The 2013 trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin is well-known as the court case that sparked the...

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Continuing our series of posts related to the ' Accent Bias in Britain ' project, in this blog post we discuss some findings from ou...

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Picture this: it’s Christmas day, you’re overloaded with turkey, surrounded by the remnants of wrapping paper and you’ve just settled down...

Content note: this article contains some references to homophobia. No one could argue that LGBT rights in the UK have not made progres...

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It’s probably not something you even think about. Someone asks you to pass salt or pepper at dinner, they say “thanks!” Someone is raising...