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The March: what happened
Something happened that we couldn't ignore. On 28 March, around 500,000 people marched through London with the Together Alliance. Among them was a Birmingham bloc: eight organisations, hundreds of people, six coaches. It was organised by our very own Lakshnie Hettihewa, starting from her living room in Moseley. So we have produced a bonus episode of our podcast, The Quiet Revolution . You'll hear Lakshnie narrate the journey through audio journals recorded along the way. You
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The Prophecies of James Baldwin - brap’s 5th bootcamp
Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963) Every day, many of us wake up to a world we struggle to recognise. We were encouraged to believe that racism was in decline. That progress was inevitable. That renewed commitments to anti-racism - catalysed again by the murder of George Floyd - were taking hold. And yet, here we are. History reminds us that we stand where we do today because of the
Apr 122 min read


When did you realise you are white?: Episode 5 of the Quiet Revolution
Here's a version of a video we sometimes show in our development courses. The setup is simple. Children are presented with two dolls - one black and one white - and asked a series of questions: Which doll is the pretty doll? Which doll is the nice doll? Which doll is the ugly one? Why? Have a watch and see how you feel. When we showed a version of this to Ian Garlington from South West London and St George's he felt sick. It's just devastating to watch, devastating. It's bee
Apr 112 min read
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