Special Report: Race, Racism and the Channel Islands

In this ITV News special series we are looking at the issues of race and racism in the Channel Islands.

In the month the Black Lives Matter movement has reached the Channel Islands, with a protest last week in Jersey and one planned for Guernsey, we are hearing from black islanders about their own experiences.

People have shared stories of overt racism, but also what is known as micro-aggressions: seemingly small incidents, which when they happen repeatedly, are symptomatic of more subtle forms of discrimination against somebody else, simply because of the colour of their skin.

We will speak to Lesley Katsande, who is originally from Zimbabwe, and bring her together with John Refault who was responsible for the statue of George Carteret in St Peter.

Questions have been asked about why his prolific links to the slave trade were not mentioned on the plaque about his life.

• Jersey's Black Lives Matter demonstration in pictures

Jade Ecobichon-Gray will share her experience of growing up in a mixed race family, and the pull of two, sometimes, competing cultural identities.

We will speak to both researchers into the islands' slave trade past and those looking to reform the way our history is taught to give a full story of what happened.

We also speak to 23-year-old Jerseyman Keiran Brown. He was one of the speakers at the Black Lives Matter protest at People's Park.

• Part One - Keiran Brown:

• Part Two - Lesley Katsande:

• Jade Ecobichon-Gray shares her experience of growing up in a mixed race family in Jersey:

• Blog: If you say ‘all lives matter’, I say this...

• Guernsey's government under pressure to further tackle racism on the island