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Race & religion

March 2024

  • Comedy Queens with Mirza second right.

    ‘We’re the Muslim Spice Girls!’ Shazia Mirza on finding box office gold with her halal comedy supergroup

    After years as the only Muslim woman on the comedy circuit, the standup is now making history with a female touring troupe. She relives the attacks she faced on the way, from ‘letterbox’ burqa taunts to Isis allegations

February 2024

  • People pray at a mosque

    ‘Unlike 9/11, we’re fighting back’: Arab Americans in Dearborn are resilient in the face of Islamophobia

    Lessons learned from anti-Arab attacks in the early 2000s help a new generation respond to hateful rhetoric and threats

November 2023

  • Every Body Outdoors - Kendal plus size walking group

    Kendal Mountain Festival 2023 celebrates adventure for all

  • A Sikh regiment of the Indian army on the march in France in 1914.

    The rituals of Poppy Day are a vital antidote to extreme voices in British society

    Sunder Katwala

June 2023

  • FINAL WINDRUSH ARTWORK (1)

    Windrush at 75: books that shaped the black British experience

    David Olusoga, Bernardine Evaristo and David Lammy are among the leading writers, artists, politicians and broadcasters who have chosen 75 books to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

May 2023

  • Cotton Capital podcast artwork

    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: the Guardian and reparations

    Cotton Capital editor and Guardian journalist Maya Wolfe-Robinson looks at the subject of reparations. What do reparations mean for the communities and descendants of transatlantic enslavement – and what is the Guardian planning to do in its own programme of measures?

April 2023

  • Kenan Malik

    Diane Abbott’s letter shows how antiracism has been reduced to decrying ‘white privilege’

    Kenan Malik
  • Kenan Malik

    When Cleopatra was alive, she wasn’t categorised by the colour of her skin

    Kenan Malik
  • Zoya Raza-Sheikh laments the loss of gal-dem

    Farewell gal-dem. You were disruptive, joyful and you gave us a voice

    Zoya Raza-Sheikh
  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Visits Leeds<br>LEEDS, ENGLAND - APRIL 03: Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) and Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman (C) attend a meeting of the Grooming Gang Taskforce during a visit to the offices of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) on April 3, 2023 in Leeds, England. (Photo by Lindsey Parnaby - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

    Sexual abuse in sport
    The Observer view on the dangers of exploiting child sex abuse for political gain

March 2023

  • Mostafa Rachwani

    The Swap uses kids in a ‘bold social experiment’. But it’s simplistic at best and harmful at worst

    Mostafa Rachwani
    Swapping students from an Islamic school with those from Catholic and public schools, SBS’s new show is a ham-fisted attempt to build bridges that could end up doing the opposite

January 2023

  • Colin Grant, at home in Brighton.

    ‘My father ruled through pain’: Colin Grant on the stories behind I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be

    As a child he knew both love and violence; as an adult, both recognition and rejection. The writer talks about his marijuana-dealer father, his clashes at the BBC and the police stop-and-searches that drove him out of London

September 2022

  • Protests in central London on 10 September over the killing of Chris Kaba

    Ofcom investigates Sky News over Chris Kaba protest mix-up

    Presenter wrongly suggested people marching over police shooting were heading to palace to mourn the Queen

June 2022

  • ‘We try so hard to fight for our beauty’ … Deborah Roberts.

    ‘The story enraged me’ – US artist Deborah Roberts on her Child Q collage

    She used to work in a shoe-shop but her work now sells for huge sums and is collected by big museums and Beyoncé. The African American explains why she tackled the shocking strip-search of a 15-year-old girl in a London school

May 2022

  • Demonstrators gather outside the BBC Broadcasting House ahead of a march as part of United Nations Anti-Racism Day in London, United Kingdom on March 19, 2022

    Progressives left behind as the right wages war on woke

    Letters: Andrew Dobson wants the left to reclaim the language of liberty, while Amaryllis Roy says excessive political correctness can deter many people from progressive ideas

March 2022

  • A person walks in front of the Indigenous Australian and Australian flags displayed side by side

    A decent and fair Australia? The solution may lie in the old fashioned notion of community

    Melissa Lucashenko
  • Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Trojan horse: the real story behind the fake ‘Islamic plot’ to take over schools – podcast

February 2022

  • Trojan Horse illustration

    Observer letters
    Letters: the catastrophic effect of the Trojan Horse Affair

    The podcast about the 2013 allegations that there was an Islamic plot to take over Birmingham state schools was misleading and wrong
  • Sonia Sodha

    The Trojan Horse Affair: how Serial podcast got it so wrong

    Sonia Sodha
    A major series blaming Islamophobia for the 2014 Birmingham schools controversy is one-sided and risks opening old wounds
  • The Nova twins and Saskilla in an episode of the documentary Do Black Lives Still Matter?

    Black Britons in documentary still boxed in by race, report finds

    Race and racism, crime and music prevail in programmes about black people, who still lack editorial control and commissions
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