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2020
- Humiliation and Policing the Borders of the University (Discover Society)
- UK schools have targeted black children for generations – the education system is overdue for a reckoning (Independent)
- How American Power Dynamics Have Shaped Perceptions of Looting, From the Boston Tea Party to Today (Time)
- Continuities of Colonial Violence: from Hashimpura, to Delhi to Minneapolis (Discover Society)
- Government policy has left Muslim students feeling unable to speak up on campus (The Conversation)
- How one woman pulled off the first consumer boycott – and helped inspire the British to abolish slavery (The Conversation)
- Decade-long study shows why South Africa needs to stop stereotyping young black men (The Conversation)
- Lying about our history? Now that’s something Britain excels at (Guardian)
- Activists Are Pushing to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday. Here’s the History Behind Their Fight (Time)
- Enlightened racism? (ABC Australia)
- If #BlackLivesMatter, here’s how white people can show it (ABC Australia)
- Imperial to review its history and legacy (Imperial College London)
- Thinking with Gandhi on racism and violence: A letter to a friend (ABC Australia)
- To reimagine Trafalgar Square is to redesign the curriculum (LSE Blog)
- Can Non-Europeans Think? (Al Jazeera)
- Strained Solidarities: On (re)building a mass anti-racist movement in Britain (Ceasefire)
- White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream (Boston Review)
- The Black British History You May Not Know About (BBC Newsbeat)
- Explainer: what is systemic racism and institutional racism? (The Conversation)Seven Ways Businesses can Value Black Lives (The Conversation)
- Statues are Just the Start (The Conversation)
- From hurt to healing: my first confrontation with my own internalised whiteness was when living with a Black woman. This is how it went (The Medium)
- Study shows UK school textbooks teach a highly simplified version of US civil rights movement (The Conversation)
- “White guilt” won’t save us (ABC Australia)
- ‘It’s complex’ – race-related inequalities and ignorance in UKHE (The Post-Pandemic University)
- Oxford University to offer postgraduate scholarships for black British students (Guardian)
- Why is race still in the British blood pressure guidelines? (The Conversation)
- France’s ‘crisis’ with Islam: A legacy of 200 years of colonial brutality (Middle East Eye)
- Misremembering the British Empire(The New Yorker)
- Dozens displaced in largest demolition in years in the West Bank, reports UN relief office (United Nations News)
- Protect Palestine olive harvest from settler violence, Israel urged (United Nations News)
- The National Trust is under attack because it cares about history, not fantasy (Guardian)
- Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health (The Economist)
- Allegations of murder and ‘blooding’ in Brereton report now face many obstacles to prosecution (The Conversation)
- Tackling racial harassment in higher education (Universities UK)
- Nigeria protests target Shell in UK, Netherlands (Energy Voice)