If this is how the party deals with its own MP, how will it treat our communities once it’s in power, asks Maurice Mcleod, a Labour councillor and anti-racism activist

Excluding potential candidates before members have a say is a mistake – if Labour truly wants to gain power, it needs grassroots support, says Maurice Mcleod, director of Media Diversified

Wandsworth council in London is the latest to turn BHM into a broader multicultural event. Maurice Mcleod, Linda Bellos and Chanté Joseph discuss this decision

The tragedy motivated me to become a councillor, yet my Tory counterparts are still failing to listen, says Labour’s Maurice Mcleod

Whether it’s his choice of tattoo or the variation in his spending, the message to the England footballer is clear: know your place, writes Media Diversified director Maurice Mcleod

Was this the address of a prime minister-in-waiting? Guardian writers respond to the most eagerly anticipated leader’s speech in years

Maurice Mcleod, vice-chair of Race on the Agenda, says we must tackle underlying racial discrimination

While the Tories are doing their best to keep the prime minister away from real people and tough questions, the Labour leader is happiest on the campaign trail

Chelsea Cameron, an 18-year-old head girl from Dundee, shared a thank you letter that she had sent to her parents. We asked writers to do the same

If carnival’s crime rate were the same as Glastonbury’s we’d expect 750 arrests, not 454. No other event suffers this kind of biased media coverage

Seeing a line of grinning white Hollywood faces makes it harder to break the debate down into one about individual omissions

The UK got this thoughtful, un-cliched look at race and class six years before Americans saw Kirk and Uhura forced together by alien sex perverts in Star Trek