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Labour MP Naz Shah says the criteria for the roll-out of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab favours affluent areas.
Award-winning actor, writer and director Fraser Ayres founded The TriForce Creative Network in 2003 to promote equal opportunity in the entertainment industry. In a report launched by Creative Diversity Network they found that the television industry faced challenges off-screen with only 2% of TV Writers, 3% Executives and 5% of Series Producers from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. The film and television veteran says that for equitable change the industry needs fresh blood and opportunity.
Professor Wei Shen Lim said prioritising Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups was "really, really important".
Ex-Tory adviser Jamie Njoku-Goodwin tells HuffPost UK he was often confused with a mixed-race journalist and called for better representation in politics.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence has called for the government to make changes in workplaces, public health and housing.
Reports from Public Health England and Independent Sage need to be acted on, say critics as fears grow over surge in coronavirus cases.
The BAME community has been disproportionately affected by coronavirus. This is something Hesketh Benoit experienced first hand. He has lost 37 friends to coronavirus since March. Nearly all were Black. He is now calling on the government to respond to the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on the BAME community.
Hesketh Benoit's devastating losses made him realise Covid was disproportionately affecting Black people. Now he wants the government to account for its slow response.
New director general Tim Davie says corporation "must do better on diversity".
Of the 92 daily coronavirus briefings that took place at the pandemic's peak, not one Black person was seen behind the Downing Street podiums.