ARE’s UPLIFT Programme brings together organisations working across communities to support young people and tackle inequality in meaningful ways. As part of the programme, we are shining a light on the alumni organisations involved in the programme's …
Applications for organisational development programme Cohort 2 are open!
Action for Race Equality (ARE) is proud to announce that we are recruiting for the second year of the UPLIFT Programme, a 12-month initiative designed to strengthen the capacity and sustainability of Black, Asian, and Mixed …
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Racial Disparities Persist in Strip Searches and Use of Force Against Children
New research from the Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, reveals that while strip searches of children are falling overall, Black children remain disproportionately overrepresented and face worse outcomes in other police tactics, …
ARE statement on Golders Green terror attack
Following a knife attack in Golders Green on two Jewish men, Action for Race Equality is saddened and horrified by the news. Action for Race Equality are horrified and saddened by the violent attack that took place yesterday in …
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A Connected Collective
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. Estimated read time: 4 minutes There is an inherent tension …
A Numbers Game: Minority and Majority
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. Estimated read time: 5 minutes Several of the terms discussed in …
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“White-Assumed”: The Scales of Colourism
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. Estimated read time: 4 minutes Colorism is a term …
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A Question of Colour
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. CONTENT NOTE: This blog explores racial terms which some may find …
On Britishness
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. Estimated read time: 5 minutes Questions of British identity …
A Hostile Media Landscape
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. Estimated read time: 3 minutes The media landscape plays a central …
Diversity is a euphemism
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. Estimated read time: 4 minutes In the context of a crackdown …
Terminology as a tool
This blog is part of Action for Race Equality’s Racial Terminology Project series, exploring how racial terminology is used, understood and debated across the UK today. Estimated read time: 4 minutes Why focus on …
ARE statement on the Government’s ethnicity and disability pay gap consultation
Following the Government's recent announcement, ARE are looking forward to the legislation now going through Parliament The Government recently published its response to their ethnicity and disability pay gap consultation. ARE welcomes the …
Where Newham leads, the UK must follow
ARE Chief Executive Jeremy Crook, OBE, discusses a recent report commissioned by Newham Council on belonging in a week that the Government promotes its social cohesion initiative. It was an honour serving on the Independent Commission on …
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The Doomsday Clock: Why racism is moving us closer to Midnight?
Every New Year I keep an eye on the Doomsday Clock by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 2026 Doomsday Clock Statement - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin was set up in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the …
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