On a warm summer's day in July 1982, the Brixton West Indies Cricket Club and the Metropolitan Police came together in an attempt to bridge their differences by playing a game of cricket at the Oval.

The story of a young man growing up in the shadow of the Brixton riots has been shortlisted for a prestigious literary prize. Lee Lawrence was 11 in 1985 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot in a ...

After more than a week of race riots across the UK, police are now deployed around the capital London amid fresh threats there from the far-right. After more than a week of race riots across the ...

Alex Alphonso Wheatle MBE (3 January 1963 – 16 March 2025) was a British novelist known as the Bard of Brixton, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the 1981 Brixton riot in London.