Race issues
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Kick It Out and the Football Supporters’ Federation ‘dismayed’ by FA Council member Ray Kiddell’s remarks at a time when the FA is under increasing Government pressure to reform
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He’s played Sam Cooke, an EastEnders bad boy and a closeted footballer in The Pass. Now, Arinzé Kene has returned to writing plays – and to the violent summer of 2011 – with a searing account of escalating tension in London
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He had a hand-to-mouth childhood in a rough neighbourhood, then went to a football college. So how did the 37-year-old end up making the film of the year?
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A judge in Virginia has ordered teenagers who covered a historic school with offensive graffiti to read 35 books including Native Son and The Color Purple
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The diversity of Nasa’s workforce in 1940s Virginia is uncovered in a new book by Margot Lee Shetterly. She recalls how a visit to her home town led to a revelation
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I was among the first MPs to speak out against the president’s immigration stance. But in using the language of bans, the Speaker invites accusations of hypocrisy
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DuVernay’s last film, Selma, was overlooked at the Oscars. Her documentary 13th, which links Trump-era America to its racist past, is a hot favourite to win an award
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Defending the all-white cast in Half a Sixpence, Fellowes suggests diversity is trickier for period pieces than modern drama. Surely there’s no difference?
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One officer charged with the rape of a young man, and three other officers with assault over violent arrest in suburb of Paris
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History and reportage line up against fiction and a children’s book in contention for new award honouring UK BAME authors
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As his film goes head to head with La La Land for Oscar glory, the playwright tells how growing up in the Miami projects inspired his view of America
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Freddy and Leah are joined by Grace Shutti to discuss the ups and downs of being born with Afro hair
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I broke bread with Malcolm Turnbull. Now he's breaking my heart
Yassmin Abdel-MagiedMalcolm Turnbull claims to be committed to multiculturalism but his failure to condemn Donald Trump’s discriminatory travel ban tells another story
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The Irish-Ethiopian actor gives an Oscar-worthy performance in Jeff Nichols’ film about the effects of Jim Crow racism on a mixed-race couple in 1950s Virginia
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Hollywood’s major studios get failing grade on diversity as report finds that only 5.1% of top US films were by black directors and only 4% were helmed by women
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The Islamophobic ideologues at the heart of the new US administration have allies on this side of the Atlantic. We must all fight the spread of their divisive lies
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Students complain after just 6.8% of non-white doctors pass exam to become an emergency specialist
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Rise in incidents is blamed on factors including Labour party antisemitism row and rise in xenophobia after Brexit vote
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Billboard is part of group’s campaign to preserve section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
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I bought my five- and seven-year-old sons a toy gun in a supermarket. What happened next has changed our feelings about our place in Britain
Liberals, don’t fall into the right’s ‘identity politics’ trap