by Anisah Abdullah Baby Loss Awareness Week is now in its 19th year, and it provides an opportunity for us all to mark the lives of babies lost in pregnancy or soon after birth. Running between the 9th-15th October, this campaign allows dedicated time to put a spotlight on the needs of the individuals and families whose … Continue reading A Dark Truth: Baby Loss and Black Mothers
The Murder of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan is not just a Black problem, it is humanity’s problem especially including that of all Muslims
The 10th of January saw the death of 24 year old Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, a black man in Cardiff who was arrested for a breach of peace in his home and released by the Cardiff police without charge after spending a night in custody. According to Vice-Chair of BAME Lawyers 4 Justice Lee Jasper’s report, … Continue reading The Murder of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan is not just a Black problem, it is humanity’s problem especially including that of all Muslims
Rashid Rose: The over-representation of Blacks in the Mental Health System
The majority of Caucasians believed Africans to be inferior (Billinsley 1968) with the Encyclopaedia Britannia (1884) defined the word Negro as referring to Africans who “occupied the lowest position of the evolutionary scale". Accordingly, it was legally and socially permissible for slave owners to subject slaves to any type of physical force (Myrdal 1962). After … Continue reading Rashid Rose: The over-representation of Blacks in the Mental Health System
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