18 h. ago The Guardian Footballer of the Year Jess Carter: ‘I remember not wanting to go out’

England defender publicly confronted racist abuse at the Euros and ended 2025 a title winner with club and countryThe Guardian Footballer of the Year is an award given to a player who has done something remarkable, whether by overcoming adversity, helping others or setting a sporting example by acting with exceptional honesty.Jess Carter has spent her life grappling with when to hold back and when to speak up; wrestling with being naturally herself, embodying the characteristics her parents instilled in her of being open, honest, vocal and confident, and subduing herself because, while society values those traits, in a black woman they can be viewed negatively. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Brigitte Bardot's haunting comment just weeks before her death

Brigitte Bardot made a haunting comment about her death online just two months before he star's charitable foundation announced that she had tragically died at age 91

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6 d. ago ‘It restored my hope’: how community action is confronting racism in Belfast

An initiative linking people across race, class and faith offers an antidote to silence, hate and growing divisionDonate to the charity appeal hereAs a black woman in Northern Ireland, Maureen Hamblin knows that racism comes in many forms. “It’s not just the smashing in of shop windows,” she says. “It can be quiet, it can be silent.”Bystanders who hear racist remarks and remain mute, as if oblivious, amplify the hurt and leave victims feeling alone and isolated, a recurring experience that left Hamblin drained. “There was a time when I’d lost a lot of faith in white people, in white men.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Young daughter of man murdered in racist attack left 'broken' and 'stripped of his love'

Kamran Aman, 38, was stabbed in the heart with a kitchen knife after being set upon by two strangers, aged 17 and 16 years old, outside his mother's home

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2 w. ago The 'first black Briton'...was white! Reanalysis of 'Beachy Head Woman' confirms she was from southern England and NOT sub

A woman billed as the 'earliest black Briton' was in fact white and from southern England, according to new DNA analysis.

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2 w. ago Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists

Exclusive: DNA advances show Roman-era skeleton, once hailed as first black Briton, came from southern EnglandBeachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England.The mystery of the skeleton’s shifting identity was finally resolved after advances in DNA sequencing produced a high quality genetic readout from the remains. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Four masked men 'held knife to woman's throat' before terrifying sexual assault

Police are hunting four men wearing black balaclavas who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint in Leeds on Monday morning, in what detectives describe as an escalating pattern of racially aggravated attacks against the same victim

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3 w. ago Black woman ‘drives 3hrs to confront troll who left racist comment online & makes shock threat if he doesn’t apologise’

A WOMAN has claimed she drove three hours to confront her racist troll, documenting the entire experience on TikTok. The TikTok user posted a video showing her journey to meet a man who allegedly had left racist comments on one of her earlier posts. Her account has since been made private, but not before other...

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