The Institute of Race Relations has been awarded a grant of £49,800 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create an educational Black History Collection. The grant has been made to allow the IRR, which has been collecting materials created by Black organisations and/or on Black struggles since the 1950s, to form these into a coherent
Theme: Managed migration
Black Experience Archive Trust launch
An inspiring new project has brought activists and Black schoolchildren in North London together to create an innovative digital community history archive. West Green BEAT (Black Experience Archive Trust) is a collaboration between activist film-makers Migrant Media, Parkview Academy and the West Green Learning Centre in Tottenham and the London Metropolitan Archives. More than forty
NUT charter promotes achievement of Black boys
In April the National Union of Teachers (NUT) took the opportunity of their annual conference in Harrogate to launch Born to be Great, a Charter on Promoting the Achievement of Black Caribbean Boys. On the basis of the NUT’s belief in the fundamental right of all groups in society to the public provision of quality
The fight over ESOL continues
The Save ESOL Campaign comprising, over 50 organisations, marches on 28 April against the recent cuts to English classes for immigrants and asylum seekers. The march is to highlight the fact that many migrant workers and refugees need these English classes in order to play a full part in society. The campaigners want the ESOL
Scotland’s BME resource library
Edinburgh-based voluntary organisation Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project (MECOPP) has launched a national resource library for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME ) communities, supported by the Big Lottery Fund, which holds information on a variety of health and social care issues. While MECOPP works specifically to support BME carers in the Lothians, the new
National continence charity tackles under-representation
Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence (ERIC), the national charity providing information and support on childhood problems of bedwetting, daytime wetting, constipation and soiling, is anxious to extend its work within Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. Around one in twelve young people in the UK are affected, but it has become apparent that
Theatre: representations of slavery and the Black Character
How fitting for a book on racism on the Victorian stage to be published in the week Britain tries to commemorate the bicentenary of outlawing the Atlantic slave trade! Freedom Day, with our classic national blend of self-congratulation and self-recrimination, gives a good entry point into the world of popular theatre in those next few
Slavery and racism on the British stage
Launching her book Racism on the Victorian Stage at the Institute of Race Relations, Race & Class co-editor and historian Hazel Waters talked about the destructive impact of slavery on White British culture. This month we are being encouraged to celebrate the bicentennial of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Speaking to an audience
New IRR report catalogues appalling treatment of Europe’s ‘foreign’ children
The UK and the other countries of Europe are signatories to children’s rights conventions and yet they are systematically robbing a whole group of children of their basic, human rights by classifying them not as children but as foreigners and asylum seekers. In a new report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), ‘They are
In defence of multiculturalism
A briefing paper explaining and defending multiculturalism has been published today by the Institute of Race Relations. As the government’s commission on integration and cohesion questions the basis of multiculturalism, the independent charity, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), publishes a short, practical guide to the concept, drawing on discussions at its ‘Racism, Liberty and