David Weaver: Tired, but not tapping out

What happens when a community can speak eloquently about its problems, but not so much about the solutions?

We explore this in the latest episode of The Black Paper, with David Weaver, Chair of Operation Black Vote.

David has spent his career inside British institutions — social work, local government, Whitehall, and for the past seven years leading the organisation that has spent thirty years trying to close the Black democratic deficit. We ask him what that work has delivered, whether OBV's founding proposition still holds, and what political leverage looks like for Black communities when all the options are bad.

Key topics

• The importance of voting and civic participation
• The normalisation of racism in politics
• Strategies for community engagement and leadership
• The impact of legislation on black communities
• Building alliances across communities