Tag: blacklivesmatter uk

February 2021: The Voice – Policing isn’t working for us

Join us as we speak to an expert panel about policing in the black community.

This event provides an opportunity to examine the impact and role of policing in the black community, plus discuss some of the reforms that may help improve the situation.

Please register for the event here

Event Flyer

Speakers will include:

1) Dr. Leroy Logan MBE; Former Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police; Author of ‘Closing Ranks, My Life as a Cop

2) Dr. Adam Elliott-Cooper, BLM UK

3) Ms. Temi Mwale, Founding Director of The 4Front Project

4) Mr. Lee Lawrence, Chair of the Cherry Groce Foundation and Author of ‘The Louder I will Sing’

January 2021: #Justice4Mohamud Event

The Voice Interview
Photo credit: Lorenzo Garrido


Can the police be reformed?


From Mohamud, to @freesiyanda, to Stephen Lawrence, to George Floyd, to #EndSARS, and to the countless more innocent Black lives, the police have continuously shown themselves to be institutionally racist, violent, and ineffective.


Until now, the mainstream argument in response to blatant police racism has been reform. More body cams, more unconscious bias training – but does this actually work? Year after year of more funding, more training, the disproportionate levels of stop and searches, tasering, and deaths in custody remain. Do we then need a more radical solution? Do we need to defund and abolish the police?

Can the police be reformed? Event poster

December 2017: Consented UK Schools Project

UKBLM members have been running sessions on race and colonialism in schools across London. Students linked issues of race today to the colonial period and understood race as a colonial construct, as well as seeing it’s relationship with capitalism. You can check out more about these projects on the Consented Instagram page.

February 2017: Actions and Reactions

Public Calling: UKBLM’s Lisa Robinson – #Shutdown: Black Lives Matter-UK Actions and Reactions. UKBLM’s Lisa Robinson talks about Black Lives Matter and the shutdown actions in the UK.

August 5th 2016 #Shutdown of M4, A45 & Notts City Centre

UK Black Lives Matter activists blocked off the M4 towards Heathrow airport, A45 approach to Birmingham City Airport and the tram routes in Nottingham city centre. This was to protest at deaths in police custody and the racist policing of borders. Learn more about the shutdown here.