Curated Video
Jim Thorpe: Native American Olympic Hero
Football, baseball, basketball player – he was one of America's most talented sportsmen and the first Native American to achieve Olympic Gold glory! So why don't we see Jim Thorpe's name up in lights?
Curated Video
Breaking Barriers: Constance Baker Motley
Breaking through the limits placed on women and people of color was all in a day’s work for Constance Baker Motley. She was a civil rights activist, lawyer, judge and state senator.
Curated Video
John Rollin Ridge: the Native American Novelist Like No Other
We've had some great American Novelists? You've read some of them in school, right? But one writer you've probably never heard of is John Rollin Ridge, aka Yellow Bird: the first Native American to ever publish a novel about a fictitious...
PBS
To Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird?
One of the trademark texts of the American school system is Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. For decades it has been widely read in high schools and middle schools as a key anti-racist text. But how did this novel, with its...
Red Rock Films
Who was Jim Crow?
How one white actor's creation came to represent the most racist laws in America - and how those laws were crushed.
Press Association
Sunak says Britain is not a racist country in party conference speech
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that Britain is not a racist country in his speech at the Conservative party conference in Manchester.
Curated Video
Black people in 10 states receive racist text messages
Black people in 10 states reported getting text messages telling them they have been "chosen" to pick cotton at nearest "plantation." (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Trump rally at Madison Square Garden overshadowed by controversial comments
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s set was roughly 12 minutes long and included jokes about Latino, Palestinian, Jewish and Black people that many have said are outright racist. (Scripps News)
Press Association
Protesters rally in Trafalgar Square as United Families and Friends Campaign demonstration starts
A few hundred people have gathered on the corner of Trafalgar Square ahead of the planned United Families and Friends Campaign protest this afternoon. Activists are holding signs reading “No justice”, “no one forgotten, nothing forgiven”...
Press Association
Counter protesters march against a Pro-UK rally endorsed by Tommy Robinson
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism during a counter-protest against a Pro-UK rally endorsed by Tommy Robinson in central London.
Press Association
Sunak: Voting Reform will put Starmer in power
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a pool clip on a visit to DCS Group warehouse in Banbury ahead of the General Election. Sunak comments on Reform, postal votes and on the tax cut agenda he wants to deliver.
Press Association
Sunak refuses to be drawn on returning Frank Hester donation - full clip
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a pool clip during a visit to Gloucester Rugby Club.
Press Association
RIshi Sunak refuses to be drawn on returning Frank Hester donation
Rishi Sunak refused to be drawn on whether the Conservative Party would return the £10m given to them by donor Frank Hester, following alleged comments made about MP Diane Abbott, and he stopped short of saying the comments would fall...
Press Association
Met police enter bus sent to collect migrants blocked by protesters
Police force themselves onto a bus sent to collect asylum seekers after it was blocked from leaving a London hotel by protesters. Protesters had formed a ring around the bus which also had its tyres deflated.
Press Association
Protestors block Bibby Stockholm barge coach
Police remove protesters blocking the transfer of migrants to the Bibby Stockholm. The arrests were for obstruction and a racially aggravated public order offence.
Press Association
Sunak has ‘given up’, says Davey as he urges Lib Dems to ‘smash blue wall’
Sir Ed Davey has told the Liberal Democrats spring conference that the Prime Minister “sounds like he’s already given up” and that setting the general election date is “pretty much the only thing left that Rishi Sunak controls any more”....
Press Association
Humza Yousaf urges Tories to return funding from Frank Hester
Scotland’s First Minister has urged the Conservatives to return funding from Frank Hester and “tell him where his money should go”. Speaking at the London School of Economics (LSE), Humza Yousaf said the alleged comments from Mr Hester...
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Rishi Sunak delivers an evening address in Downing Street
General shots as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak used a Friday evening address to warn that democracy is being targeted by extremists. Speaking at a lectern outside the doors of No 10 Downing Street, Mr Sunak warned about the current...
Press Association
BBC apologises over use of racist term in news report
BBC director-general Tony Hall has apologised for a news report which contained a racist term. More than 18,000 people complained to the BBC over the broadcast, which saw social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin repeat a racial slur...
Press Association
Teenager who racially abused footballer Ian Wright escapes conviction
Patrick O'Brien covers up as he leaves Tralee District Court where he escaped a criminal conviction after admitting racially abusing footballer Ian Wright. O’Brien, of Sycamore Court, Ashleigh Downs, Tralee, abused Wright in private...
Bloomberg
From Aunt Jemima to AI, How Racism Creeps Into Design
Sep.15 -- Brands originally built on racist stereotypes have existed for more than a century. Now racial prejudice is also creeping into the design of tech products and algorithms.
Press Association
Sadiq Khan: Urgent action needed on toxic air
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Rosamund Adoo-Kiss, who lost her daughter 9 years ago in a death directly caused by air pollution, attend a summit relating to clean air in the UK. Interviews with Sadiq...
The Recount
Highlights From Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation Hearing | Day 1
Here are the top moments from the first day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
Bloomberg
Consumers Expect More From Companies on Racial Justice
May.26 -- The murder of George Floyd last year forced corporate America to pay more attention to racial justice. This year, the bar on how they respond is much higher. Public Relations Firm Edelman, conducted a survey and found that more...