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The fight for black trans women's rights

The fight for black trans women's rights

'Black trans women rights are black rights too'

‘A splash of colour in a predominantly white world'

‘A splash of colour in a predominantly white world'

Amanda Hall-Davis remembers the life of her late uncle, Professor Ian Hall, who...

Positive Returns for JN Money Despite COVID Restrictions

Positive Returns for JN Money Despite COVID Restrictions

JN Money Services, the JN Group’s remittance arm, returned a positive performance...

JN Group Credits Capital Strength for Performance in 2020/202

JN Group Credits Capital Strength for Performance in 2020/202

The Jamaica National Group’s capital strength sustained its business during the...

Claudia Webbe: Trial drove me to brink

Claudia Webbe: Trial drove me to brink

Trial labelled a miscarriage of justice after prosecution withheld evidence from...

African and Caribbean graduates left out of new UK work visa

African and Caribbean graduates left out of new UK work...

African and Caribbean graduates left out of new UK work visa

Black parents stand up

Black parents stand up

Diane Abbott’s popular black child conference returns after series of controversies...

Claudia Webbe: Case drove me to brink

Claudia Webbe: Case drove me to brink

Trial labelled a miscarriage of justice after prosecution withheld evidence from...

Birmingham Business Pioneers join forces to support local entrepreneurs with Greater Birmingham Black Business Conference

Birmingham Business Pioneers join forces to support local...

Following last year’s success, the Greater Birmingham Black Business Conference...

Claudia Webbe loses appeal but has sentence massively reduced

Claudia Webbe loses appeal but has sentence massively reduced

Court hears how MP's accuser lied over relationship with Webbe's boyfriend, and...

Abbott puts Sunak on-blast over pitiful help for rocketing fuel bills

Abbott puts Sunak on-blast over pitiful help for rocketing...

LABOUR LEGEND Diane Abbott has slammed the Chancellor Rishi Sunak for failing to...

Jamaica to officially celebrate Africa Day for the first time today

Jamaica to officially celebrate Africa Day for the first...

The Caribbean island will celebrate the African influence on Jamaican culture, under...

Where is Sis Jean? Family of Bunny Wailer still searching for missing wife two years on

Where is Sis Jean? Family of Bunny Wailer still searching...

Bunny Wailer's family have urged the public to continue to share the picture of...

BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS PIONEERS JOIN FORCES TO SUPPORT LOCAL ENTREPRENUERS WITH GREATER BIRMINGHAM BLACK BUSINESS CONFERENCE

BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS PIONEERS JOIN FORCES TO SUPPORT LOCAL...

Following last year’s success, the Greater Birmingham Black Business Conference...

The Main Reasons Why iMind is the Best Video-Conferencing Platform: Users' Reviews

The Main Reasons Why iMind is the Best Video-Conferencing...

iMind video conferencing platform is a great solution for one-on-one meetings and...

Race action plan sets out to build trust in black communities

Race action plan sets out to build trust in black communities

Race action plan sets to build trust in black communities

Jamaica experiencing fifth wave of COVID-19

Jamaica experiencing fifth wave of COVID-19

The minister stated that the Omicron BA2 variant is likely to be driving the fifth...

Campaigning for iChange in the City

Campaigning for iChange in the City

Dr Miranda Brawn is running to be City Alderman with her "ICHANGES" vision for inclusion...

Change is here - new black civil rights group launched

Change is here - new black civil rights group launched

New civil rights body aims to scale up the fight against systemic racism at a crucial...

Social housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa wins national award

Social housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa wins national...

Kwajo Tweneboa scooped the top award for his tireless work exposing the poor living...

Mayor of Manchester backs city’s diverse future leaders

Mayor of Manchester backs city’s diverse future leaders

New scheme will put more young people from diverse backgrounds in top jobs

Journalists blast media for using images of black people for European outbreak of monkeypox

Journalists blast media for using images of black people...

African journos criticise mainstream media for racist stereotypes

Welsh school closes down after black schoolboy loses finger in racist attack

Welsh school closes down after black schoolboy loses finger...

Welsh school closes down after black schoolboy loses finger in 'racist' attack

'I can't breathe' - cops left severely asthmatic black British man to die

'I can't breathe' - cops left severely asthmatic black...

Ian Taylor repeatedly told the all-white police officers he could not breath and...

Lion bites off finger of staff member at Jamaica Zoo

Lion bites off finger of staff member at Jamaica Zoo

The man has lost part of his right ring finger in the terrifying incident which...

Remembering the amazing life of Olaudah Equiano

Remembering the amazing life of Olaudah Equiano

Marc Wadsworth, a producer of a new BBC docudrama about the abolitionist, writes...

£3 million fund to help divert young people away from violent crime

£3 million fund to help divert young people away from violent...

LONDON’S VIOLENCE Reduction Unit (VRU)  is investing £3million in a series of programmes...

Cops thought Sheku Bayoh was "deranged with superhuman power"

Cops thought Sheku Bayoh was "deranged with superhuman...

PC Craig Walker said fellow officers weren't racist, it was just "perception"

Police officer who restrained Sheku Bayoh denies racial stereotyping

Police officer who restrained Sheku Bayoh denies racial...

ONE OF the police officers who restrained Sheku Bayoh in a Fife street has insisted......

JN Group Invests Millions to Limit COVID Exposure to Members, Employees

JN Group Invests Millions to Limit COVID Exposure to Members,...

The Jamaica National Group invested heavily to ensure the protection of its employees...

Protesters call to 'end oil colonialism' in Africa

Protesters call to 'end oil colonialism' in Africa

Protesters call to 'end oil colonialism' in Africa

Grenfell Tower evacuation plans thrown out by government

Grenfell Tower evacuation plans thrown out by government

Grenfell Tower evacuation plans thrown out by Home Office

Guyana to give households grants to help with rising cost of living

Guyana to give households grants to help with rising cost...

Every household in the Riverrain and Hinterland communities will be given GUY$25,000...

George Floyd: Former police officer pleads guilty to manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison

George Floyd: Former police officer pleads guilty to manslaughter...

In exchange for Lane’s guilty plea, a count of aiding and abetting second-degree...

New team to tackle police racism

New team to tackle police racism

Chair of police scrutiny board brings on new team to tackle racism

Deportation flight to Jamaica leaves with seven people

Deportation flight to Jamaica leaves with seven people

A leading campaigner says charter flights are ripping families apart and leaving...

British Virgin Islands resists UK takeover

British Virgin Islands resists UK takeover

British Virgin Islands submits proposal against UK attempt for direct rule

MP demands answers over Stockwell schoolgirl arrest

MP demands answers over Stockwell schoolgirl arrest

Police defend sending 14 vans and cars to deal with kids saying PC was afraid of...

History made! First all-Black American team reaches the top of Mount Everest

History made! First all-Black American team reaches the...

The Full Circle Everest team has become the first all-black group of climbers and...

Trinidad and Tobago ready to ease world crisis by ramping up gas production

Trinidad and Tobago ready to ease world crisis by ramping...

Trinidad and Tobago want to lead in global gas production amid Ukraine conflict...

Buffalo mass shooting: Ten people dead in racially motivated attack in New York

Buffalo mass shooting: Ten people dead in racially motivated...

Buffalo Police have said 11 of the victims have been identified as black and two...

We want answers, say parents of girl cuffed by school patrol cop

We want answers, say parents of girl cuffed by school patrol...

THE PARENTS of a schoolgirl controversially handcuffed say their daughter has been...

Fatherhood Awards aims to give dads the confidence to talk about their emotions

Fatherhood Awards aims to give dads the confidence to talk...

THE FATHERHOOD AWARDS, the first people’s choice awards to recognise fathers' achievements...

We want answers, say parents of schoolgirl cuffed by school patrol cop

We want answers, say parents of schoolgirl cuffed by school...

THE PARENTS of a schoolgirl controversially handcuffed say their daughter has been...

Elders defeat council to win the right to play dominoes

Elders defeat council to win the right to play dominoes

'It's not possible to play dominoes without making a noise'

'Reform criminal justice system to protect black women'

'Reform criminal justice system to protect black women'

Six out of ten Britons think police should prioritise sexual offences against women...

Fatherhood Awards initiative provides dads with the confidence to talk about their emotions

Fatherhood Awards initiative provides dads with the confidence...

THE FATHERHOOD AWARDS, the first people’s choice awards to recognise fathers' achievements...

Anger as Afrikaners fight to display old apartheid flag

Anger as Afrikaners fight to display old apartheid flag

A judge previously ruled the old flag was racist but now a white Afrikaans group...

Fatherhood Awards initiative provides fathers with the confidence to talk about their emotions

Fatherhood Awards initiative provides fathers with the...

THE FATHERHOOD AWARDS, the first people’s choice awards to recognise fathers' achievements...

Uganda to build East Africa’s first nuclear power plant

Uganda to build East Africa’s first nuclear power plant

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that Uganda and Africa are only interested...

Taking care of your mental health from the 'Inside Out'

Taking care of your mental health from the 'Inside Out'

With Mental Health Awareness Week happening this week (9 to 15 May 2022), we are......

University of the West Indies warns UK to 'retreat' over direct rule of British Virgin Islands

University of the West Indies warns UK to 'retreat' over...

University of the West Indies warns UK to 'retreat' over direct rule of the British...

Ronke Phillips takes up ITV editorial diversity role

Ronke Phillips takes up ITV editorial diversity role

Multi-award winning journalist and senior correspondent for ITV News London, Ronke...

Black business growth must be given greater backing says report

Black business growth must be given greater backing says...

BLACK AND minority ethnic business owners must be supported in their efforts to...

Bahamas PM urges Commonwealth to take action on climate change

Bahamas PM urges Commonwealth to take action on climate...

PM of The Bahamas urges Commonwealth to take action on climate change

Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman: Cops lose appeal against their sentences

Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman: Cops lose appeal against...

A tribunal last year found the former Metropolitan Police officers left the cordon...

Sheku Bayoh called  "Scotland's George Floyd" by campaigners as inquiry begins

Sheku Bayoh called  "Scotland's George Floyd" by campaigners...

CAMPAIGNERS SUPPORTING the family of a man who died in police custody have said...

US Black Panther activist to be released from prison after 49 years

US Black Panther activist to be released from prison after...

New Jersey supreme court has ruled that former Black Panther Acoli is no longer...

Black people three times more likely to believe police are racist - poll

Black people three times more likely to believe police...

One in three ethnic minorities believe police are racist, reveals poll

Black women facing more racism in prison, says report

Black women facing more racism in prison, says report

Black women facing more racism in prison, says report

'They don't treat us like humans': Jamaican national slams Home Office as deportation flight set to take off

'They don't treat us like humans': Jamaican national slams...

'They don't treat us like humans,' says detainee as Home Office gears up for Jamaica...

Sheku Bayoh called  "Scotland's George Floyd" by campaigners say inquiry begins

Sheku Bayoh called  "Scotland's George Floyd" by campaigners...

CAMPAIGNERS SUPPORTING the family of a man who died in police custody have said...

Black excellence: Permanent Black Pound Day store to open in Westfield shopping centre

Black excellence: Permanent Black Pound Day store to open...

BPD will open a permanent store following a successful and landmark pop-up store...

Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit can proceed, says judge

Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit can proceed, says...

The destruction of one of the wealthiest black communities in the US took place...

Man arrested over theft of David Oluwale plaque

Man arrested over theft of David Oluwale plaque

Police hunt for second man underway as enquires continue into stolen plaque honouring...

Lynch mob murder: Jailed teen could be free while still a teenager

Lynch mob murder: Jailed teen could be free while still...

Family say the six-and-a-half year sentence and manslaughter conviction shows Des-John's...

Family and community search for missing six-year-old twins

Family and community search for missing six-year-old twins

POLICE ARE appealing for information after six-year-old twins went missing from...

JN Bank UK wins top award

JN Bank UK wins top award

Much-coveted award scooped at ‘the Oscars of the banking world’

Campaign group get go-ahead for legal challenge to Met Police’s Gangs Matrix

Campaign group get go-ahead for legal challenge to Met...

HUMAN RIGHTS organisation Liberty has been given permission by the High Court to...

Caribbean region urged to prepare for "above-average" hurricane season

Caribbean region urged to prepare for "above-average" hurricane...

Meteorologists have predicted 19 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes...

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