Race on the Agenda

ROTA Podcast: Talking About Race

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A podcast show ‘Talking About Race’ with expert guests from across the anti-racism space to discuss the issues facing Black and Global Majority communities across the UK and beyond. ROTA is one of Britain’s leading anti-racist change drivers. Working with communities impacted by systemic racism, ROTA helps create the policies and practices to tackle inequality. ROTA aims to support and amplify the work of anti-racist organisations across the country as they work to bring equality to their communities. ROTA focuses on issues impacting on the Black and Global Majority communities.

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Talking About Race - Episode 8: Confronting Racial Injustice in Housing 05.03.2026 41:05

Episode 8 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’, hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by Leninna Ofori, housing expert, academic and author. Lennina also sits on the advisory board for our housing project, Brick by Brick. ROTA launched Brick by Brick to confront racial injustice in housing. The programme centres the voice...

Talking About Race - Episode 7: Are Summer Riots the “New Normal”? 05.09.2025 57:42

Episode 7 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’, hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests Dr Anthony Ince and Dr Maya Goodfellow . D Anthony Ince is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University and a lifelong anti-fascist based in South Bristol. Dr Maya Goodfellow is a Presidential Fellow in the Depart...

Talking About Race - Episode 6: 'Addressing Mental Health Inequalities' 14.08.2025 50:15

Episode 6 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’, hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests Dame Marie Gabriel and Chris Frederick. Dame Marie has over 20 years of NHS Board experience, and is currently the Chair of the NHS North East London Integrated Care System, Chair of the NHS Race and Health Observatory and an A...

Talking About Race - Episode 5: Migration Narratives: Year in Review 18.04.2025 50:51

Episode 5 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’. Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Lara Parizotto, and Maymuna Osman. Lara is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Migrant Democracy Project, and Maymuna is currently National Organiser with Migrants Organise. The guests are discussing how narra...

Talking About Race - Episode 4: Racism in the Rainbow 28.02.2025 56:34

Episode 4 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’. Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Aisha Shaibu-Lenoir, and Sakib Khan. Aisha is an entrepreneur and LGBTQ+ activist, founder of Moonlight Experiences, and a Director at The Common Press, a queer, intersectional bookshop in East London. Sakib is a London En...

Talking About Race - Episode 3: Race Equity Online - Is it Time to Leave Social Media? 11.02.2025 58:48

Episode 3 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’. Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Jabeer Butt OBE, Chief Executive of Race Equity Foundation, and Nina Kelly, Director of Content & Communications at Reframing Race, to discuss ‘Race Equity Online - Is it Time to Leave Social Media?’. For more info...

Talking About Race - Episode 2: The Second Trump Presidency 23.01.2025 1:07:44

Episode 2 of our podcast show ‘Talking About Race’ . Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Fizza Qureshi, CEO of Migrants' Rights Network, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, a political campaigner and commentator, and Dr Ariel Breaux Torres, a mental health expert and passionate advocate for race equity and racial justice, to...

Talking About Race - Episode 1: Beyond Black History Month 09.01.2025 1:02:38

Episode 1 of our new podcast show ‘Talking About Race’ . Podcast hosted by Dr Kulvinder Nagre, ROTA's Research and Policy Coordinator. In this episode, Kulvinder is joined by guests: Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of UK Black Pride, and Alba Kapoor, Head of Policy at the Runnymede Trust, to discuss Black History Month, along with wider issues around the ways in which Black...

ROTA Podcast coming soon 23.12.2024 0:10

ROTA are launching a brand new podcast show ‘Talking About Race’. We will be hosting expert guests from across the anti-racism space to discuss the issues facing Black and Global Majority communities across the UK and beyond. For our first episode, to be published at 5pm on 9 January 2025 where we will be joined by Lady Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of UK Black Pride, and...