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The Law Society of England and Wales is marking Black History Month by recognising Black solicitors whose work supports Black communities across the UK. This year's theme is 'Honouring Our Communities', celebrating their leadership and impact within and beyond the legal profession.
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A Guardian writer reflects on the purpose of Black journalism in an abridged version of the Claudia Jones memorial lecture, hosted by the UK National Union of Journalists. The piece marks two years of the Long Wave newsletter and considers diasporic reporting amid a difficult political climate.
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A plaque at Portchester Castle in Hampshire commemorating 2,500 African-Caribbean prisoners of war transported to Britain in 1796 was stolen days after its unveiling. Descendants who travelled from Belize and elsewhere say the theft reflects enduring racism.
Read full story ↗Pensioners and families are urged to check eligibility for Pension Credit, worth over £4,500 a year on average. A government campaign will distribute 660,000 leaflets to ensure low-income households do not miss out.
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Damilola Taylor's brother says action on knife crime is needed more than ever, as a new BBC documentary retells the story of the boy's killing in Peckham 26 years on.
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A woman working as a council intervention worker was racially abused by two boys in April 2024 and has been awarded £15,000.
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A public history project, Global Threads, has studied links between the struggles of 19th-century Manchester cotton workers at the 1819 Peterloo massacre and the exploitation of Africans enslaved in the Caribbean. The research cites Black abolitionist Robert Wedderburn, who argued both groups were exploited by the same forces.
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An inquest heard details of the final days of three sisters, Jane Adetoro and Christina and Rebecca Walters, who lived together in west London and whose bodies were recovered from the sea in Brighton in May. Why they ended their lives may never be known.
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An inquest found that three sisters, Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters, who lived in London, took their own lives after drowning in the sea off Brighton in May.
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A coroner ruled that three sisters from London — Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31 — who drowned off Brighton on 13 May took their own lives. They had visited their late mother's former home shortly before their deaths.
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Obituary of Knox Chitiyo, a Zimbabwean academic who died aged 65 of bowel cancer and became an important voice in Britain on Zimbabwe and its future, regularly consulted by diplomats, journalists and activists. He was previously a senior lecturer in war studies at the University of Zimbabwe, where he co-founded the Centre for Defence Studies.
Read full story ↗The government is funding 1,000 new youth workers across England, described as the largest investment in youth services in a generation, to provide young people with specialised support in their communities.
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Police have told the BBC that tension and violence are rising among young people in south London, with some children in Lambeth and Southwark highly vulnerable to local gangs.
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A Guardian Long Wave column explores why ride-hailing drivers are often on long phone calls, arguing these marathon conversations help workers in solitary jobs navigate the dislocations of immigrant and diaspora life.
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The remains of slave trader Edward Colston are likely to stay interred at All Saints church in Bristol, which may be repurposed as a community space. The dean of Bristol, the Very Rev Mandy Ford, said the remains would probably stay where they are.
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Nottingham is becoming one of the first UK cities to introduce a balaclava ban, which its council leader says addresses 'substantial' problems.
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An investigation into St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, whose benefactors invested in companies built on the trafficking of enslaved Africans, with donors commemorated on boards in its Great Hall. Barts is one of many UK institutions with such links.
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Leroy Douglas was jailed indefinitely (IPP sentence) for stealing a mobile phone and his family have waited 21 years for his release, with his time served compared to that of one of Wales' most notorious murderers.
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