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From my colleague Joseph Harker
Given today’s Sewell report on racism, our talk tonight on how things have changed – from the Brixton riots to #BlackLivesMatter – is perfectly timed. Join Alex Wheatle, Linda Bellos, and Natasha Johnson of All Black Lives. Tickets here: https://t.co/Y1NmXzb8Dd #GuardianLive
This is what Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary, said about what was revealed in the overnight briefing on the report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:
What I’d really like to see from the report is a recognition that we’ve had report after report after report, but very little action has been taken.
At a time when black Caribbean children are three and a half more times likely to be excluded from school than their white counterparts, when black children are four times more likely to be arrested, we have got a problem and we’ve got to deal with it.
