Chuka Umunna

New Streatham MP Chuka Umunna has received praise for asking a series of questions in Parliament about Nigeria.

Reverend Wale Hudson-Roberts of the African Development Forum (ADF) has commended Umumma for 'putting Nigeria on the map in Westminster'. He says he is looking to other African heritage MPs to also raise concerns about UK policy on Africa.

Women must wait another 33 years for pay equality
Women in Scotland will have to wait another 33 years before they are paid the same as men, a study has suggested.

Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide
The authors of a new book, Half the Sky, say the slavery and abuse of women is the greatest moral outrage of our century.

The transformation of Latin America is a global advance
The radical tide is about to be put to the test in Brazil and Venezuela. If support holds, it will have lessons for all of us.

Queen of US shock jocks quits the airwaves after damaging race row
Dr Schlessinger quits the airwaves amid controversy over her repeated use of the word "n*****" during an episode of her three-hour-long programme.

Merlene Carrington JP (left) & Somali Family Support Group members

Operation Black Vote has organised a free event to encourage more members of the Somali community to consider becoming magistrates.

Cameron's new housing plan

The Prime Minister's proposals to reform council housing tenure, which would end contracts that give families a "home for life" and review tenancies every five years, are likely to disproportionately affect impoverished BME communities.

Fighting racial injustice

As many of you know, OBV were the victims of a smear campaign by the website Harry’s Place (HP). Their suggestion was that we were either anti-Semite or we were somehow anti-Semite apologists, for highlighting and promoting a rally in protest against a heavily armed police raid on a mosque run by the Nation of Islam (NOI) UK.

For Muslims around the world today is the start of the holy month of Ramadan. A time of the year in which Muslims, through fasting from sun up to sun down, engage in a month-long process of introspection, repentance, and self-renewal.

Behind the spectacle that is the show-trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor in The Hague, on charges of genocide, is the hidden tragedy of African countries torn apart by brutal civil conflict for the continent’s mineral wealth.