Creative Equity Toolkit

What white people can do to move race conversations forward

Dr. Caprice Hollins explains why we often fail to have productive conversations about race, race relations, and racism in this country. Her talk sheds light on why People of Color and White people take different approaches to these conversations and what White people can do to move race conversations forward.

When is it OK for white people to ask about other people’s ethnicity?

In this advice column, writer Sisonke Msimang explores the complexities of white curiosity about race and ethnicity. With insights from Dr Kathomi Gatwiri, she explains that while curiosity itself isn’t wrong, repeated questions about someone’s background—especially based on appearance—can be exhausting and reductive. Instead of focusing on difference, Msimang encourages building genuine relationships and seeking points of connection before asking personal questions about heritage.

When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity?

An article looking at the compensation paid to former slave owners by British taxpayers until 2015 - a sum equivalent to £300 billion.

'After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation – but every penny of it went to slave owners, and nothing to those they enslaved. We must stop overlooking the brutality of British history.'

While the US debate heats up, why won’t the UK even talk about reparations for slavery?

A look at the reparations debate in Britain:

'...politicians dismiss the significance of the slave trade without so much of a wave of the hand, or repeat the tired inaccuracy that it all happened far too long ago to worry about now. This despite the claims of Brexit supporters that the Commonwealth might play a major part in our international trade strategy after we leave the European Union.'