Sonia Boyce to receive honoury doctorate

Birmingham City University bestows highest honour upon influential artist Sonia Boyce

Respected British artist Sonia Boyce OBE, whose work has been a regular fixture at Birmingham art galleries, will receive an Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham City University. Boyce, who has been practising art for around forty years, is being recognised for her influential contributions to the Black British art movement and her exploration of race, gender, and…

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Filmmaker Sheikh Shahnawaz working with Migrant Voice members in Wolverhampton

Migrant media empowerment programme to launch in Birmingham

Members from migrant communities are being invited to take part in a media empowerment course to help them achieve better representation in local media. Working closely with local journalists and editors, West Midlands residents from migrant backgrounds can learn about how journalism works, what makes a good community story and how to pitch these stories…

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FILE IMAGE: Police walking patrolling Green Lane Masjid Mosque

West Midlands Police officer fined £200 for racist conduct towards female officer

A West Midlands Police officer who made inappropriate, discriminatory and racist comments towards a female colleague last December has been found guilty and fined for his disgraceful conduct. The matter was subject to a criminal investigation which resulted in PC Joe Courtney being charged with two counts of committing a racially aggravated public order offence.

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Director of Birmingham Opera Company dies

Birmingham Opera Company director Graham Vick dies from COVID complications

The opera world has been devastated after news broke about the death of pioneering director Sir Graham Vick who died from COVID-19 complications on Saturday 17th July. The 67-year-old artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company tragically died of complications arising from COVID-19. The company announced he had been in hospital since June after testing positive…

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West Mids mayor Andy Street pledges to adopt new boardroom racial equality scheme

West Midlands mayor Andy Street has pledged to adopt a new scheme tackling boardroom inequality, following the decision by Birmingham City Council to embrace the same initiative to tackle racial prejudice in the workplace. The new scheme – named the RACE code – aims to encourage race equality in the boardroom and is being piloted by the West Midlands…

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Thousands march in Birmingham in act of solidarity for police brutality victim George Floyd

Birmingham city centre was packed with thousands of ‘Black Lives Matter’ protestors on Thursday afternoon to show solidarity for George Floyd, who died as a result of US police brutality on May 25 in Minnesota. The shocking death of the black victim, who kept pleading ‘I can’t breathe’ as a white officer pressed his knee…

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