ROTA Podcast: Talking About Race – Details, episodes & analysis

ROTA are launching a brand new podcast show ‘Talking About Race’.

We will be hosting expert guests from across the anti-racism space to discuss the issues facing Black and Global Majority communities across the UK and beyond.

For our first episode, to be published at 5pm on 9 January 2025 where we will be joined by Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of UK Black Pride, and Alba Kapoor, Head of Policy at the Runnymede Trust, to discuss Black History Month, along with wider issues around the ways in which Black histories are discussed, marginalised, and misrepresented in the UK.

Episode 1 of our new podcast show ‘Talking About Race’ .

Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of UK Black Pride, and Alba Kapoor, Head of Policy at the Runnymede Trust, to discuss Black History Month, along with wider issues around the ways in which Black histories are discussed, marginalised, and misrepresented in the UK.

In future episodes we will be discussing the implications of the second Trump Presidency, the problems faced by our communities in education and employment, and a range of other topical issues, with an exciting line-up of guests from across the voluntary, political, and activist sectors.

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Episode 2 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’ .

Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator.

In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Fizza Qureshi, CEO of Migrants' Rights Network, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, a political campaigner and commentator, and Dr Ariel Breaux Torres, a mental health expert and passionate advocate for race equity and racial justice, to discuss ‘The Second Trump Presidency’.

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Episode 3 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’.

Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator.

In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Jabeer Butt OBE, Chief Executive of Race Equity Foundation, and Nina Kelly, Director of Content & Communications at Reframing Race, to discuss ‘Race Equity Online - Is it Time to Leave Social Media?’.

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Episode 4 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’.

Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator.

In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir, and Sakib Khan. Aisha is an entrepreneur and LGBTQ+ activist, founder of Moonlight Experiences, and a Director at The Common Press, a queer, intersectional bookshop in East London. Sakib is a London Engagement Officer and RacialJustice Network Lead at the LGBT Consortium, a national infrastructure charity.

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Episode 5 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’.

Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator.

In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Lara Parizotto, and Maymuna Osman. Lara is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Migrant Democracy Project, and Maymuna is currently National Organiser with Migrants Organise.

The guests are discussing how narratives on migration have changed, or stayed the same, over the past year.

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Episode 7 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’, hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator.

In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests Dr Anthony Ince and Dr Maya Goodfellow .

D Anthony Ince is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University and a lifelong anti-fascist based in South Bristol.

Dr Maya Goodfellow is a Presidential Fellow in the Department of International Politics at City St. George’s, University of London, and author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats.

The guests discuss the continued anti-migrant protests which have been ongoing in the UK since July. 

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Episode 6 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’, hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator.

In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests Dame Marie Gabriel and Chris Frederick.

Dame Marie has over 20 years of NHS Board experience, and is currently the Chair of the NHS North East London Integrated Care System, Chair of the NHS Race and Health Observatory and an Associate Non-Executive Director for the UK Health Security Agency.

Chris Frederick is a suicide attempt survivor, global citizen, lived experience advisor and, in his own words, mad Star Wars fan. Focusing on the unique needs of Black men experiencing suicidality and mental health challenges in the UK through Project Soul Stride.

The guests discuss one of the most pressing issues that our communities are facing: mental health inequalities. 

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Episode 8 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’, hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator.

In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by Leninna Ofori, housing expert, academic and author. Lennina also sits on the advisory board for our housing project, Brick by Brick.

ROTA launched Brick by Brick to confront racial injustice in housing. The programme centres the voices and experiences of Black and Global Majority communities, who are disproportionately affected by housing inequality.We explore the question what would it mean to truly take racial discrimination in housing seriously not as an add-on, but as a structural issue requiring structural solutions?We discuss the Renters Rights Bill, share practical advice for renters currently experiencing discrimination, and reflect on what must shift next: in policy, in practice, and in power. Like, comment and subscribe.#rentersrights #housingdiscrimination #racialjustice #raceontheagenda