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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nadine White

UK’s first national Black civil rights organisation launched by cross-section of influential figures

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The UK’s first national civil rights organisation established to advance justice and equity for Black people has been launched.

The Black Equity Organisation (BEO) was founded by some of the country’s most influential Black figures from the worlds of business, law, arts and social justice including shadow foreign secretary David Lammy MP, academic David Olusoga, chief executive Karen Blackett, business leader Dame Vivian Hunt and artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah.

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