Compared to Avatar, first-of-its-kind treatment and other stories from Black, Asian an Arab communities in the UK you shouldn't have missed this week - curated by Melissa Sigodo.

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Without further ado, here are the stories you shouldn’t have missed this week.

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News

Grammy Award-Winning Musician Fuse ODG has launched an app to help children learn African history and languages. He said: “Growing up, I never felt represented. Any time I would see anyone who looked like me on television, it would be something negative” and that his SONA app will solve that problem. Full story.

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A 55-year-old woman says she’s been attending Notting Hill Carnival since “her very first year of life.” Jacqui Haynes whose mum is Jamaican, and her father Guyanese says, “it’s part of my heritage, part of who I am and what I do.” Full story.

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A recruitment consultant has won a £12,000 payout after a job interviewer compared her to a character from the film Avatar. Jasmine Fubara claims she was subject to “microaggressions” including a colleague asking if she was listening to "ghetto music". Full story.

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The United Nations has told the UK to clamp down on hate speech following concerns over far-right rioting across the country. The UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calling for alleged racial profiling by police to be addressed as well as and discrimination in “criminal justice, housing, schools and healthcare.” Full story.