INVESTIGATION Hair discrimination is a perfect example of seemingly innocuous discriminatory policy that targets black women in socio-economic spheres. Alethea Farline investigates how this policy impacts education, mental health, and societal perceptions of race. RUBY Williams was sent home from school because of the way she was wearing her Afro […]
INVESTIGATION Hair discrimination is a perfect example of seemingly innocuous discriminatory policy that targets black women in socio-economic spheres. Alethea Farline investigates how this policy impacts education, mental health, and societal perceptions of race. EXPERTS have claimed that discrimination can have a devastating long-term impact on mental health and […]
INVESTIGATION Hair discrimination is a perfect example of seemingly innocuous discriminatory policy that targets black women in socio-economic spheres. Alethea Farline investigates how this policy impacts education, mental health, and societal perceptions of race. A PETITION has started in the UK to add hair discrimination to the Equality Act 2010. […]
INVESTIGATION Hair discrimination is a perfect example of seemingly innocuous discriminatory policy that targets black women in socio-economic spheres. Alethea Farline investigates how this policy impacts education, mental health, and societal perceptions of race. THE University of Sunderland is implementing equality, diversity and inclusion training to combat discrimination – […]
Stand Up To Racism North East travelled to London last Saturday to join the national demonstration to mark the UN’s Anti-Racism Day. Representing the North East was Labour’s youngest councillor, Sharifah Rahman of Darlington. The activists marched from the BBC’s Portland Place offices to Whitehall. Prominent anti-racism campaigner Diane Abbott MP […]
The number of people aged 18 or under that have been arrested for being racist in the North East has almost doubled in one year. Figures taken from Cleveland Police show that 56 people under the age of 18 were arrested for being racist in the year 2015/16. One year […]
Word on Wearside will be taking a more in-depth look at the day’s headlines affecting Sunderland and the North-East, as part of our In Focus series of podcasts. In this inaugural episode, we are exploring a call from a North-East lecturer to introduce a register for hate crime offenders.
Man has today (Monday 4th July) been charged following a racist incident that happened at a Sunderland Shopping Centre over the weekend. At around 3.40pm on Sunday (July 3rd) a woman was assaulted and racially abused in the Bridges Shopping Centre in the city centre. The victim left the scene […]