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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.

The Conversation · Jul 30

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 · Mar 7

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2025

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 · Nov 9, 2023

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 · Aug 10, 2023

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 · Mar 16, 2023

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 · Mar 5, 2023

‘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 · Nov 29, 2022

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

Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2022