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Black Lives Matter protesters in Victoria Park in Smethwick

Sikh Langar meets Black Lives Matter for powerful anti-racism rally in Smethwick

Staff ReporterJuly 20, 2020July 20, 202001 mins

The Sikh tradition of Langar was embraced at a Black Lives Matter protest in Sandwell on Saturday, as residents came together to rally against racism and to defend a local elderly woman from threats of deportation. Billed as Sandwell’s sixth Black Lives Matter protest in recent weeks, over 50 people gathered in Victoria Park to voice their solidarity with the…

Hundreds march in Birmingham against Chechnya gay murders

Staff ReporterApril 22, 2017April 25, 201701 mins

Around 200 of protesters have marched through the streets of Birmingham city centre today in solidarity with LGBT individuals in Chechnya, who have been reportedly rounded up by Government officials and persecuted in the Eastern European country. Standing in support of the victims of what has been described as State brutality, campaigners marched from the LGBT…