Campaign to improve Bristol’s race equality
Julz Davis Julz Davis at the launch of Race for Power A new campaign aims to further conversations on racial equality in Bristol. Campaigner Julz Davis has started Race for Power to help tackle representation issues in the city. At a launch event, people wrote a symbolic card to Martin Luther King with their reflections […]
PFA Player of the Year: BBC pundits pick Premier League’s best player of 2019-20
An extraordinary Premier League season is finally over but who was the standout individual performer over the past 12 months? A total of 515 players have featured in the top flight during the extended 2019-20 campaign but only one will be named the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Player of the Year. Which man deserves that accolade? […]
When white supremacists overthrew a US government
Getty Images The mob burned down the offices of the Wilmington Daily Record A violent mob, whipped into a frenzy by politicians, tearing apart a town to overthrow the elected government. Following state elections in 1898, white supremacists moved into the US port of Wilmington, North Carolina, then the largest city in the state. They […]
Loren Dykes: Wales defender signs new Bristol City deal
Defender Loren Dykes has signed a new contract with Bristol City Women. Dykes, 30, recently joined Jess Fishlock in an exclusive club when she won her 100th cap for Wales. The new deal ensures Dykes will spend an 11th season with Bristol City. “I’m delighted to have signed for another season at Bristol City,” Dykes […]
How writing about the apocalypse changed my life
Arista Records JP Saxe was nominated for a Grammy for the song If The World Was Ending Eleven years ago, JP Saxe volunteered for a job as a “crowd enthusiasm human” at the Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Brits. That night, he stood in Newfoundland’s Mile One Stadium and cheered as Michael Bublé, Barenaked […]
Mali imam challenges President Keïta
AFP Brushing aside any concern about coronavirus, huge crowds are sustaining a campaign of mass protest across Mali, demanding the resignation of the West African state’s increasingly beleaguered President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Corruption and cronyism, weak public services and national leadership, electoral malpractice and the government’s inability to bring an end to inter-communal and jihadist […]
Luis Rubiales: Spanish football federation president says he will continue defending himself
Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has said he will continue defending himself “to prove the truth”. Rubiales, 46, has been widely criticised after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain’s Women’s World Cup final win in Sydney, Australia on 20 August. Hermoso said the kiss during the medal ceremony was not […]
Harlequins Women v Leinster Women: Linda Djougang’s amazing journey to Twickenham
By the age of nine Djougang had never left the city of her birth. But, leaving her mother behind, she undertook the flight alone and was met by her father in Ireland. She describes arriving in Rush, with its different language, culture and food, as “terrifying” but 14 years later the prop is settled in […]
UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women
BBC Women with darker skin are more than twice as likely to be told their photos fail UK passport rules when they submit them online than lighter-skinned men, according to a BBC investigation. One black student said she was wrongly told her mouth looked open each time she uploaded five different photos to the government […]
How the Danish political drama has been ‘reinvented’
Netflix Sidse Babett Knudsen plays Danish politician Birgitte Nyborg in the series Danish political drama Borgen is back on the small screen after an almost decade-long break. A fictional oil discovery in Greenland drives the plot, and the idea came to life after a sitting politician met its writer on a cooking show. Running from […]