A lot done, a lot to do: Our vision for an integrated Britain / Commission for Racial Equality, 19 September 2007
PDF - http://www.cre.gov.uk/downloads/a_lot_done_a_lot_to_do.pdf
UK has no reason to be smug on race relations / Sunday Herald, 23 September 2007
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Joanna Blythman
"IT IS hard to watch the events now unfolding in the small Louisiana town of Jena without being reminded of the eerie lyrics of Strange Fruit, the song immortalised by Billie Holiday in 1939, which condemned American racism by using graphic imagery to describe the lynching of African Americans in the US's reactionary and backward Deep South: "Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze/Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." [...] It is too easy to be smug about the superior state of race relations in the UK. No nooses, thank heavens - but segregation and discrimination prevail"