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The changing face of diversity in the UK cabinet

Andy Burnham’s first cabinet includes four ministers from visible ethnic minority backgrounds: home secretary Shabana Mahmood, energy security secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh, AI minister Kanishka Narayan, and Lisa Nandy as culture secretary. A decade ago, this team alone would probably have generated headlines. Now, it has barely registered.

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Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts

Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

The Guardian - UK

Bristol memorial service pays tribute to civil rights activist Paul Stephenson

Paul Boateng and Sir Trevor Phillips among those present to remember man who played pivotal role in 1963 bus boycott

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Institutional racism blocks progress of black clergy in Church of England, report finds

Chair of church’s racial justice commission says study on advancement of people of colour paints ‘shaming’ picture

The Guardian - UK

Joy and pain, struggle and achievement – who best tells the story of Black lives?

We asked a group of Black Britons, some famous, some not: who do you most revere as a chronicler of the Black journey, in Britain and abroad?

The Guardian - UK

Peer demands ban on sale of ancestral remains after auction lists shrunken heads and skulls

Exclusive: ‘If we legislate to prevent the sale of dead coral we should legislate to prevent the sale of dead Africans and indigenous peoples,’ Lord Paul Boateng said

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Britain is not without its problems. But Vaughan Gething proves how diverse it really is

The UK now has ethnic minority leadership in Downing Street, Scotland and Wales – and it hardly even counts as a surprise, says the director of British Future

The Guardian - UK

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Benedict Birnberg obituary

Pioneering lawyer and civil liberties campaigner who paved the way for the abolition of the death penalty in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Rita Austin obituary

Other lives: Campaigner for racial and social justice who was first Asian women to stand for the Labour party in St Albans

The Guardian - UK

Les Ferdinand backs former head teacher's campaign to promote Black History in schools

Celebrities including Les Ferdinand and Trevor Nelson have teamed up with education consultant Neil Mayers to promote Black History in the national curriculum

Daily Mirror

Black Lives Matter UK gives £350,000 in funding for black-led organisations

Exclusive: Total amount given to campaign groups around the UK passes £500,000 since 2020

The Guardian - UK

‘She was not a woman to back down’: the fearless Black campaigner who helped to scrap the UK’s ‘sus’ law

Mavis Best, who died earlier this month, spent more than 50 years fighting racist policing and other discrimination. Despite her MBE, she never became part of the establishment

The Guardian - UK

What’s the story, diverse Tories?

For the first time in history, not one of our four leading ministers of state is a white man. Jason Okundaye looks at how this happened and whether it’s just political gameplay

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