race and racism

Image of Monica Wat performing at MOON FEST in September 2022 (credit: Peter Wan)

Voices

How starting an arts festival helped me find community in Bristol

Grassroots groups have birthed a movement that celebrates and represents people from East and South East Asian communities. It has unleashed a ‘warm, communitarian energy’, writes the co-founder of MOON FEST, which takes place this weekend at the Trinity Centre.

Monica Wat

Cable Community News

Illustration showing need for more diversity in the media (credit: @laurence_ware_design)

We’re working to diversify the Cable team. Let’s start with our freelancer base

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Features

‘I am the only artist I know with this niche’: the platform supporting Bristol’s Asian creatives

Harri Knight-Davis
Harri Knight-Davis
Illustration showing Julz Davis

Interviews

Julz Davis: checking in on Martin Luther King’s dream

Campaigner Julz Davis speaks to the Cable about his Race for Power project to improve racial equity in Bristol, the UK's seventh most unequal city.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
Image of actor Paterson Joseph in Turning Point, a four-part video installation by Tony T (credit: Sweet Patootie)

Features

‘Ordinary people do extraordinary things’: exploring Caribbean history with director Tony T

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Reports

‘We had to fight so hard to get here’, says aunt of boy struck with paddle as attacker convicted 

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

‘This is a film about justice.’ The long-awaited I am Judah documentary premieres in Bristol

The 'I am Judah' documentary depicting the brutal tasering by the police of community elder Ras Judah premiered this week and raises ongoing concerns with the racist policing of Bristol’s Afro-Caribbean communities.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Reports

‘I’m not taking any more asylum seekers’: Stagecoach ‘urgently’ investigating discrimination claims

Asylum seekers who are being temporarily housed at a remote Holiday Inn near Bristol Airport have complained of racial discrimination at the hands of bus drivers on the one route connecting them to the city.

Joe Skirkowski

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with cricketing legend David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, the first Black president of a county club who’s had bananas thrown at him on the field

Fast bowls, nightclubs and bodybuilding – Syd Lawrence is an outspoken local sporting icon who's been around the block in Bristol.

Aphra Evans Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
Aphra Evans, Neil Maggs and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Henrietta Lacks by Daniel Edmund

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

Tom Brothwell Marcus Smith
Tom Brothwell and Marcus Smith

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’, and why teachers may be on the picket lines soon, with educator Lana Crosbie

Lana Crosbie is a senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner with over 20 years’ experience teaching in schools.

Aphra Evans Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
Aphra Evans, Neil Maggs and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Features

Sound of the South Asian underground

After the explosion of the South Asian music scene in recent years, the Cable sits down with the Bristol-born Pakistani siblings who are bringing representation, raves and revival to Bristol.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
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