Welcome to our blog, Race Matters, where you can read the latest content on all matters to do with race. Race Matters aims to bring new perspectives to matters of racial (in)justice, including topics ...

Misogynoir - where racism and sexism intersect - continues to hinder Black women's professional advancement, wellbeing, and sense of belonging in the workplace. "I feel as though Black women are ...

Six months on from riots where asylum accommodation, mosques and minority-owned businesses were systematically attacked by groups of far right supporters, a new Runnymede Trust report highlights the ...

Current approach to tackling antisemitism not working, our report with the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism shows. Antisemitism is deeply embedded into our common culture; it exists as ...

The racist riots of summer 2024 were the clear outcome of intensifying Islamophobia in the UK. With direct attacks on Muslims and mosques, this explosion of violence is linked to the ways that UK ...

A joint submission from the Runnymede Trust and Amnesty International UK to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s 113th Session, has found that government legislation and ...

Runnymede Trust analysis of new Home Office strip search data shows that Black people are disproportionately strip searched by nearly all police forces in England and Wales. Black children are 6.5 ...

Art is one of the only subjects that explicitly offers a space for personal exploration, where students are encouraged to respond to the world and their place within it. Art lessons are therefore a ...

The run-up to the 2024 general election will be riddled with political debate on immigration, based on racialised ideas of who is welcome and who belongs. When people are asked what matters to them ...

More than 4.2 million children in the UK are growing up in poverty, a number that has been rising over the last decade and is forecast to grow even further. Failure to disrupt and reverse this trend ...

The 2023 Autumn Statement, announced on 22 November, fails to address the deepening inequalities faced by communities of colour, who have already been hit first and hardest by the cost of living ...

Black and minority ethnic people are disproportionately falling faster and further below the poverty line amidst the cost of living crisis. Falling Faster shows that Black and minority ethnic people ...