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Ed Vaizey responds to British East Asian Artists open letter on cultural inclusion

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Ed Vaizey responds to British East Asian Artists open letter. The BEAA writes: Some of you may have seen yesterday an open letter from British East Asian Artists (BEAA) to the Minister For Culture, Ed Vaizey. The letter was in response to Mr. Vaizey’s recent roundtable discussions with leading black actors and industry heads about […]

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British East Asian Artists open letter to Ed Vaizey and broadcaster on racial exclusion in the culture

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An open letter to Ed Vaizey and heads of broadcasting from the British East Asian Artists group. We read with interest that the UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, The Right Honourable Mr. Ed Vaizey, has expressed concern about the number of black actors who are abandoning Britain for America because of lack

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Paul Robeson on Resonance FM 5.30 Tues, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge

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MADAM MIAOW’S CULTURE LOUNGE 6/8News, music and poetryRESONANCE 104.4FMPresented by Anna Chen5.30-6.30pm Tuesday 19th Novemberhttp://resonancefm.com/listenhttps://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/sets/madam-miaow-says PAUL ROBESON, MEET ANNA MAY WONGGuests: Tayo Aluko and Dr Diana Yeh. With Charles Shaar Murray. In this Tuesday’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on Resonance FM, the world’s first internationally renowned African American singing star Paul Robeson and the Hollywood

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London Chinatown strike Tuesday: protest against UK Border Agency fishing raids

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British residents have been sent texts by the UK Border Agency telling them to “go home”. Two of them, Bobby Chan, a legal advisor for the Chinese community, and Suresh Grover of The Monitoring Group who was prominent in seeking justice in the Stephen Lawrence murder case, have received the threatening messages and we wonder

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Edinburgh Fringe greenlights yellowface and BLACKFACE

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Alarming news emerges from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: not only yellowface but now BLACKFACE is okay in its theatres, marking a throwback to majorly less enlightened times. Three young east Asian women, Julie Cheung-Inhin, Emily Siu-see Hung and Anh Chu, were put through the grinder this week, when they went to see Beijing Cake, a

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Ethnically cleansing working class history: my Guardian article

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Photo: Great Western Hospital workers have been on strike against Carillion for a year. My article in the Guardian today People of colour like me have been painted out of working-class history It’s shocking how even voices on the left mythologise the history of Britain’s labour movement as an all-white affair Black people have lived

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