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May 21, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Aina KhanPublished |Aina Khan

This article contains references to racialised language that some readers may find distressing. On November 11, 37-year-old teacher Marieha Hussain joined thousands of pro-Palestine protesters in London to call for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza. During the rally, she raised her placard depicting the faces of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, alongside coconuts under a tree on a beach.

Mar 15, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Aina KhanPublished |Aina Khan

London, United Kingdom – Natasha Shotunde, a British barrister, was born two years after Diane Abbott was elected as the first Black female member of parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987. It is a seat the 70-year-old, affectionally called “Auntie Di” in the Black British community, still holds today.

Dec 31, 2023 | aljazeera.com | Aina Khan |Aina KhanPublished

Luton, United Kingdom — At exactly 11am on a Saturday in mid-November, hundreds of students from Luton Sixth Form College streamed out of their school, gathering outside in a sea of black, white and red keffiyehs and Palestinian flags. They carried banners and placards saying “Bombing kids is not self-defence” and “This is no ‘conflict’ it’s genocide”, referring to Israel’s war on Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 attacks on southern Israel.