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Birmingham City Council has issued an apology after a street art tribute to George Floyd was removed hours after being painted in Kings Heath by a Birmingham artist. Mohammed Ali was deeply “saddneed and disturbed” when he discovered his street art tribute to George Floyd had been mysteriously removed. After investigating the issue he found…
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, who was held prisoner by the US government in an internment facility in Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for nearly three years, has been invited to appear on reality TV show Big Brother. Yes, really. However, the Birmingham activist and author – who was released…
A public meeting calling for Donald Trump’s UK state visit to be cancelled is to take place in Birmingham next month. Expected to be attended by high profile activists, organisers of the event are demanding that the US President’s invitation to an audience with the British royal family be revoked.
The city’s award-winning Birmingham International Film Society (BIFS) is set to host its first ever Human Rights Film Festival, next month. Highlighting an array of film productions which have increasingly been focused on human rights issues, the Festival kicks off at 6.30pm on Tuesday 6 September at the Birmingham Library Theatre, with a reception and…