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Will we ever see an anti-racist Wales?
A new Race Equality Action Plan from the Welsh government is a welcome first step – but the real challenge will be to implement it, says Wales TUC leader SHAVANAH TAJ

THE vile attacks on footballers this week was a grim insight into how racism manifests itself in modern Britain.
Another is the fact that black and minority ethnic (BME) women are nearly twice as likely as white men to be on zero-hours contracts.
And yet another is the awful reality that BME workers have been over-represented in jobs with higher Covid-19 death rates.
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