Aside from his work in publishing, Huntley was for many years involved in racial justice campaigns in the UK. He was a key figure in the Caribbean Education and Community Workers Association and the Black Parents Movement; the first formed in response to the racist labelling of large numbers of black children as “educationally subnormal” and the second campaigning against “sus” laws that allowed police to stop, search, and arrest individuals on suspicion of intent to commit a crime – a facility that was deployed disproportionately against young black people in the 1970s and 80s.