE programming which has left us extremely

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Young, British and Black

The Guardian The voices behind the UK’s anti-racism protests, Click to explore the resource

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Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain

Tariq Modood Muslims have come to be perceived as the ‘Other’ that is most threatening to British society. This book argues that what begins as

Audio

Race and Racism with Kehinde Andrews

In this series opening episode of Talking Race, hosts Professor Vini Lander and Dr Daniel Kilvington speak with Professor Kehinde Andrews about the world’s biggest

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Prom Plus: Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Culture

Novelist Louise Doughty, author of Apple Tree Yard and Stone Cradle, talks to writer Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places, about their shared

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There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation

Paul Gilroy This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the

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A test for racial discrimination in recruitment practice in British cities

Martin Wood, Jon Hales, Susan Purdon, Tanja Sejersen and Oliver Hayllar This report shows the findings from a field experiment that involved submitting matched job

Audio

Pod Save the People

Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from Sam Sinyangwe, Kaya Henderson, and De’Ara Balenger. Then he sits

Article

British Empire is still being whitewashed by the school curriculum – historian on why this must change

Deana Heath Jeremy Corbyn recently proposed that British school children should be taught about the history of the realities of British imperialism and colonialism. This

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The Black Curriculum

A research paper exploring black British history in the national curriculum. Published in 2020 by The Black Curriculum team. Read the paper

Article

Beyond George Floyd: Tackling racism in British society and institutions

Professor Paul Miller Racism and discrimination are endemic in British society and institutions. From education to religion, to health, to business and industry, to government

Article

My hopes for diversity in 2017 #BAMEed

Iesha Small When Amjad, one of the BAME founders, asked me to write a blog post for #BAMEed I agreed straight away. The team behind #BAMEed are

Article

Black people are more than racism

Iesha Small Why I keep saying no when I’m repeatedly asked to write, speak and train about racism. This year I have written 9 blog

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Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools

Runnymede This report is concerned with race and racism in England’s secondary schools. Drawing upon the perspectives of secondary school teachers acrossGreater Manchester, the report

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Leading Culturally Diverse Teams in the Workplace

FutureLearn – Free online course Explore why cultural diversity matters in the workplace and how multicultural teams can benefit your organisation. Click to explore the

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Black FE Leadership Group: If not us, who? If not now, when?

Amarjit Basi As a member of the recently formed Black @FELeadership Group (BFELG), I am hugely encouraged by the response to and engagement with our Open Letter since its

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Travellers

There are many communities of travelling people in Britain and there have been for generations. While most people accept their lifestyles, some in the settled

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Whiteness: An Introduction

Steve Garner What is whiteness? Why is it worth using as a tool in the social sciences? Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness,

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Aiming Higher

Runnymede Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy Read the paper

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The British Black Panthers

The untold story of the years when Black Power came to Britain and forever left its mark – the coming together, political ideas, leaders and

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The Psychosis of Whiteness

K Andrews Critical Whiteness studies has emerged as an academic discipline that has produced a lot of work and garnered attention in the last two

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Critical Race Theory

University of Birmingham From its origins in US legal studies, CRT has grown to become one of the most important perspectives on racism in education

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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

by Christopher Emdin Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with

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Decolonise the Curriculum, Pran Patel

What does ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ mean to you? Pran Patel looks at the school curriculum in the UK. He utilises his personal experience of education

Article

How to Fight Discrimination in AI

Andrew Burt Is your artificial intelligence fair? Thanks to the increasing adoption of AI, this has become a question that data scientists and legal personnel

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The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write

Sabrina Mahfouz Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as a TV chat show host and a plastic surgeon blackmailed by MI6.

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Black Britain: A Photographic History

Paul Gilroy Black people have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Eminent professor Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions

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How to ensure diversity is at the forefront of your school culture

A video recording of an event from UKEduStories with Bukky Yusuf and Mark Anderson. How to ensure diversity is at the forefront of your school

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Black People in Pre-Colonial Britain Podcast Episode

In this podcast we will be exploring the lives of black people in pre-colonial Britain, looking at examples uncovered from Roman and Tudor Britain, what

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Black History Buff Podcast

The Black History Buff podcast is a fun and thrilling journey through time. Covering the full historical tapestry of the African Diaspora, you’ll hear tales

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Pedagogy of fear: toward a Fanonian theory of ‘safety’ in race dialogue

Zeus Leonardo n education, it is common to put the condition of ‘safety’ around public race dialogue. The authors argue that this procedural rule maintains

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The language of power and inequality in education and leadership

Teacher and writer Jeffrey Boakye, sitting in for Michael Rosen, talks with charity strategist, writer and educator Iesha Small. They explore the language of power

Article

Race diversity on boards: our commitments to action

Emma Knights, Chief Executive at National Governance Association Two years ago the National Governance Association launched the Everyone-on-Board campaign at our summer conference in 2018 with the

Book

Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.

Beverly Bond From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays

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CST Decolonised Curriculum Audit Tool

This tool draws from the NEU Framework for Developing an Anti-Racist Approach and Show Racism the Red Card’s Guidance for ITT. Decolonising the curriculum removes

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Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the

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Race, empire and education: teaching racism

Marika Sherwood Quite clearly, virulent anti-Black racism (racial stereotyping, prejudiceand discrimination) had its origins in Europe with the trade in enslavedAfricans. But there is evidence

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Positive stories from diverse groups

Dual Frequency We create publications and teaching resources showcasing positive stories from diverse communities. Click to explore the resource

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Rife : Twenty-One Stories from Britain’s Youth

Nikesh Shukla Young people in this country are facing a chasm of doubt and instability. Mental health problems are widespread, university fees are rising, job

Video

10 great black British films

Black British life has been sorely underrepresented in our national cinema, but there have been hints of a resurgence in recent years. Amma Asante’s 18th-century-set

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It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

Mariam Khan Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim

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Visible and Invisible Barriers

A report exploring the impact of racism on BME teachers. Views from over 1000 teachers compiled by NEU and Runnymede. Read the paper

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Race Discrimination, the Politics of Knowledge and Cultural Inequality in England

Professor Paul Miller From the outside, one might assume England’s education system is tolerant of diversity, welcoming, and pluralistic. The truth is, to some extent

Article

Anti-racism charter

A framework to help you explore ideas around race equity and racism from the National Education Union (NEU). Click to explore the charter

Article

Towards an anti-racist curriculum: Step 1. Reading

Tom Sherrington Ever since the wave of discussions about racism that flowed from the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in June and July, I’ve been thinking

Article

Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms by Luckett & Morreira

Shannon Morreira, University of Cape Town and Kathy Luckett, University of Cape Town The curriculum is not just the “stuff” that students must learn to be knowledgeable and skilled

Article

White Privilege

Charlotte Belmore The area of ‘white privilege’ is the uncomfortable elephant in the room that is not going away anytime soon. The idea of racism

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The life and death of Belly Mujinga podcast episode

Guardian writer Sirin Kale spoke to friends and family of Belly Mujinga about her life and death. Belly, a transport worker and mother to an

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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Bell Hooks In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom.  Teaching students to

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Intersectionality and “Race” in Education

Kalwant Bhopal A free e-book Read the paper

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Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory

Bhikhu Parekh This important and much acclaimed book rapidly became a classic on first publication. In it, Bhikhu Parekh shows that the Western tradition of

BAMEed Resources

Organising an event: a toolkit

Penny Rabiger shares a toolkit for organising an event that’s representative of the education sector. Click here to read Penny’s blog Download a PDF copy

Article

BLM: Anti-racism a whole school approach

Hannah Wilson The Issue: It is complex. Who owns the voice? The Conversation: Chiltern using their platform and their network. Modelling how to take responsibility and

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How to Challenge Inequality with Elif Shafak & Afua Hirsch: Virtual Penguin Talk

Thank you for tuning into this Virtual Penguin Talk on How to Challenge Inequality, with authors Elif Shafak and Afua Hirsch. In this talk, Elif

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Race, Education and Educational Leadership in England: An Integrated Analysis

Professor Paul Miller In recent years, the issue of race in education in the UK have been submerged in wider discourses of diversity, leading to

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I Can’t Be Racist

Social psychologist Dr Keon West explores racial bias, and the concepts of both conscious and unconscious bias, drawing on the latest psychological and sociological research.

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Applying a Decolonial Lens to Research Structures, Norms and Practices in Higher Education Institutions

SOAS University of London The current report summarises a recent conversation event that was held at SOAS University of London to discuss research practices in

Article

Sexism, Racism and the Abuse of Power

Jess Many of us no doubt will have heard of the news story where  US Republican Congressman, Ted Yoho  was reported to have berated the

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Race and Children’s Literature with Darren Chetty and Lisa Stephenson

This episode examines the absence of race in children’s literature. Guest interviewer, Dr Emily Zobel Marshall, talks with Darren Chetty and Lisa Stephenson about the

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Diverse Voices – Authors & Illustrators

Bridget Hamlet According to BookTrust, fewer than 2% of British writers for children are from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background. We need

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Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race

Dr Pragya Agarwal A thoughtful, prescient read for any mother or father parenting through the unique challenges of this racially polarised year, decade and beyond’

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Pod for the Cause

“Pod for the Cause” expands the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate &

Article

How to promote diversity in schools: three strategies for positive change

Nicola Harvey Many of us are using lockdown to reflect on our personal values and take a meaningful look at the structure of the society

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South Asians in Britain

The establishment of the East India Company in 1600 began a complex relationship between Britain and India that would mark major shifts in the culture

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Thick: And Other Essays

Tressie McMillan Cottom In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom – award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower

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White Ally Podcast Episode

Picking up from the last episode on BAME leadership (which you should listen to first) we’re talking about what it means to be a ally

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Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain

Peter Fryer Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following

Article

There Is No Such Thing as a ‘White Ally’

Catherine Pugh I never use the term “White Ally” when I talk with family and friends. That’s because I detest it. A little twang of

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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

Bell Hooks “When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news,” writes bell hooks. “If the topic gets specific

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No Country For Brown Men Podcast

A podcast about being British, being Asian, and not being a doctor, lawyer or accountant (Sorry, Mum). Listen to the series

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Racism and Education: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

David Gillborn Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it at manageable levels. This is the inescapable conclusion of the

Article

Diversifying knowledge of children’s literature

Matthew Courtney In 2019, the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) released their second Reflecting Realities report, which explored ethnic representation within children’s literature

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What does Windrush mean now?

In April 2018 the Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigned and delivered an unprecedented apology for the “appalling” actions of her own department towards Windrush-era citizens.

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Black leaders matter: agency, progression and the sustainability of BME school leadership in England

The purpose of this study is to evaluate factors that contribute to black male school leaders’ career progression and sustenance within the teaching profession. This,

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Sway : Unravelling Unconscious Bias

Dr Pragya Agarwal Meticulously researched and well written. It will make you think hard about the judgements you make. An essential read for our times.’

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Institutional Racism in Schools: What Can School Leaders And Governors Do?

No school likes to think of themselves as racist. But subconscious bias and discrimination is playing a devastating role, argues Professor Paul Miller. Click to

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White privilege: The myth of a post-racial society

Kalwant Bhopal Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a

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How the Bristol bus boycott changed UK civil rights

Marvin Rees, the mayor of Bristol, discusses the 1963 Bristol bus boycott – a protest that proved to be a watershed moment in the UK’s

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Black Tudors: The Untold Story

by Miranda Kaufmann A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a

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Biased

Dr Jennifer Eberhardt In a single interaction, they might slip by unnoticed. Over thousands of interactions, they become a huge and powerful force. Jennifer Eberhardt

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Anti-racism resources

Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work.

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What Anti-racism Really Means for Educators

Jamilah Pitts Anti-racist work in all schools is essential. It is the exercise of hope, the practice of undoing and dismantling systems of oppression, the

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I am a Promise: Achievement of British African-Caribbeans

Yvonne Channer This volume presents evidence which challenges the persistent myth of black educational underachievement. By 1994, DfE figures demonstrated that African Caribbean children’s performance

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Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

BERA blog series: multiple authors This special series of the BERA Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK

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In Conversations with…Professor Paul Miller

In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson interviews Professor Paul Miller, the President of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration

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Pointless Diversity Training: Unconscious Bias, New Racism and Agency

Mike Noon The latest fashion of ‘unconscious bias training’ is a diversity intervention based on unproven suppositions and is unlikely to help eliminate racism in

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There’s a hidden epidemic of racism in UK schools – but it’s finally coming to light

Aditya Chakrabortty – The Guardian he two biggest stories this year are coronavirus and Black Lives Matter, and one of the places they meet is

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A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools

Bennie Kara A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools aims to provide starting points for teachers and leaders in creating a curriculum, either across

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Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

John and Athena Scalzi I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word

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Nick Dennis I’ve had a variety of conversations with teachers and schools over the last few weeks about history teaching in independent schools and the

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Me and White Supremacy for WomenEd

Cecile Halliday Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad came to my attention through different avenues. Firstly, tweets from @nourishedschool and @WomenEd so this prompted

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Revealing the colour of madness

Sinead Carroll Ph.D student Rianna Walcott was giving a talk on mental health to the creative industries in Edinburgh, when a woman approached her with

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Diversity in the curriculum: teaching and learning with human stories

Lyfta We know that asking someone where they’re from can come from curiosity but can often serve to make people feel alienated, because it can

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Black pupils warn of n-word abuse in UK private schools

TES ‘Terrifying’ racist abuse inside elite independent schools must be tackled, say current and former black students Click to read more

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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Brittney Cooper Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of

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Courageous conversations about race: school anti-racist strategy

This was the October event as part of our Courageous Conversations and Race series. Engage with this series of events and online learning here. Before

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Whole-school anti-racism audit

A tool for reflection and a plan for action steps from The Key for School Leaders. Explore the audit

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My hopes for diversity in the education profession

Governing Matters The term diversity means something which signifies a range of different things, an assortment, a mixture etc. When we speak of diversity, we

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Sudan is the biggest country in Africa you know – #MyDiverseEdPledge

Venturing into school leadership I’ll come back to the title of the post a little later on. I recognise that this is an inaccurate fact

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How have schools failed black boys?

In this video, Dr Muna Abdi speaks with young men and provides a platform for them to share their narratives and encourage change so that

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Exploring School Leadership in England and the Caribbean

Professor Paul Miller · What drives school leaders?· What do they do on a day to day basis?· What helps or constrains their decision-making?· What

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Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain

Trevor Phillips Broadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants from

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#antismalltalk – By Shuaib Khan Podcast

Podcast hosted by Shuaib Khan. Deep meaningful conversations from all things relating to education, Politics and Sociology. ‘I’m going to tell it like it is.

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Schools and COVID-19 – PDF document

Access guidance for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff and their employers in school settings. This document is informed by NHS guidance and contains

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How I changed my mind about the biology of race

The Guardian It has been common for several years now to assert that science shows the concept of race has no biological basis, and that

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University of Oxford podcasts: racism

A selection of podcast episodes on racism from the University of Oxford. Listen to the collection

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Say Your Mind Podcast

Kelechi Okafor is the host of Say Your Mind. Tune in every Monday for her unique and hilarious take on Tarot, current events and pop