The arts were supposed to champion diversity. What went wrong? | Clive Nwonka

Arts Council England’s annual report on diversity reveals a sector, despite the rhetoric, still steeped in inequalityIn February 1999, the Macpherson report into the death of Stephen Lawrence made 70 recommendations for eradicating institutional racism within the police. Although the arts, culture and media sectors were not a target of the report, we can similarly trace the uptake of what would later become known as cultural diversity within these institutions – particularly at a tim