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Nature & Environment
Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Professor Wangari Maathai was an environmentalist and the first female African Nobel Peace Prize winner. Yoseph Araya explores her contribution to the environment and what that meant to be a woman in this field of work.
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History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga
Queen Nzinga managed to call a halt to Portuguese slave raids in her kingdom through clever tactics. Read about her legacy in this article...
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Education & Development
How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
There is still much work to do to address institutional, structural and systemic racism directly. What is being done now? What can be done moving forward?
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Education & Development
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Are racist actions by a police officer individual misconduct or a systemic failure? This article explores perspectives on organisational culture and individual action.
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Education & Development
How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
How is racism, bias and discrimination being tackled in policing? This article explores responses and approaches to these issues by police forces, the community, and at governmental levels.
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Education & Development
What is Critical Race Theory?
What is Critical Race Theory and how could it be used to change structures and processes that sustain institutional and individual racism?
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Education & Development
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Looking at institutional racism, this article explores how this affects the criminal justice system and policing.
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Education & Development
Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
How does policing in the US and the UK operate and how does this feed into debates around policing and racism?
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Education & Development
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
This collection provides overview and historical context of (some of) the differences and similarities in policing in the USA and UK, particularly those related to race and systemic and institutional racism, and what’s being done about racism in the police.
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History & The Arts
Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes
How did the West African artworks known as the Benin Bronzes end up in European museums? And why does it matter?
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History & The Arts
Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
Historically, there was a tendency to ascribe lesbianism to BAME women and ‘other’ nations. Anita Pilgrim draws on some examples in this article...
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Education & Development
Free online Chinese courses
Discover these free Chinese courses on OpenLearn.