Racism - Burngreave Messenger

Local victim of racist road rage wins justice

4th April 2022

Story by Sadia Khan. On February 26th 2020, Adnan Hussain was driving through Grimesthorpe when truck driver, Nicholas Clayton, 51, from Hillsborough, “thumped” on Adnan’s windows shouting a racial slur, adding “go back to your [Read more]

Taking the Knee in Sheffield city centre.

George Floyd: One year on

14th June 2021

Story by Yasmin Plews, Nicola Newman, and Jasmine Givnan, TTK anti-racist activists. Photo by Polly Perkins. A year has passed since we were locked down, synchronised as one with TV shows, online memes and Tiktok [Read more]

Sheffield against Slovak fascism

16th December 2019

Story and photo by David Hamburg Several hundred people gathered in London at the end of November to protest against the far-right Slovak political party Kotleba – the ‘People’s Party Our Slovakia’ known in Slovak [Read more]

A simple message

18th June 2018

Story and photo by Zia Khan On 28th April, Fir Vale based group, An Nasiha (Sincere Guidance) organised a demonstration in the city centre with the message ‘Islam says no to racism.’ Distributing balloons, stickers [Read more]

Tales from the Windrush Generation

18th June 2018

Story by Carrie Hedderwick and Messenger Staff Who are the Windrush generation? On 22 June 1948 the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks carrying the first Caribbean people who were invited to the UK to [Read more]