FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Championship - Birmingham City v Fulham - St Andrew's, Birmingham, Britain - September 15, 2021 Birmingham City's Troy Deeney celebrates scoring their first goal Action Images/Andrew Boyers
LONDON (Reuters) - Birmingham City striker Troy Deeney has launched a petition and sent an open letter to the British government calling for the teaching of Black, Asian and minority ethnic history to be mandatory in English schools.
An anti-racism campaigner who helped to design the Black Lives Matter logo that featured on English Premier League club shirts in 2020, Deeney has written to education minister Nadhim Zahawi, saying the current school curriculum is "failing children from ethnic minorities".
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