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On June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ employees from discrimination based on sex. This means that it’s now illegal to harass or fire someone for being gay or trans. Just last year, Allilsa Fernandez,…

With the coronavirus lockdown easing gradually in the UK, we are beginning to see shops re-open, social restrictions loosening, and lives very slowly returning to (something more like) "normal". But will there be a second lockdown in the UK, and…

On June 6 2020, sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found stabbed to death in Fryent Country Park, Wembley. Just hours before, they were pictured celebrating Bibaa's 46th birthday with friends. While news of their murder was tragic enough,…

A new campaign is raising funds to erect a statue of Jack Leslie, a star footballer who was denied a place in the England national team in 1925 because he was Black. The crowdfunder is hoping to raise £100,000 in order to build the statue at Home…

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, you may have come across social media posts about the crisis unfolding in Yemen. Described as the "largest humanitarian crisis in the world" by UNICEF, the ongoing civil war has been raging since 2015 following the…

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been far reaching, but we know the impact has been greater for some, including women, and Black and ethnic minorities. Earlier this year, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released figures showing…

The number of reported rapes have steadily increased over the past year, and yet the number of charges and convictions brought forward by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have fallen. According to The Independent, only 1.5% of almost 55,300…

In response to the murders of Black people by police across America and subsequent protests in support of Black Lives Matter around the world, discussions about race are, rightly, becoming more everyday. For many families, peers, colleagues, and…

On Saturday, June 20 at 12:30 a.m., Tennessee state legislature passed a bill banning all abortion after a “fetal heartbeat” — technically, just electrical activity, since a fetus’ heart hasn’t yet developed — can be detected, which is usually at…

Years of repeated restrictions on abortion access have dwindled the number of abortion-providing clinics in Louisiana down to just three, according to a Center for Reproductive Rights report. On March 4, the Supreme Court heard a case, June Medical…

Over the past few days, anti-racist content has been spreading around social media. Black Lives Matter protests have been taking place across the world and here in the UK. Both are a direct response to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, at the…

About 10 years ago, Alexis McGill Johnson was walking through New York City’s SoHo neighborhood, scrolling through Instagram, when a billboard caught her eye. It featured a young Black girl in a pink smocked dress, her hair adorned with a bow, the…

Before the nationwide coronavirus lockdown went into effect in the UK, pubs were among the first venues to be closed. Now the government has offered a suggestion of when certain parts of the hospitality industry might be able to get back to…

The government have responded to The Black Curriculum's calls to meet and discuss reforms to UK school syllabuses. The campaign, led by Lavinya Stennett, pushes "for the mandatory inclusion of Black histories in schools" and had requested a meeting…

Shukri Yayhe-Abdi, a 12-year-old Somali refugee living in Manchester, was found dead on June 28, 2019, after drowning in the River Irwell. The subsequent investigations into the handling of her case by police, and the circumstances surrounding her…

As demonstrations protesting the killing of George Floyd and other Black victims of police brutality swept the nation, many speculated the mass mobilizations would lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. But protestors can rest easy: A working paper…

Despite the hard work of trans activists and allies, The Sunday Times reported that a leaked document indicates the government is set to scrap reforms planned for the Gender Recognition Act (GRA). Proposed measures, drawn up under Theresa May’s…

In the weeks since George Floyd's death, artwork and signage honoring Black people killed by police or in their custody — including Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Layleen Polanco — often have something in common: flowers. The images elicit a beauty and…

In May 2020, Boris Johnson announced the government's plans to ease lockdown restrictions and, since then, UK residents have slowly been given more and more freedom to see friends and return to normal life. On June 20 it was revealed that the…