The Guardian at 200: Windrush histories and mythologies of race in Britain
Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kehinde Andrews lead this two-part lecture that explores the Windrush story and how a history of systemic racism laid the foundation stones for influencing our attitudes to race in the present day.
Online workshop
Time: 6pm-8.30pm (BST)
Guardian Masterclasses - Kehinde Andrews & Kennetta Hammond Perry Photograph: Kehinde Andrews & Kennetta Hammond Perry
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How – and why – did the Windrush scandal happen? Did it really begin with the “hostile environment” policy introduced by the Conservative Party in 2010, or do the foundation stones to the UK’s ideas about race and migration run much deeper?
The mother of Stephen Lawrence said today that reliving his murder through the new ITV drama will be very difficult , but the next generation need to learn about the impact his death made on Britain.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence, 71, was discussing the upcoming ITV drama Stephen, which stars Steve Coogan as DCI Clive Driscoll, joined by Sharlene Whyte and Hugh Quarshie.
Her son Stephen was stabbed to death aged 18 on April 22, 1993, in a racist attack in south-east London for which charges against the killers were initially dropped.
DCI Driscoll later put together an investigation that secured the convictions of two members of the gang who committed the murder.
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The Nobel laureate poet Sir Derek Walcott once said that the English language is nobody’s special property: “It is the property of the imagination.” Much the same could be said for science. It should be said. Except this isn’t quite so. Not yet.
Data on who is doing science has recently been released by the Royal Society, the UK’s premier scientific academy, using figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, whose data is by far the most systematic
. The numbers show that in 2018-19, 19.2% of science, technology, engineering and maths academic staff aged 34 and under are Asian and 1.8% are black. In physics and chemistry, the proportion of black researchers stands at a sobering zero, rounded down, as these calculations do for ease of presentation, from literally one or two individuals. What’s interesting is that these small figures decrease further as a scientist’s age increases – as they travel through the hallowe
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