UK Black Lives Matter Activists #Shutdown the M4 This morning, UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport in protest at deaths in police custody and the racism of borders. Ash Sarkar reports.
‘They kill us because they see that we were never alive anyway’ – Black Lives Matter in the UK Wail Qasim on why the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in North America, has a lot to add to ongoing struggles on the other side of the Atlantic.
Silence = Death: Orlando, and Why We Can’t Let Racists Hijack Queer Grief Wail Qasim on the Orlando shootings, the portrayal of Omar Mateen in the media and the way liberal Western values are mobilised to marginalise both muslims and queers.
Islamophobia and Racism in the Twenty-First Century On this week's show Ash Sarkar and Wail Qasim discuss the changing landscape of contemporary racism and the rise of Islamophobia.