Black Lives Matter: Activism and allyship
It is okay to feel overwhelmed right now. It’s been little over a week since the footage of George Floyd being murdered in broad daylight by four police officers was…
The Markle debacle: Are the British media racist?
Becca Bashford, News Editor, discusses the British press' treatment of Meghan Markle.
Decolonise Sussex
Decolonise Sussex is a student-led campaign dedicated to challenging the legacies of racism, imperialism and colonialism within all spheres of the university, both inside and outside the classroom. We aim…
Playing with fire…but who gets burned?
While up to 30,000 people attended and enjoyed Lewes Bonfire celebrations on the 5th of November, there was a marked lack of public criticism of the deeply racist ‘traditions’ that…
BAME Representation: Darren Chetty and Lacking Representation in Literature
I came across Darren Chetty, a teacher and author based in London, when reading the 2016 Readers Choice Award winner The Good Immigrant. Compiled of a selection of essays and…
Dear white liberal students present at the UK BLM talk,
It was such an encouragement to see so many of you at the UK Black Lives Matter talk held on campus on 7th November, 2017. It suggested to me that…
Why The Academy is Wrong to Forgive Mel Gibson
Make no mistake; Mel Gibson’s Best Director nomination for Hacksaw Ridge is the academy’s way of extending an olive branch embracing him back into the community after his fall from…
Should controversial personalities be muted by petitions? A lesson for Trump and Roosh V
Over the past few years online petitions have gained great popularity within the UK. The scheme of collecting signatures in order to achieve change and justice has proven successful on…
Cecil Rhodes: Erase history or contextualise it?
Last week Oriel College at the University of Oxford released a statement asserting that the statue of politician, colonialist and benefactor Cecil Rhodes will remain on the building’s high street…
The fallacy of race and the reality of racism at British universities
Luqman Onikosi A case for why Sussex University and its Union needs to de-colonise whiteness in their institutions During Black History Month 2015 at Sussex Dr. Alana Lentin delivered a…
Brighton and Hove travellers face eviction and growing stigma
The travelling community has received a lot of media attention over the last 18 months. The Brighton and Hove Green Party have had to take various forms of action to…
Racism in higher education
Race and racism, diversity and equal opportunities are words that are bandied around a lot in higher education and a recent study has bought them again to the fore. The…
Double standards and legitimate criticism
Should there be freedom to criticise religion or does doing so automatically make it racism? Good question. Most of us are aware that people are sensitive to religious criticism to…