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Somali-born British Olympic boxer Ramla Ali is the subject of a new biopic, In the Shadows, directed by Anthony Wonke and starring Top Boy actor Jasmine Jobson, which follows her journey from fleeing the Somali civil war to the Tokyo Olympics.
Kyler Rattray, 21, has denied the racist murder of scientist Dr Fortune Gomo, who was allegedly repeatedly struck with a knife in Dundee last year. A trial date has been set for 2028.
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A 36-year-old man has been arrested six years after the double murder of Junior Ajose, 36, and Cheriff Tall, 21, who were shot dead at a lockdown party.
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Damilola Taylor's brother says action on knife crime is needed more than ever, as a new BBC documentary retells the story of the boy's killing in Peckham 26 years on.
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A woman working as a council intervention worker was racially abused by two boys in April 2024 and has been awarded £15,000.
Read full story ↗Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has urged Africa, the Caribbean and the worldwide African diaspora to organise their collective power, warning others will continue capturing the value of African resources, labour and talent.
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A public history project, Global Threads, has studied links between the struggles of 19th-century Manchester cotton workers at the 1819 Peterloo massacre and the exploitation of Africans enslaved in the Caribbean. The research cites Black abolitionist Robert Wedderburn, who argued both groups were exploited by the same forces.
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Guardian review of In the Shadows, a biopic of British-Somali boxer Ramla Ali, who came to the UK as a refugee from the Somali civil war and boxed for Somalia at the 2021 Olympics. Jasmine Jobson stars, with Finn Cole and Gershwyn Eustache Jr in supporting roles.
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Dr Vincent Brown, accused of offences linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, is to face trial in the UK. He is alleged to have been a "leader" or "supervisor" of violent acts carried out by others in the genocide's early days.
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Abena Oppong-Asare, Labour chair of the Commons housing committee, is urging the chancellor to bring forward billions from the £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme, after housing associations said they could build 41,000 more homes in 10 years.
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Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won the Holborn and St Pancras byelection with 12,292 votes (45%), beating Green party leader Zack Polanski on 8,928 votes (33%). The byelection followed former prime minister Keir Starmer's resignation from the seat in September.
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Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won the Holborn and St Pancras byelection with just over 45% of the vote, beating Green leader Zack Polanski into second place. The result is seen as a relief for both main contenders.
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An inquest heard details of the final days of three sisters, Jane Adetoro and Christina and Rebecca Walters, who lived together in west London and whose bodies were recovered from the sea in Brighton in May. Why they ended their lives may never be known.
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An inquest found that three sisters, Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters, who lived in London, took their own lives after drowning in the sea off Brighton in May.
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A coroner ruled that three sisters from London — Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walters, 32, and Rebecca Walters, 31 — who drowned off Brighton on 13 May took their own lives. They had visited their late mother's former home shortly before their deaths.
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At the Conservative party conference, leader Kemi Badenoch was front and centre, telling GB News the party has a new captain, coach and owner — "all me". Some in the party worry about becoming a one-woman operation, while others say they are lucky to have her.
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The Guardian's Long Wave newsletter explores how Black communities worldwide use large, culturally specific vocabularies to describe race and complexion, citing terms such as 'green', 'yellow', 'blue' and 'wheat' used by tribes in parts of Sudan.
Read full story ↗The Sandals Foundation Island Challenge raised its £100,000 ($21 million) target to provide medical equipment for the paediatric and neonatal unit at Falmouth Public General Hospital in Jamaica. The four-day endurance event involved around 30 UK participants and 16 local challengers, concluding at Clifton Mount in the Blue Mountains.
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A Guardian comment piece argues that the catch-all label 'Afrobeats' flattens the diversity of African music, citing Tyla's 2024 MTV VMA win for amapiano hit 'Water' and objections from artists including Tems, Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido.
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