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FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Three - The Fight For Race Equality in the UK

Reasons Revisited

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Rock Against Race Racism - The Killing of Stephen Lawrence

The murder of stephen lawrence is one of the most significant events in modern history. The campaign for justice led by his mother, doreen and his father, nevill was a generation earlier than many thought. It took four years or six years for the country to wake up to what had happened. But why change happened was the breath of coalition that was built around that injustice. We're now having a conversation about racism in terms of interpersonal interaction. And we were to wait until the murder ofstephen lawrence became widely accepted as an everyday criminal experience before we could talk about it with any seriousness. So if you have a new conversation about raceism all of england is tuned

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