Black Lives Matter: Changes this year…

The statues of slave trader, Edward Colston in Bristol and Robert Milligan in Canary Wharf, are removed. A statue of a kneeling Black man is also moved from Dunham Massey Hall.

Cass Business School in London changes its name to The Business School, Colston Hall in Bristol will be called Bristol Beacon and the University of Liverpool will rename one of its buildings, all due to their associations with slave traders.

Hundreds of UK businesses including Barclays, Autotrader, Microsoft UK, Deloitte and PWC, pledge to address inequality and take action against racism in the workplace.

From April 2021, all new BBC programmes will be required to meet a 20% diversity quota and the corporation is investing £100m of its budget (over three years) to produce more inclusive content.

Dancewear manufacturers Bloch and Capezio respond to petitions and agree to make more clothes and shoes (such as ballet pumps) to match darker skin tones. Tesco becomes the first supermarket to sell plasters in a variety of shades and Crayola launches crayons in different skin-tone colours so ‘all kids can colour themselves’.

Netflix adds a permanent Black Lives Matter category to highlight Black storytelling and racial injustice.

More than 200 UK advertising and media leaders, such as Facebook, ITV and IPA, sign Adland’s open letter pledging solidarity with Black talent and promising to address inequality in the creative sector.