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Does cricket suffer from ‘institutional racism’?

The Spectator 28 Jun 2023

Take, for example, the identification of a severe decline in cricket participation by black Britons ... Two or three decades ago most black Britons had Afro-Caribbean heritage. Nowadays black Britons increasingly have backgrounds in places like West Africa, where cricket is relatively ...

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Watchdogs to announce measures to ‘ease the burden on consumers’

AOL 28 Jun 2023

Mr Hunt met with bosses including the CMA’s Sarah Cardell, David Black of Ofwat and Jonathan Brearley of Ofgem. It comes as Britons have witnessed rampant inflation through sharp jumps across a raft of their household ...

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Classism, racism and misogyny widespread in cricket, finds report

Phys Dot Org 28 Jun 2023

... in the black experience of migration and settlement in Britain after World War 2 ... Collins said, "The historical injustices suffered within the game of cricket by black Britons in the postwar period—so many lives ruined—may be acknowledged, but can never be fully compensated for.

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This Is Not America by Tomiwa Owolade review – black and British… and a world apart

The Guardian 26 Jun 2023

Specifically, I was, it turned out, a Black historian ... The editor was dismayed when I complained about not wanting to be racialised in this way; he imagined I’d be delighted with the capitalisation and upgrade from black to Black ... even today British newspapers are more likely to genuflect in front of an African American than a black Briton.

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Britain’s race delusion

New Statesman 25 Jun 2023

Others embraced black identity ... “The damage that will be done by seeing black Britons through the perspective of black Americans, or through an abstract black identity, is that it stops us from precisely identifying the racial inequalities in our society – the issues that face them and other ethnic minority people in the country.”.

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Britain marks the Windrush Anniversary complicated by scandal and racism

The Grio 23 Jun 2023

In 1958, racially motivated attacks on Black residents in Notting Hill sparked days of rioting ... The speech helped sparked a surge of protest and resistance by Britons of color ... Black Britons continue to have more poverty and worse health than their white compatriots, a gap bleakly exposed by higher death rates in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Windrush Scandal’ 5 Years On – What needs to change?

Human Rights Watch 23 Jun 2023

As Black Britons from predominantly former British colonies, they were invited by the UK government after 1948 to live and work in the UK after World War II to help rebuild the country and assured that they would be able to remain in the UK. But many years later, their citizenship was questioned, uprooting the lives they had built here ... ....

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Dancehall legend Tippa Irie on Windrush: ‘Black Britons are still not accepted’

The Independent 22 Jun 2023

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Britain marks the Windrush anniversary with the story of its Caribbean community still being written

Killeen Daily Herald 22 Jun 2023

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Was Windrush a dream or a nightmare?

New Statesman 22 Jun 2023

Black Caribbean Britons have also intermarried with the white British population, and by the end of this century most of the descendants of the celebrated Windrush generation might be visually indistinguishable from white British people ... and made space for black Britons.

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Team GB release new poem to celebrate 75th anniversary of arrival of the Windrush generation

Inside The Games 22 Jun 2023

During the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London a giant model of the Empire Windrush entered the stadium to symbolise the hundreds of thousands of black Britons who migrated from the Caribbean islands and played such a prominent role re-establishing Britain after it had been bought to its knees by the cost of the Second World War ... .

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Duncan Mackay: British sport owes a massive debt to the Windrush generation

Inside The Games 22 Jun 2023

The Windrush generation were even celebrated during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London when giant model of the Empire Windrush entered the stadium to symbolise the hundreds of thousands of black Britons who migrated from the Caribbean islands and played such ...

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Sierra Leone: African Leaders in Sierra Leone Played a Key Role in Ending the Transatlantic ...

All Africa 21 Jun 2023

Founded in 1787 by a group of 400 black Britons from London, the colony ...

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The stupidity of the Oscars’ diversity quotas

The Spectator 20 Jun 2023

All The President’s Men – why not call it All The President’s Women? Best Picture of 1939 Gone with the Wind featured black actors – but it was a sickeningly racist romp ... It’s our old chum Magical Thinking which says that women can be men – and that Regency-era black Britons were rich and powerful.

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Dear white Britain: we hate to say we told you so about Boris Johnson – ...

The Guardian 19 Jun 2023

At the outset of his ascent in frontline politics, Black Britons warned that Johnson was immoral and unscrupulous ... Had Britain “heard” the screams of caution from Black people ...