12A 2020
The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a hub of community activism during the 1970s.
12A 2020
In 1980, black youths find freedom and romance at London house parties and in the sweet sound of a reggae genre known as lovers rock.
18 2020
After seeing his father assaulted by police officers, a young black man is driven to join the force, with hopes of changing racist attitudes from within.
18 2020
The true story of writer Alex Wheatle and his spell in prison after the Brixton riots.
PG 2020
The story of 12-year-old Kingsley, a victim of an unofficial segregation policy. Deals with adult themes.
The video above explores the impact of unconscious bias in recruitment. As demonstrated in the video, unconscious bias can relate to a variety of characteristics, such as gender, appearance and age, as well as race.
Rapper, poet and journalist Akala talks about structural and inherent racism and xenophobia in Britain.
George the Poet, London-born spoken word performer, discussing Black Lives Matter, and it's relevance to the UK, on Newsnight.
Instances of racist hate crimes have surged in the UK since the 2016 Brexit referendum. The rise of populist nationalism in many parts of the developed world testifies to the resurgence of fears around intensified immigration, and to the renewed power of racism.
Professor Mike Savage, director of LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and Martin White Professor in the LSE Department of Sociology, examines the varying forms of nationalism harboured amongst British elites, and considers how intensifying inequalities inform volatile nationalist and racist sentiments across British society.
Ibram X. Kendi's incendiary polemic is stirring, provocative and impossible to ignore. Here he explains why it's not enough to simply say you're not racist. Discover the book here: http://bit.ly/2KBWrxh
Robin DiAngelo’s bestselling book White Fragility has provoked an uncomfortable but vital conversation about what it means to be white. As protests organised by the Black Lives Matter movement continue around the world, she explains why white people should stop avoiding conversations about race because of their own discomfort, and how 'white fragility' plays a key role in upholding systemic racism. Discover the book here.
Jay Smooth is host of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture.
In this talk, he discusses the sometimes thorny territory of how we discuss issues of race and racism, offering insightful and humorous suggestions for expanding our perception of the subject.