Over 3,500 UK actors and creative talents including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Noel Clarke, David Oyelowo, Meera Syal, and Gurinder Chadha have signed an open letter calling for equal opportunity and appreciation for BAME talent at every level of the industry.
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Novak Djokovic’s father Srdjan has come to his son’s defence in the face of his irresponsible act of organising a tournament during a virus pandemic blaming another tennis player Grigor Dimitrov for spreading the coronavirus at a series of exhibition matches hosted by the world number one Tennis player.
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Clinical trials of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University has begun in South Africa and Brazil.
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World Tennis number one player Novak Djokovic has confirmed his positive test to Covid-19 after his organised Adria Tour tournament in Croatia and Serbia was forced to be cancelled following two top player’s testing positive to the virus.
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Though initial media reports appear to link the multiple stabbings in Reading park with the Black Lives Matter peaceful protest, police have confirmed the events are not linked.
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Keedron Bryant is a 12-year-old black boy whose song about the fears of being a young African American went viral has been signed by Warner records, a major US record label.
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Britain’s scientists provided hope in the fight against coronavirus with the successful trial of dexamethasone – a cheap steroid that reduces deaths by a third among the most severely ill patients.
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White celebrities including Sarah Paulson, Julianne Moore, Justin Theroux, Stanley Tucci, Aaron Paul and others partnered with the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) for a new video which urge people to speak up when witnessing racist comments or actions rather than turning a blind eye to them.
Dale Semper, London based black bank manager, who says he was wrongfully targeted by officers, and faced accusations of money laundering, terrorism and trafficking in an investigation which lasted more than two years before being dropped with no apology is suing the met police.
Juneteenth – June 19 – is the day that the last slaves in the U.S. were made aware of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was first issued Sept. 22, 1862, and enacted Jan. 1, 1863. Slaves in Texas did not know of former President Abraham Lincoln’s declaration until June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger announced the news of the proclamation in Galveston, Texas.