BLACK HISTORY should be taught and thoroughly integrated into the national curriculum in the UK schools, according to Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman.
He was speaking today (18) to Noel Phillips, the North American correspondent for ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
The 86-year-old veteran actor made a statement prior to the release of his new documentary on World War II called ‘761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers’, an all-Black tank regiment.
He gave the following response when asked why he thought that the story of an all-Black tank battalion was not well-known: “Systemic racism… That exists in our country. This is history, let’s not run away from it, let’s embrace it and move on.”
He also went on to say, “I find Black History Month to be just a total insult.
“There is so much more to history than what you can cram into 28 days. If you get into some sort of mindset that teaches our young that there is something wrong about teaching this history, that is a warp.”
Freeman also said that he thinks racism is a persistent problem in America and urged parents to avoid feeling “guilty” about exposing their kids to the unfiltered truth about racism and prejudice.
“LACK OF progress” on improving the lives of disabled persons in Northern Ireland, has raised concerns, amid the collapse of a devolved government at Stormont.
Because Northern Ireland’s devolved government has been dormant for more than a year, plans for a disability forum and a strategy have not progressed.
The ensuing stasis in a range of areas has been highlighted in a joint submission by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, in their role as the Independent Mechanism for NI (IMNI) which monitors human rights, equality, and discrimination related issues.
A new inquiry triggered by the committee on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) made on their recommendations from a previous inquiry into the UK in 2016 last.
Additional IMNI suggestions are given regarding closing the disability employment gap, promoting independent living, providing accessible and reasonably priced accommodation for people with disabilities, among other matters.
Devolution or devolved government in Northern Ireland means that the United Kingdom government has transferred a wide range of powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly. This means that local politicians, instead of MPs in Westminster, make key decisions on how Northern Ireland is governed.
IN ORDER to “protect single-sex spaces,” the government’s Levelling Up initiative disclosed criteria for all new non-residential projects to have separate male and female restrooms on Sunday (13).
The law, lauded as a step to safeguard privacy and dignity, will also be applicable to structures undergoing significant renovations.
Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch said: “It is important that everybody has privacy and dignity when using public facilities. Yet the move towards ‘gender neutral’ toilets has removed this fundamental right for women and girls.”
She added: “These proposals will ensure every new building in England provides separate male and female or unisex facilities, and publish guidance to explain the difference, protecting the dignity, privacy and safety of all.”
As of Wednesday (9), 47 per cent of women in the UK reject gender-neutral toilets, while 47 per cent support both gender-neutral restrooms and separate restrooms for men and women, according to a recent YouGov opinion tracker.
The remaining six per cent are either unsure or just in favour of gender-neutral restrooms.
Gender-neutral restrooms are more strongly supported (51 per cent) by those ages 18 to 24 than they are opposed (34 per cent).
An exemption will be made for facilities that include entire rooms, rather than simply cubicles, that can be secured from the inside and are intended to be used by one person at a time.
Additionally, current regulations mandating that schools offer separate restrooms for boys and girls who are eight years old or older would be strengthened.
THE GENDER Pay Gap Report 2023, created in cooperation with PwC UK, has been made available by WiHTL, a community dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the hospitality, travel, and leisure industries.
The study presents a conflicting image in terms of reducing the gender wage gap, highlighting the necessity of quickening the pace of change.
The gender pay gap has grown the most in the travel industry, where it is the largest of the three sectors, going from 20.4 per cent to 22.4 per cent in the past year.
Even if this gain in the hospitality sector from 4.2 per cent to 5.2 per cent is still relatively modest compared to the market at large.
The gender wage gap in leisure, on the other hand, has been claimed to have decreased from 8.3 per cent to 6.7 per cent.
These numbers demonstrate the difficulty the sector is experiencing because it is evident that significant effort must be done to close the gap.
A thorough grasp of the underlying problems and a solid commitment to bringing about long-lasting, sustainable change is necessary to close the gender pay disparity.
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