UK BAME History Resources
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Education Resources: UK Black History Resources
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Education Resources: UK Black History Resources
Black folks and people of color are out making culture, like we always have been since times immemorial. But white supremacist patriarchal capitalism has upgraded itself and once again our cultural production is capitalised on, while our bodies, well-being and communities are still expendable.
Britain ranks alongside Slovakia and the Czech Republic in gender equality index as having made no progress in range of fields.
Ethnic minorities and LGBT community continue suffer at the hands of ‘inclusion crisis’; meanwhile only 3% of film directors are women, with a third of female characters shown with ‘partial or full nudity’.
Just under a third of people in Britain are excluded from mainstream society because they cannot afford to join in cultural activities such as going to the cinema, taking a holiday or buying consumer goods.
In 2015 Cinema For All started our Reaching Communities project and began collaborating with disadvantaged and marginalised communities all over the UK to provided them with all the training, support and assistance they needed to establish their own community cinemas and film screenings.
Black and minority ethnic people make up 17% of English arts workforce and disabled people account for 4%, report finds.
Today Directors UK releases its new report looking at the under-representation and under-employment of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) directors: UK Television: Adjusting the Colour Balance. Our report reveals the shocking statistic that only 1.5% of UK television is made by a BAME director.
Writers’ Guild says number of women in film and TV has ‘flatlined’ and urges commissioners to ‘let women tell stories’.
How many people in the UK are gay, lesbian or bisexual? The Office for National Statistics reckons it’s 1.5% while the Kinsey report says it’s 10%. Who’s right?