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People take part in a Black Lives Matter protest in Shirley, Birmingham
THE government must get its “knee off the neck” of black, Asian and minority-ethnic (BAME) communities in Britain, Labour MP Dawn Butler told ministers today.
During a debate on the impact of Covid-19 on BAME people, the former shadow women and equalities minister demanded that the government act on “structural and systemic racism.”
The impact of the coronavirus has been harder on BAME people, and those in areas of deprivation are dying at double the rate of those in more affluent areas, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
