All news by author: Melissa Sigodo

A man says he was 'brought to tears' as he filmed officers from Metropolitan Police handcuff a mum on suspicion of dodging a bus fare while her 'screaming' son watched on

People from the Caribbean made Britain what it is today but their contribution has been forgotten and many continue still face the same hostility they did decades ago

The Year 9 pupil was searching in his backpack when he found pieces of paper with racial slurs stuffed into an outside pocket

The actor says one in four Black men are at risk of the disease, which kills 12,000 men a year, but fewer people know that your chances of getting it are markedly higher if your father or brother has had it

Amazon worker Upale Kaloshi, 21, from Deptford, south east London, “never missed a day of work” before disappearing on May 21 - with police now confirming a body has been found

UK doctor Mustafa Al Hassan, from Southampton, is pleading for the UK government to allow his 65-year-old mum to come to the country after fleeing the crisis in Sudan

Pearl Unu-Arubi was taken to the hospital when she stopped breathing for eight minutes on March 20, 2023. After spending 10 days in critical condition, the 12-year-old sadly died

Anugrah Abraham worked at Halifax Police station in West Yorkshire, as part of a three-year apprenticeship degree at Leeds Trinity University before he disappeared on March 3

A date for the funeral of Peter Brown, one of the RAF's WW2 veterans who died alone has now been set for next month after the event became 'inundated' with requests to attend following an appeal for mourners

Zakir Malik received an award for ‘saving’ the life of a policeman who was brutally attacked with broken glass and stabbed in the head and neck

Healthcare worker Tanya Hall claims the state of her home in Southall, west London, has caused her panic attacks and she fears for the health of her two children as well

A heartbreaking appeal has been launched to find mourners to attend the funeral of Peter Brown - one of the 'last black' WW2 heroes who died alone in his flat

A former Met Police Superintendent suing the force over ‘racist and sexist abuse’ is calling for the Commissioner to resign following his refusal to use the term institutional racism despite damning Casey report

A Hendon schoolgirl says she was attacked by a group of boys who had sent her racist threats in the past, while her older sister claims school staff failed to take care of the 14-year-old

Jaylen, 11, has decided to chop off his long locks for charity after his fellow students allegedly bullied him for it while his mum claims his school has a "discriminatory" hairstyle policy

Damning research conducted by the charity - Missing People suggests that cases involving Black children who have disappeared are less likely to be solved by police

Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice (CBFFJ), The Runnymede Trust and 25 other civil society organisations have written to Baroness Hallett, chair of the Covid Inquiry, calling for structural racism to be explicitly examined in the Covid inquiry

In a report called I Can’t Breathe: Race, Death and British Policing, campaign group Inquest revealed that black people were seven times more likely to die following police restraint

A fund is being raised to provide mental health support to the 15-year-old girl who was beaten what police are investigating as an allegedly racially-motivated attack outside Thomas Knyvett school in Ashford, Surrey

Police are desperately appealing to find a 13-year-old girl who has been missing for five days and was last seen on February 9, 2023 in Walworth, London

Civil rights veteran Reverend Al Sharpton is currently visiting the UK and has warned that police brutality incidents such as the recent killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis officers could happen in the UK without reforms

Noel Phillips who was robbed, spat on and racially assaulted in September 2022 says ‘tougher sentences’ are needed after his attacker avoided jail

A mum-of-three claims that her son had to have life-saving surgery after he developed a flesh-eating disease from a rat and flea infestation that's has taken over her garden

A police watchdog investigator looking into the stop and search of athletes Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos says she quit her role over fears the inquiry was being "watered down."

In December 2020, a two-year-old boy died after he was left struggling to breathe when his throat became swollen and his lungs filled with poisonous mould but so many children are still living in the same conditions