The UK government’s refusal to condemn the booing of players who took the knee created this toxic atmosphere.
![Messages of support cover racist graffiti on the vandalised mural of England and Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford on a wall in Withington, Manchester [Christopher Furlong/Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/GettyImages-1328347040.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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How a Birmingham-born mother fought to be reunited with her children and exposed the racism of the UK Home Office.
![A clipping from the Rochdale Observer newspaper in 1981 about Anwar Ditta’s successful campaign to be reunited with her children who were in Pakistan. Here, she is pictured with her daughter, Samera [Photo courtesy of Anwar Ditta]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Fig13.png?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The success of individual struggles in Africa depends on achieving continent-wide solidarity.
![Demonstrators hold banners and shout slogans during a protest against police brutality, in Lagos, Nigeria on October 12, 2020 [Reuters/Temilade Adelaja]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-10-12T110240Z_1965425172_RC2YGJ9HYJWF_RTRMADP_3_NIGERIA-PROTESTS-POLICE-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The 79-year-old activist, Sam Sagay, looks back on a life of Black Power in Britain and Nigeria.
![The Black Panther Movement at the Mangrove Nine march in 1970 [Photo courtesy of National Archives UK]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/24284955104_1122f88183_o.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
It is time we move beyond our obsession with revolutionary aesthetics and engage with its politics.
