Patrick Vernon

Black Powerlist 2021

The Powerlist 2021 is published by Powerful Media. Its sponsors include PwC, Linklaters, Refinitiv, the Executive Leadership Council, Herman Miller and Facebook. Dr Heather Melville, OBE, PwC, Director of People Networks & Client Relationship Programmes said: “At PwC we’re proud to be sponsoring The Powerlist for the second year running, celebrating black excellence across so […]

The Independent: Police treating vandalism of Black Lives Matter exhibition as ‘racially aggravated hate crime’

NEWS: Hitchin’s Great Black Britons posters to be replaced after campaign’s co-founder intervenes

After posters that celebrate the contribution of Black British people to the United Kingdom’s history were vandalised in Hitchin last month, the co-founder of the campaign has confirmed replacement posters will be put up. The posters were originally placed by Christchurch in Bedford Road, by local resident Edward Selby, who said his only aim was […]

EVENT: 25th November 2020, Diversity UK Paul Stephenson Lecture 2020

The Diversity UK Paul Stephenson Lecture on race equality will be held online on 25th November 2020 at 6.00pm with Dr Patrick Vernon OBE. The year 2020 has been marred by tragic events such the death of George Floyd in the USA and the impact of COVID-19 and inequalities on the BAME community in Britain […]