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Equality – Faith Communities and the Big Society 09/09/2010
The debate over the last few months around the Big Society, seems to ignore the Social Justice and Equalities agenda. A couple of people in the North West, Tanvir from CDX and Professor John Diamond, have both commented on the Big Society, Equality and Social Justice. The BSN have decided to hold its North West event […]
Looking for Connections – The Coalition prepares its spending review as the housing market drops and the US economy stalls – does it matter? 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on another significant week: “Not sure that we can cope with yet another “significant week” since the election and the formation of the Conservative / Liberal Coalition. But, it does seem to me that if the economic indicators in the US are right then [. […]
The headlines say one thing – cuts, inequality a lack of social justice and the Big Society advocates say another: what sense can we make of this ? 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on some of the headlines from the news this week: ” Looking through the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies released this week on the impact of the Coalition’s Budget and the increasing number of examples from the Voluntary and Community sector of [. […]
Looking for Absences – Social Justice and Equalities in the Big Society: what does this tell us? 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) points to continuing absences in the Coalition’s Big Society initiative: “I am struck by the notable absences in the Coalition’s Big Society project. There are, at least, two really central ones – for me- and they are any references to Social Justice and Equalities. […]
Summer Holidays, Stories and The Big Society: Why We Need More Than A Bucket And Spade 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reviews some recent stories from the national press on the Big Society: “Reading through the papers over the weekend the connections between the Big Society idea, the Coalition’s Budget and the emerging impact of the cuts became clearer. There are two articles which are w […]

The Black Jacobins by CLR James – a review for discussion

Pierre Dominique Toussaint L-Overature was a gifted military leader and law giver who transformed a slave revolt in the French sugar colony of San Domingo into a revolutionary movement resulting in the creation of the Republic of Haiti in 1803. The slave revolt in France’s most lucrative colony began in 1791 when news of the [...]

The Pariah Syndrome: An account of Gypsy slavery and persecution by Ian Hancock

Foreword by Dr. T.A. Acton Ian Hancock is a marginal man. Like all Romani intellectuals, he has had to live torn between the pariah status of his people and the embrace of a dominant culture which can hardly conceive of such a monster as an educated Gypsy. Some Gypsies in this position accept this, and [...]

Crossing the White Line

Resources:- http://www.crossingthewhiteline.com/page6.htm -

Soul Brittania – The Specials/Rhoda Dakar

RHODA DAKAR, known for singing with Two Tone bands The Bodysnatchers, The Specials and Special AKA will be collaborating with MIXED (Facebook Group) to write testimonies of the people taking part…

No change then.

- Eric Jay Report The Eric Jay Report was published in 1992. We quote from it’s forward:- “This report breaks new ground. Most research, by the CRE and others, has, not surprisingly, concentrated on racism, discrimination and disadvantage where their impact is greatest, that is, in metropolitan areas where most of Britain’s ethnic minorities live. [...]

Arthur Warburton – The first black professional football player.

Crossing the White Line – The Walter Tull story

Welcome to Crossing the White Line:The Walter Tull Story website, an award winning initiative put together by City of Westminster Archives and Walter Tull biographer, Phil Vasili and funded by Kick it Out and the Heritage Lottery. This website is part of a project, which aims to raise awareness and celebrate the short but historically significant life [...]

Stephen Lawrence 10 years after

Black Presence

The Black Presence website was formerly the Black Presence in Britain, history site about the contribution of African descended people in British history. The Black Presence in Britain website was set up in 1998 due to a lack of information about Black people in Britain to be found on the Internet. I was studying politics [...]

The International Slavery Museum

The International Slavery Museum explores both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery, addressing the many legacies of the slave trade and telling stories of bravery and rebellion amongst the enslaved people. These are stories which have been largely untold. For more than 2,000 years people in many different parts of the world have forced [...]

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