Meet Daniel, from London, Boston and Rowhedege
The recent focus on the Black Lives Matter movement and the terrible murder of George Floyd in the USA has brought back memories of racial abuse, injustice and inequality. [...]
This is Not a Movie
Here I am in my sixth decade on earth feeling new-born and kickin' as I hit the high street - Fore Street, rather - of my new village, my [...]
Marisse’s story: Growing up in Devon as a biracial British Filipina
Beautiful North Devon is where I was born and where I have spent most of my life. I am proud to call this place home now, but that wasn’t [...]
Meet Nina, from Torbay
I’m Nina and I’m mixed race. I was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria to a white Jewish teenage mother and (absent) Jamaican father, and went on to have a somewhat [...]
Meet Ramela, an Armenian from many places
When my patients ask me where I am from, I usually reply, “Wyke Regis in Weymouth.” They shake their heads and ask, “No, nurse, where are you really from?” [...]
Meet Fin, from Cornwall
(Fin’s story as told by himself and his mum, Colleen to Louisa Adjoa Parker) Fin is 8 years old and lives near St Austell, Cornwall. He defines himself as [...]
Meet Sethina, who is mixed Ghanaian and British
I was born in Accra, Ghana, and lived there until I was 3. My mother is from Bristol and the south west, as were my grandparents Hugh and Sonia. [...]
Meet Nick from Buckfastleigh: The family moves out of London
My maternal grandfather was a white, working-class, London man made good. He was born in 1901; patriotic, racist, paternal, homophobic and sexist. He voted Conservative. But he was also [...]
Meet Martha, from the Cotswolds
I’ve lived in London for ten years but I am from a small village in the Cotswolds. I would say that I’m mixed race or Black. I use brown [...]
Meet Dan’s mum Dareth, who’s black British and lives in Stroud
I live in Stroud, Gloucestershire, which is a rural town about 10 miles from Gloucester. I define myself as black, born in England to black Jamaican parents. I was [...]