Black youth worker tasered wins £30k damages, pensioner's 42-year battle with Home Office & stories from Black, Asian & Arab communities you shouldn't have missed this week, curated by Melissa Sigodo

Racially abused for sharing Black History, yes, this has happened to me and so many others - This weeks podcast is out.

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Windrush

A Windrush pensioner has had his UK passport cancelled three times without warning during a punishing 42-year battle with the Home Office. Augustin Castang, 68, says it’s been a ‘stab in the heart’ & that as an introvert, ‘he didn’t know who to ask for help’. He added that news of fictional character Paddington Bear receiving a genuine British passport from the Home Office was “an insult.” Full story.