At last night’s Ethnicity Awards, the late BBC newsreader and correspondent George Alagiah was honoured with a posthumous award for Services to Journalism, collected by his wife and their two sons. Former colleague BBC correspondent Reeta Chakrabati paid tribute: "George Aalgiah was a trailblazer and an icon. Although the industry still has many diversity challenges our TV bulletins now regularly feature journalists of colour."
Labour MP Dawn Butler was among the guests. We spoke to her about the challenges of working to combat racism. "Ultimately we have to dismantle structures and systems and that's a lot harder than just having one or two people in an organisation," she told The Londoner. "Sometimes you take a step forward and two steps back because the push back is really heavy and hard and fast."
