Doreen Lawrence

Doreen Lawrence

Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE (née Graham; born 24 October 1949) is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in an attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire for "services to community relations" in 2003, and Lawrence was created a Life Peer in 2013. Doreen Lawrence had a broad scope of interest. On the first national Stephen Lawrence Day on the 22nd April 2019 She described how she had worked for 26 years hoping for “an inclusive society for everyone to live their best life, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion, disability or background.”

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