The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence led to a profound and lasting impact on attitudes to race in Britain. On the 30th anniversary of his death, some people are asking themselves how far that change really went.
Gaverne Bennett, the author and creator of Black Literature Timeline, a project for the British Library, remembers Lawrence’s murder well. It was hard on the heels of the killing of Rolan Adams, a black 15-year-old who was murdered in a racist attack in February 1991, and people had had enough.
