Our Lives Matter

Teacher Dr Cheryl Diane Parkinson explains how students are taught to equate Britishness with whiteness

As part of Byline Times’ series dedicating to giving a platform to new voices of colour, Neha Maqsood shares her experience of being in lockdown with her Mum and Dad during the Coronavirus crisis in Pakistan

Airbrushing the crimes of European history fuels the structural racism and conscious apathy we see in modern Britain, argues Khadija Akhi Uddin

Pruthvi Khilosia explores how cultural taboos about what is and isn't possible for those from minority communities must be understood by the creative industries

Creating a fuller, fairer picture of British history requires urgent reforms to the National Curriculum, explains Dr Cheryl Diane Parkinson

Continuing Byline Times’ series dedicated to giving a platform to new voices of colour, S Dorothy Smith from Virginia argues symbolic gestures alone won't improve the lives of African Americans

Chantel K Watts shares her thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement and asks: who is standing up for black women?

In the second of Byline Times’ new series dedicated to giving a platform to new voices of colour, Amina Shareef explains how George Floyd's last words resonate across the world

In the first of Byline Times’ new series dedicated to giving a platform to new voices of colour, Cheryl Diane Parkinson shares her experiences of confronting structural prejudice within schools