Sep 22, 2023
"You're categorised as not being particularly intelligent or able," says Jason Arday, an autistic Sociologist who became Cambridge University's youngest black professor.
Jason Arday was unable to speak until he was 11 and could not read or write until he was 18. As a PE teacher in 2012, he wrote a list of goals he...
Sep 15, 2023
At 14, Lemn Sissay inked his initials into his hand with a homemade tattoo. He didn’t write LS, but NG, for Norman Greenwood, which he thought was his name. Except that it wasn’t. His real identity had been withheld from him since he was born.
Born in Wigan to an Ethiopian mother, Lemn Sissay was raised in care;...
Sep 8, 2023
“We've got a government that's trying to gaslight the whole nation to say that racism doesn't exist.”
As the third Black woman ever to be elected as an MP, and then instated as a government Minister, Dawn Butler has been vocal on the disrespect that Black women face in politics.
As an outspoken campaigner herself,...
Sep 1, 2023
“The police haven’t changed,” says American rapper Ice Cube, marking 35 years since the release of the track “F*** Tha Police” that cemented his status in musical history alongside the hip hop group N.W. A.
Ice Cube is regarded by hip-hop critics and fans as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of...
Aug 25, 2023
Gina Martin is best known as the driving force behind the Voyeurism Act, which made upskirting, or the taking of pictures under a person’s clothing without permission, a criminal offence in England and Wales, after she was assaulted at a music festival.
The gender equality activist is now working to teach people how...