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1) Labour’s first black MPs 2) Nelson Mandela addresses Labour Party conference 3) Labour’s first black ministers 4) Black Labour women pioneers 5) Bill Morris becomes Britain’s first black union leader 6) The Battle of Barking 7) Doreen…
Operation Black Vote (OBV), an organisation I have been proud to support for many years, has done us a great service with its latest study of Black and Ethnic Minority (BAME) voting intentions. If you missed the key findings, they were that…
This weekend I will join thousands of people to march against the proposed closure of the Accident & Emergency and Maternity Unit at Lewisham Hospital. Lewisham's Labour MPs and Labour Mayor have supported local campaigners and worried…
There was some degree of upset last week when Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby tweeted the following message to departing Tory MP Louise Mensch: “Shut up Menschkin. A good wife doesn’t disagree with her master in public and a good…
In an almost hilariously delusional article earlier this month (entitled 'Labour in Manchester didn't cut it for working people. In Birmingham, we Conservatives can', which prompted me to rub my eyes and check the last set of local election…
I woke up this morning hoping that last night’s election result was nothing but a bad dream. Unfortunately, the first image that greeted me was one of George Galloway grinning like a Cheshire cat on my television. Why did Labour lose in…
Yesterday, Doreen Lawrence said, ‘the fact is that racism and racist attacks are still happening in the country’; Reverend Jesse Jackson said the black community in the UK were treated ‘as second class citizens – free but not equal, not…
By Jyoti Bhojani, Young Labour BAME Officer Last weekend saw the Bi-annual BAME Labour Summer Conference - the first real opportunity for ethnic minority members and supporters to come together since the new executive took their posts. So…
By Jyoti Bhojani It was once said that the Labour Party was the natural home of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) voters indeed, my grandparents are lifelong Labour voters. But this is no longer the case. With the shift away from two…
By Sundip Meghani Yesterday was an exciting day here in Leicester, as the Labour Party leadership hopefuls converged on the city to take part in the first of a series of special BAME hustings (click here for a timetable of other upcoming…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk As ComRes publishes polling that suggests Labour support is stagnant since the general election at just 30% (Con 36%, Lab 30%, LD 23%), today's events were mostly focussed around the BAME hustings in…
By Aaron Peters Tonight in London and once more on Saturday in Leicester the five candidates bidding for the leadership of the Labour Party will engage in hustings with party members of BME (black and ethnic minority) backgrounds. As with…
