Race

Why affirmative action failed

Higher education is not an adequate means to achieve a more just society.

Was Windrush a dream or a nightmare?

The story of black Britain cannot be reduced to a myth.

Against race essentialism

Black identity is a reality, not an idea.

Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye

Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…

Less than a third of ethnic minority women attend cervical screenings

Research shows minority groups in the UK are less likely to take vital cancer and sexual health tests.

How identity politics props up racism

There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a fixation…

Why has it taken me so long to form friendships with other women of colour?

There can be more openness between us now. Growing up, we were trying to feign whiteness and scared of being…

The innocent insidiousness of “Where are you from?”

People of colour are all too familiar with Lady Hussey’s question to Ngozi Fulani.

“Woke policing” isn’t to blame for rising crime

There are quite a few police officers who could do with being a little more “woke”.

Rishi Sunak isn’t the UK’s Barack Obama

He doesn’t represent change, hope or success against the odds.

Donald Trump is hardly the only Republican chastising American Jews

It is a fact of political life that right-wingers like to whine about “disloyal” Jews voting Democrat.

Black British values don’t align with the Tories – or Labour

There is no such thing – is a gay, atheist man of Jamaican descent the same as a Muslim British-Somali…

Jordan Peele’s Nope blends the political and the cinematic

In the award-winning director’s new sci-fi horror there are too many meanings to be absorbed in just one viewing.

The irony of the Commonwealth Games going woke

Athletes are taking on the contest’s colonial history.

Why did no one listen to black women about Tim Westwood?

We’re viewed as “on the take”, never innocent, fragile or vulnerable.

If the Tory leadership race produces an Asian prime minister, we might have something to celebrate

In the troubled passage towards living together in a multicultural democracy, Rishi Sunak’s election would be a moment to cherish.

15 March 1985: To be a writer and to be black in Britain is to be in a corner.

The threat of Viktor Orbán’s anti-mixed race speech

The Hungarian prime minister describes the world European and American conservatives are trying to create.

The limits of black and white thinking

Ibram X Kendi’s new book, How to Raise an Antiracist, is overly simplistic and dogmatic.

It’s absurd to say the Conservative Party isn’t ready for a non-white leader

The suggestion that ethnic minority Tories have betrayed their identity is its own form of racism.