LONDON, UK — A community-led campaign launched during Black History Month by barrister, linguistic justice advocate, and Founder of BLAM UK and Afro-Creole Languages Week, Ife Thompson, is calling on UK exam boards to end the structural exclusion of African language families and Afro-descendant Creoles and Pidgins from the GCSE Modern Foreign Languages MFL curriculum. The campaign, backed byContinue reading “CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR GCSEs IN AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LANGUAGES THIS BLACK HISTORY MONTH”
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Did You Know Today Is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination?
Today, we recognise the global struggle against racism, especially anti-Black racism, and demand that governments take real and meaningful action to end it. This day is a call to action. A call to build a world where Black communities live free from racism, discrimination, and oppression. A world where we can live in dignity, withContinue reading “Did You Know Today Is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination?”
Chris Kaba’s family meets with UN
On Tuesday 17 January, our Director Ife Thompson and a member of the Justice for Chris Kaba Campaign supported the family of Chris Kaba while they met with the UN. During this meeting the family discussed their campaign for justice for the police killing of their son. It had previously been mentioned by Ife thatContinue reading “Chris Kaba’s family meets with UN”
