The Voice says

1. Protests over Ashford attack

Anger grows after video circulates on socials

2. Sickle cell ‘cure’ tested

Siblings had to fundraise for treatment in India and say it has transformed their lives

3. What is Tony Blair doing in Africa?

Making money with services to governments

4. ‘You touch one, you touch all’

Coverage of Ashford school protest

5. Why no media for Mariama?

Missing teen (since found) isn’t much covered in papers

6. Murder charge over Briton shot in JA

Jamaican police charge brother of victim

7. BBC apology over mix-up

Black women invisible to the law

BLACK women are rendered invisible in the law because the out-of-date Equality Act fails to recognise intersectionality.

That means a Black woman challenging discrimination at work at a tribunal have to pick from gender or race, or include both as separate allegations. The tribunal then decides each claim separately.

This makes no sense. A Black woman might face discrimination in circumstances where a Black man, or a white woman, would not.

Fundamentally, this is about believing Black women when they say their treatment is the result of a combination, not a coincidence, of race and gender.

The term misogynoir is more used in the States than the UK, but it encapsulates the need to recognise this combination, and it is about time our law caught up with the times. A Black, disabled, lesbian or trans woman might feel the combination of all four identities has brought them unfair treatment, yet the law says each needs to be proven individually.

8. Black nurses targeted

Beeb confuse Beyonce with Viola Davis Senior nurse hits out at NHS over racism

An update on missing schoolgirl case

Relief as missing schoolgirl from Walworth discovered

It should be up to the victim to say if they believe they were targeted because they have multiple identities. Black women deserve to be recognised not just as Black people, and not just as women, but as Black women where it is felt the two identities together have caused discrimination.

The call for Valerie’s Law, in memory of Valerie Forde who was killed by her partner, is essentially about recognising misogynoir. But it’s not just about the criminal justice system. Black women are worst hit by tax and benefit changes from successive budgets, especially during the period of austerity.

When it comes to preventing discrimination in the public sector, through what’s called ‘positive duties’, gender and race are rarely focussed on in tandem. overnment don t even keep figures for Black women taking out employment tribunals, only providing separate statistics for gender and ethnicity.

The law is hopelessly out of date.

Labour plan to reopen the Equality Act with ‘secondary legislation’ to enable all-Black political shortlists. While they are at it, they should introduce intersectionality to recognise misogynoir.