Black and ethnic minority people could feature on British money for first time under plan for coins featuring historical figures including Gurkha heroes and wartime nurse Chancellor Rishi Sunak considering plans Treasury minister tells the Telegraph British-Jamaican Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole one name being considered Plans have been submitted to Royal Mint by The Bank … Read more
More than two-thirds of Britons are worried that minority of political activists have too much say over nation’s monuments, poll finds A huge 80 per cent of those questioned think that Churchill’s statue should stay The polling also showed that 69 per cent of people are proud of the UK’s history Concerns children aren’t being … Read more
Eight minority corrections officers in Minnesota filed discrimination charges with the state Department of Human Rights saying that they were barred from guarding or making contact Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer charged with murdering George Floyd. Chauvin, 44, was booked at the Ramsey County Jail in St. Paul, Minnesota, the same day he was … Read more
Doctors plea to give high-risk ethnic minority health workers PPE at all times amid alarming Covid-19 death rates among black and Asian NHS staff BIDA says staff must be protected, even when treating non-coronavirus patients Britons of black African heritage are three-and-a-half times more likely to die NHS England chief has since written to all trusts … Read more
A senior NHS nurse has claimed that healthcare professionals from Black Asian and Ethnic Minority groups (BAME) are having to work on coronavirus wards more than their white colleagues. It comes as the British Medical Association launched an inquiry into why people from BAME backgrounds are more susceptible to such respiratory conditions. Carol Cooper, who … Read more