Refugees Welcome

Through La Morada, open since 2009, the family has fought gentrification, deportations and what they see as unjustified arrests. On its website, La Morada described itself as undocumented-family owned. There is a lot of fear here, fear of exposure, fear of b…

This week has seen the debate on the use of criminal justice responses to children and young people reignited, with many key policy makers and senior professionals almost exclusively concluding that the current age of criminal responsibility, at 10 years old,…

Far-right group Britain First is being investigated by counterterror police after its leader was stopped at Heathrow airport as he returned from Russia.  Paul Golding and two other senior members of the anti-Muslim organisation were questioned under terror l…

Londoners gather to pay tribute to 39 dead Chinese migrants

A 'metal coffin' lorry container carrying Chinese migrants had crossed the Channel twice in the week before it arrived in Britain with 39 frozen bodies inside, it was revealed today. GPS tracking on the -25C sound-proofed container shows that it stopped in t…

Crowds gathered in London and Belfast last night as vigils were held to remember the 39 Chinese migrants who lost their lives in a shipping container bound for the UK. In Belfast a small crowd of people held lit candles at the front of City Hall as a mark of…

Nearly a third of employed adults have experienced or witnessed racism in the workplace, new research has found. Job and recruitment website Glassdoor recently released its Diversity and Inclusion Study 2019, which investigated the extent to which discrimina…

SALEM, Ore. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has responded to President Donald Trump's executive order giving state and local governments the authority to refuse to accept refugees. Brown said in a video posted Monday on Twitter that refugees are welcome in Oregon, an…

AT&T has pulled a pro-equality video from its website and YouTube page that featured a congresswoman who co-introduced legislation to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) after VICE noted her presence in the video in a story a…

Actor Lupita Nyongo has warned of the dangers of colourism, revealing she longed for lighter skin when she was younger. I had a sister who was lighter-skinned, and people would coo over her in ways they wouldnt at me, so I definitely internalised that, the B…