I would never have heard of Mary Seacole were it not for Black History Month, the one time in the year when black achievement is given centre stage.

Rebecca Skloot begins her non-fiction book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a true story about a woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge

The tweeting for success seminar at last year’s London Book Fair was hugely popular and I made it into the room by the skin of my teeth.

But for one word, the twitter storm surrounding Diane Abbott would have come to nothing. If she had just qualified her tweet

The term ‘playing the race card’ is often used to minimise the experience and consequences of racism,

One of the first initiatives from the coalition government was to start a conversation about fairness. “What is it?” they asked. “And what does it really mean?”