INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
the confusion was of two women of colour appearing at a race and faith event, and that nobody in the BBC corrected it before the film of her
She then began an action for defamation, also requesting that the BBC publicly commit to new processes to prevent the misidentification of
BAME people.The letter of claim, sent by her solicitors Rahman Lowe, cited previous examples of the BBC confusing the black Labour MPs Dawn
appeared at the same Labour event where the recording in question was captured
That was what caused the original confusion in the archive
right that the BBC has publicly apologised for its mistake, but time and time again we have seen the BBC and other organisations make the
same mistake with people of colour
court heard how the BBC refused to make a public commitment to put processes in place to guard against this in future
I hope that the BBC will now implement processes to ensure mistakes such as this do not happen again and improve diversity within the
misidentification because it would be inconsistent with its independence and accountability to its regulator.Begum was elected to
Westminster council, central London last year, having previously been a Labour party activist and community and social housing campaigner.A
It was a genuine mistake during a live programme that arose from archive footage being incorrectly labelled in our system
We apologised on air at the first opportunity and took immediate steps to correct our system
This article first appeared/also appeared in theguardian.com
