By Furvah Shah Following the sudden death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, on January 26th following a helicopter crash, condolences poured in immediately and media coverage was intense. Amongst those covering the story, BBC’s News at Ten featured a piece about the players' death during their programme. However, they made the mistake of including footage of another black basketball star, LeBron James, instead. Kobe Bryant (left) and LeBron James (right) Paul Royall, the editor of the BBC programme, tweeted that “we apologise for this human error which fell below our usual standards”. However, this is not the first incident of ‘human error’ in which the BBC, and other notable British media companies have unashamedly misidentified people of colour. Whether it’s the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, being misidentified for Pakistani cricket player, Wasim Akram, or if it’s member of Parliament, David Lammy, being mistaken for the journalist, Gary Y...
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