Theatre director and founder of Talawa, the company that champions writers and actors of African and Caribbean heritage

The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Brian Cornell to be replaced next year as retailer navigates boycott over its scaling back of DEI initiatives

A cell phone video showing a White police officer in Jacksonville, Florida, striking a Black man in the face during a February traffic stop before officers dragged the driver from his car has sparked ...

We’re pleased to announce the programme for the Voices of the Marginalised in History conference at the University of Northampton, Waterside campus,...

Victor Adebowale says failure to detect his mother’s cancer was example of ‘black service, not NHS service’ A senior figure in the health service has criticised it for deep-seated racism after his mother “got a black service, not an NHS service” before she died. Victor Adebowale, the chair of the NHS Confederation, claimed his mother Grace’s lung cancer went undiagnosed because black people get “disproportionately poor” health service care. Black British mothers are up to four times more likely to die during pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth than white mothers. Those of black and African or Caribbean origin are twice as likely to have a stroke, and younger, than white counterparts. Black African patients are two and a half times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act than white British patients. Continue reading...

Sir Geoff moved to the UK from Jamaica as a teenager and became known as both an academic and a human rights advocate.

A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games

Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

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An Interview with Archeological Conservator Charlotte Parent

Activists are ramping up efforts to hold corporations accountable with a series of upcoming boycotts targeting major brands like Amazon, Walmart, and McDonald's. These actions follow a nationwide econ...

Activists had called for boycotting the company after it announced a roll back of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts

Activist helped found a pioneering black publishing house that would play a key role in the fight for racial justice, says Angela Cobbinah

David Norris, whose parole hearing is due, denied guilt after being jailed for the 1993 murder in south-east London

This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women a...

Alex Wheatle, award-winning author and chronicler of Black British history, will continue to inspire and will be missed by many

The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

Manchester Art Gallery exhibition features gown inspired by outfit worn by abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond

Guyanese president says Venezuelan coastguard patrol approached oil facility in latest incident in longstanding feud between the two nations