Why is IAM Important?
IAM (Islamophobia Awareness Month) raises awareness within society of how Muslims are discriminated against in various spheres, along with providing information on the positive contributions of British Muslims to the UK. It helps break down barriers and challenge incorrect stereotypes people may hold about Muslims, as well as providing an avenue for people of other […]
What is Islamophobia?
Islamophobia is defined as: a prejudice, aversion, hostility, or hatred towards Muslims and encompasses any distinction, exclusion, restriction, discrimination, or preference against Muslims that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or […]
Anti-bullying Week 2021
Join us at this exciting event in marking of Anti-bullying Week 2021.About this eventWe will be discussing a variety of topics including; Scotland’s unique approach to anti-bullying, Bullying & Additional Support for Learning and the power of raising awareness in tackling bullying. This event is a collaboration between ELREC, Children in Scotland and Respect me. […]
Islamophobia Awareness Month
Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM) was co-founded by MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development) with other British organisations in 2012 to deconstruct and challenge the stereotypes about Islam and Muslims. The campaign, held every November, aims to work with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC), local councils, journalists, local media outlets, councillor’s, local MPs, mosques, universities, schools, community […]
What More Can Be Done?
The UK needs more regional Black archives so it can celebrate Black British history in its entirety.Located in the heart of Brixton, London, an area that instantly brings to mind the capital’s Black community, is the national Black Cultural Archives (BCA). Founded in 1981, the BCA is the only national heritage centre dedicated to collecting, […]
Edinburgh’s Part in the Slave Trade
It is a side of Scotland’s past not widely spoken of – the disproportionately high connections to the slave trade, the legacy of that wealth on spaces like the New Town, and the relevance which carries to the modern day.Remembering how Edinburgh benefited from the mistreatment of enslaved people is important in ensuring that the […]
The Reality of Being Black in Todays Britain
Britain’s racism problem—we’ve made progress, but not enoughIt’s starkly evident that major ethnic and racial inequalities persist in employment, housing and the justice system. Black and Muslim minorities have twice the unemployment rate of their white British peers and are twice as likely to live in overcrowded housing. They are also much more likely to […]
British Black Panther Party
Inspired by the Black Power movement in the U.S., the Nigerian playwright, Obi Egbuna, founded the British Black Panthers (BBP) in 1968 in London’s Notting Hill. In Britain, people of Caribbean, African, or South Asian descent, who were mainly immigrants from former British colonies, were considered to be “black.” The tripling of Britain’s black population […]
Wymień się rzeczami za darmo
Wymień się rzeczami za darmo Sobota 20 Listopad 12PM – 4PM Eric Liddell Centre 15 Morningside Rd EH10 4DP Nie będziemy przyjmować darowizn tego dnia. Rzeczy na wymianę to: Ubrania damskie, męskie i dziecięce, zabawki, książki, płyty CD i DVD, przybory kuchenne Przyjdź i pomoż planecie ziemi! Prosimy o przyniesienie własnych toreb! DARMOWE PRZEKĄSKI I […]
The black British history you may not know about:
“We have existed in Britain and been pioneers, inventors, icons. And then colonialism happened, and that has shaped the experiences of black people – but that is not all we are.”These are the words of Lavinya Stennett, founder of The Black Curriculum, an organisation which teaches black British history in schools – and is campaigning […]
