DOCSLIB.ORG

A Celebration of Black History in the UK (2020)

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
A Celebration of Black History in the UK (2020) Great Black Briton: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY IN THE UK CONTENTS Foreward/Message to readers ................................................................3 Influential People ........................................................................................4 Influential Movements ............................................................................16 Further resources ....................................................................................22 Lead and Be Led information ...............................................................23 2 | Great Black Britain FOREWORD As young Black people in the UK, we movement. By Black people entering spaces believe that it is essential to have a means of politics, journalism, art, entertainment, of support and continuous celebration of sport we are changing the narrative and our efforts to society. Growing up in the UK deciding how we want to be perceived. We with a curriculum that places importance on want to celebrate those who have worked educating British culture without including endlessly to transform and create new the significant contributions of Black Britons narratives and histories for Black Brits and is disheartening. inspire many locally and globally. A vast majority of schools educate their We hope this booklet of Black excellence will pupils on Black British history that has either inspire you to fight against the oppressive, been taught over previous years which racist and classist system that regularly can be diluted version of history or focused ignores, undermines and harms communities on Black suffering. Raising awareness of colour. We have only named a few about the importance of celebrating Black amazing figures and movements that have History in Britain in will allow students and attempted to break racist structures, but staff to have a better understanding of the we urge you to find out more about these history that goes on within the country powerful moments in history and learn about that has shaped many people’s lives. We others figures who may have not been as imagine that young Black children and successful, recognised, or put in the spotlight students should be given the chance to be as some of the people in this booklet have inspired in the same way their white British been. Look into your own communities, and counterparts are. we are certain that you will find countless amazing and inspirational people. There are many limitations placed on an individual due to circumstances they had This brochure is an example of how much no choice in deciding. These create barriers hard work, passion and dedication our that restrict our abilities, dreams and hopes. have in social justice and celebrating the This resource aims to show that with a achievements of Black Britons in the UK. vision, nothing is capable of preventing Please enjoy the booklet and we hope you you from accomplishing and fulfilling your are all inspired! ambitions. The people discussed on the coming pages overcame every challenge This booklet would not have been and created opportunities which carved the made possible without Cohort 5 of path for a fair and just society. The Anti-Tribalism Movement’s youth leadership programme who worked hard Media portrayal of Black people in various to research the contents inside. contexts, may it be beauty standards, class, wealth, education and career, has been A special thanks to: unreliable for decades. Black communities Nadra Adan Ayaan Ali are often generalised as working class and Hannah Abdalla Ismail Ali coming from a place of struggle. When Nadiya Haji-Abdi Yasmin Nur creating a place for themselves in society Iqra Moalin Liam Duke by fighting for it, its labelled as “violent Samira Moalin Faizaan Butt and aggressive”, which has been proved Nurah Mahamud by the reception to the Black Lives Matter A Celebration Of Black History | 3 INFLUENTIAL FIGURES Professor Laura Serrant OBE, PhD, making a difference and included MA, BA, PCGE, RGN comes from Serrant for her work in community and a working class and immigrant public health nursing at the University background, she was one of the first of Wolverhampton. people in her family to go to university where she studied for a Bachelor In 2017 it was announced that of Arts degree, later qualifying as a Serrant was recognised in the 2018 nurse. Serrant specialises in sexual Powerlist as the eighth most influential and reproductive health, working in black person in the United Kingdom, outreach supporting sex workers, and in the same year she was people with drug and alcohol awarded an honorary doctorate by dependence, the homeless community Abertay University. and tackling negative social attitudes to In the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours, HIV and AIDS, her work in these fields she was appointed an Officer of the especially her work for the homeless Order of the British Empire (OBE) community has not only raised far more for services to health policy. Serrant awareness for them but she has also has also been included on the 2019 improved many of their lives and she and 2020 Powerlist of the 100 most continues to do so. influential Britons of African/African She has gone on to hold positions Caribbean descent. Laura Serrant Professor nationally and internationally, leading work at NHS England as head of evidence and strategy and working on the Prime Minister’s commission for the review of nursing and midwifery by the Department of Health. Serrant claims that time and time again she has found herself to be the sole voice to represent the minority community within medicine as Manchester Metropolitian’s Head of Nursing, a position which has led her to empower others to join her. Her work has also brought her into the educational field where she currently works part time as a lecturer in Nottingham University. In 2014, the Health Service Journal compiled a list of the 50 people from Black & Minority ethnicities working within the NHS that are inspiring and 4 | Great Black Briton Gold medalist in both the 5000m and 10,000m. Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah, and the first in history to defend both CBE OLY, commonly known as Mo distance titles in both major global Farah, is a British distance runner. competitions Since finishing 2nd in the 10,000 metres at the 2011 The most successful British track World Championships in Athletics, athlete in modern Olympic Games Farah had an unbroken streak of ten history, he is the 2012 and 2016 global final. Mo Farah Olympic gold medallist in both the 5000m and 10,000m. Farah The streak ended in Farah’s final is the second athlete in modern championship track race, when he Olympic Games history to win both finished second to Ethiopia’s Muktar the 5000m and 10,000m titles at Edris in the 2017 5000 metres successive Olympic Games. He also final. In his final track race, the 2017 completed the ‘distance double’ Diamond League Final in Zurich at the 2013 and 2015 World in August 2017, Farah gained his Championships in Athletics. He was revenge, edging out world champion the second man in history to win Edris to win his only IAAF Diamond long-distance doubles at successive League title at 5000 metres. Olympics and World Championships, A Celebration Of Black History | 5 Between 1961 and 1965, Farah was Somalia’s Ambassador to Ethiopia. He acted as Somalia’s representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in 1962. Ambassador Farah also represented the nation at Council of Ministers meetings of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1964 and 1965. From 1965 to 1972, Farah was the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations in New York City. He concurrently served as the Acting Director General of Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1966. From 1969 to 1972, Farah was the Chairperson Abdulrahim Abby Farah (October 22, of the UN Special Committee Against 1919 – May 14, 2018) was a Welsh Apartheid, presiding over a special born Somali diplomat and politician. session of the United Nations Security He was Deputy Secretary General of Council in 1972. He acted as the the United Nations 1979-1990. Assistant Secretary-General for Special Political Questions between 1973 and He served as the Permanent 1978. Additionally, Farah served as Representative of Somalia to the Somalia’s representative within the United Nations, and as the Ambassador League of Arab States. of Somalia to Ethiopia. He was the Chairperson of the PaSAGO non- From 1973 to 1978, he was the governmental organization. Undersecretary-General for Special Political Questions, later becoming the Farah was born on 22 October 1919, Undersecretary General from 1979 in Barry, Wales and his father Abby to 1990. In 1990, Farah headed the Farah, was a Somali entrepreneur and UN Mission on ‘Progress made on sailor, who was awarded an MBE for the Declaration on Apartheid and his community service to sailors in war its Destructive Consequences on time in need of accommodation and South Africa’. communal support upon arrival in the United Kingdom. His mother, Hilda In 1998, Farah helped found Anderson, ran a boarding house. Racial the Partnership to Strengthen Abdulrahman ‘Abby’ Farah Farah Abdulrahman ‘Abby’ tensions in South East Wales were African Grassroots Organizations high at the time, following on from the (PaSAGO). He later served as the Cardiff Race Riots in June 1919. non-governmental organization’s Chairperson. Farah died in May 2018 at Farah began his diplomatic career the age of 98. His biggest achievement with the Trust Territory of Somaliland was being an instrumental proponent administration, sent there age 17 of dismantling the South-African by his father. He served in various apartheid system through his work at capacities from 1951 to 1961, the United Nations. including as Director of the Somali Information Service. 6 | Great Black Briton At 22 he published his first poetry book in 1980 Born and raised in Birmingham, movements concerning Black Zephaniah is a poet/ professor/ British’ to organising community- actor/ martial arts teacher/ based efforts with regards to novelist/ musician.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Darcus Howe: a Political Biography
    Bunce, Robin, and Paul Field. "‘Dabbling with Revolution’: Black Power Comes to Britain." Darcus Howe: A Political Biography. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 27–42. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 1 Oct. 2021. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472544407.ch-002>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 1 October 2021, 10:59 UTC. Copyright © Robin Bunce and Paul Field 2014. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. 2 ‘ Dabbling with Revolution ’ : Black Power Comes to Britain Th e Dialectics of Liberation conference of July 1967 brought the 1960s ’ counterculture to the heart of London. Th e 2-week conference, convened by R. D. Laing and leading fi gures in the anti-psychiatry movement, featured contributions from Beat Generation writers William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; Emmett Grogan, founder of the San Francisco anarchist movement Th e Diggers; and the Frankfurt School neo-Marxist, Herbert Marcuse (Cooper 1968: 9). Th e conference practised the countercultural values that it preached, spontaneously transforming the Roundhouse and Camden ’ s pubs and bars into informal collegiums, the founding event of the anti-university of London (Ibid., 11). Black Power, a movement that had emerged at the cutting edge of the American Civil Rights struggle the year before, had several representatives at the conference. Th e headline black radical and the most controversial speaker by far was Howe ’ s fellow Trinidadian and childhood friend, Stokely Carmichael, now the harbinger of the Black Power revolution. Th e British press responded to his visit by branding him ‘ an evil campaigner of hate ’ and ‘ the most eff ective preacher of racial hatred at large today ’ (Humphry and Tindall 1977: 63).
    [Show full text]
  • Black Community Self-Narration, and Black Power for Children in the US and UK
    Research on Diversity in Youth Literature Volume 3 Issue 1 Minstrelsy and Racist Appropriation Article 7 (3.1) and General Issue (3.2) April 2021 Power Primers: Black Community Self-Narration, and Black Power for Children in the US and UK Karen Sands-O'Connor Newcastle University Follow this and additional works at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons, and the Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority Commons Recommended Citation Sands-O'Connor, Karen (2021) "Power Primers: Black Community Self-Narration, and Black Power for Children in the US and UK," Research on Diversity in Youth Literature: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 7. Available at: https://sophia.stkate.edu/rdyl/vol3/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by SOPHIA. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research on Diversity in Youth Literature by an authorized editor of SOPHIA. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sands-O'Connor: Power Primers: Black Community Self-Narration, and Black Power fo “We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of the self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your position in the society and in the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else” (Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, point 5). In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale created a ten-point program for their nascent Black Panther Party organization based in Oakland, California.
    [Show full text]
  • Black Oppressed People All Over the World Are One’: the British Black Panthers’ Grassroots Internationalism, 1969­1973
    `Black oppressed people all over the world are one': the British Black Panthers' grassroots internationalism, 1969-1973 Article (Accepted Version) Angelo, Anne-Marie (2018) ‘Black oppressed people all over the world are one’: the British Black Panthers’ grassroots internationalism, 1969-1973. Journal of Civil and Human Rights, 4 (1). pp. 64-97. ISSN 2378-4245 This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65918/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher’s version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse: Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University. Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available. Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk ‘Black Oppressed People All Over the World Are One’: The British Black Panthers’ Grassroots Internationalism, 1969-1973 Anne-Marie Angelo University of Sussex Under review with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights August 2016 On March 21, 1971, over 4,500 people opposing a proposed UK government Immigration Bill marched from Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London to Whitehall.
    [Show full text]
  • British Black Power: the Anti-Imperialism of Political Blackness and the Problem of Nativist Socialism
    King’s Research Portal DOI: 10.1177/0038026119845550 Document Version Peer reviewed version Link to publication record in King's Research Portal Citation for published version (APA): Narayan, J. (2019). British Black Power: The anti-imperialism of political blackness and the problem of nativist socialism . SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 67(5), 845-967. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119845550 Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on King's Research Portal is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Post-Print version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognize and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. •Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research. •You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain •You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the Research Portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.
    [Show full text]
  • An Interview with Ansel Wong
    Student politics, teaching politics, black politics: an interview with Ansel Wong Article (Accepted Version) Waters, Rob (2016) Student politics, teaching politics, black politics: an interview with Ansel Wong. Race and Class, 58 (1). pp. 17-33. ISSN 0306-3968 This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66411/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher’s version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse: Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University. Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available. Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Student Politics, Teaching Politics, Black Politics: An Interview with Ansel Wong By Rob Waters Ansel Wong is the quiet man of British black politics, rarely in the limelight and never seeking political office.
    [Show full text]
  • Fairies, Feminists & Queer Anarchists: Geographies of Squatting In
    FAIRIES, FEMINISTS & QUEER ANARCHISTS: Geographies of squatting in Brixton, south London Milo Bettocchi Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Geography 7 January 2021 Approx. 87,000 words Abstract This thesis assembles cultural, historical, political, affective and infrastructural geographies of squatting in Brixton, south London. It does so to spatialise the complex material and affective processes through which identities, collectivities and political projects are assembled, negotiated and navigated; to document vital spaces, histories, dynamics, political lineages and struggles which the literature on squatting in England has overlooked; and to critically interrogate and expand how squatting in England has been conceptualised. In pursuing these aims, this thesis insists on and demonstrates the co-constitution of the spatial and the political. Where work on squatting in England has largely concentrated on a narrow range of collectives, spaces and time periods and has neglected how squatting has intersected with anti-racist, decolonial, feminist and LGBTQ struggles and politics, this thesis responds to these gaps. Chapters focus on what became known in the 1970s as the Brixton Gay Community, an experiment in communal living and revolutionary politics by gay men; on the Brixton Black Women’s Group, a socialist, anti-imperialist feminist organisation active in the 1970s and 1980s; on Queeruption, an anarchist queer festival organised out of a squat in the late 1990s; and on the House of Brag, a queer squatting collective active between 2012 and 2014. I argue that thinking squatting through these can profoundly reframe our understandings of squatting. To this end, I have drawn on 24 original interviews as well as on a broad range of archival material.
    [Show full text]
  • Lu Es O Em Br Uta De Stado Caso M 197 Runo a E Class De Is Dos P 71
    2º CICLO DE ESTUDOS EM HISTÓRIA, RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS E COOPERAÇÃO ESPECIALIZAÇÃO EM ESTUDOS POLÍTICOS Luta de classes e divisões étnicas no Estado de Israel O caso dos Panteras Negras de Israel em 1971-72 Bruno Alexandre Reis Costa M 2018 Bruno Alexandre Reis Costa Luta de classes e divisões étnicas no Estado de Israel O caso dos Panteras Negras de Israel em 1971-72 ~ Dissertação realizada no âmbito do Mestrado em História, Relações Internacionais e Cooperação (Especialização em Estudos Políticos) orientada pelo Professor Doutor Manuel Vicente de Sousa Lima Loff Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto Setembro de 2018 Luta de Classes e divisões étnicas no Estado de Israel O caso dos Panteras Negras de Israel em 1971-72 Bruno Alexandre Reis Costa Dissertação realizada no âmbito do Mestrado em História, Relações Internacionais e Cooperação (Especialização em Estudos Políticos) orientada pelo Professor Doutor Manuel Vicente de Sousa Lima Loff Membros do Júri Professor Doutor Luís Antunes Grosso Correia (Presidente) Faculdade de Letras – Universidade do Porto Professor Doutor Manuel Vicente de Sousa Lima Loff (Vogal) Faculdade de Letras – Universidade do Porto Professora Doutura Teresa Almeida Cravo (Arguente) Faculdade de Economia – Universidade de Coimbra Classificação obtida: 19 valores “A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet.
    [Show full text]
  • Squatted Social Centres in England and Italy in the Last Decades of the Twentieth Century
    Squatted social centres in England and Italy in the last decades of the twentieth century. Giulio D’Errico Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD Department of History and Welsh History Aberystwyth University 2019 Abstract This work examines the parallel developments of squatted social centres in Bristol, London, Milan and Rome in depth, covering the last two decades of the twentieth century. They are considered here as a by-product of the emergence of neo-liberalism. Too often studied in the present tense, social centres are analysed here from a diachronic point of view as context- dependent responses to evolving global stimuli. Their ‗journey through time‘ is inscribed within the different English and Italian traditions of radical politics and oppositional cultures. Social centres are thus a particularly interesting site for the development of interdependency relationships – however conflictual – between these traditions. The innovations brought forward by post-modernism and neo-liberalism are reflected in the centres‘ activities and modalities of ‗social‘ mobilisation. However, centres also voice a radical attitude towards such innovation, embodied in the concepts of autogestione and Do-it-Yourself ethics, but also through the reinstatement of a classist approach within youth politics. Comparing the structured and ambitious Italian centres to the more informal and rarefied English scene allows for commonalities and differences to stand out and enlighten each other. The individuation of common trends and reciprocal exchanges helps to smooth out the initial stark contrast between local scenes. In turn, it also allows for the identification of context- based specificities in the interpretation of local and global phenomena.
    [Show full text]
  • 'Policing the Crisis'?
    Still ‘Policing the Crisis’? Black and mixed-‘race’ experiences of policing in West Yorkshire Lisa Jane Long Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) May, 2016 - ii - The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. The right of Lisa Jane Long to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. © 2016 The University of Leeds and Lisa Jane Long - iii - Dedication For Christopher Alder. And My friend Janet Alder-his strong, determined, truth seeking sister and warrior for justice without whom my life would have taken a different path. I am humbled and inspired by her fighting spirit in the face of multiple injustices. No Justice-No Peace - iv - Acknowledgements I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my research participants. It was an honour and a privilege that they agreed to share their stories with me and I hope I have done them justice here. I acknowledge with thanks the University of Leeds for the Teaching and Research Scholarship which enabled me to complete this project. Also, I would like to thank Dr Paul Bagguley and Dr Yasmin Hussain for their supervision and feedback.
    [Show full text]
  • The Anti-Imperialism of Political Blackness and the Problem of Nativist Socialism
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by King's Research Portal King’s Research Portal DOI: 10.1177/0038026119845550 Document Version Peer reviewed version Link to publication record in King's Research Portal Citation for published version (APA): Narayan, J. (2019). British Black Power: The anti-imperialism of political blackness and the problem of nativist socialism . SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119845550 Citing this paper Please note that where the full-text provided on King's Research Portal is the Author Accepted Manuscript or Post-Print version this may differ from the final Published version. If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognize and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. •Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research. •You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain •You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the Research Portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.
    [Show full text]
  • The Black Panthers in London, 1967 – 1972: a Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic
    The Black Panthers in London, 1967 – 1972: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic Anne-Marie Angelo The history of Black Power in Britain is the history of the shit class trying to organize themselves. — Obi Egbuna, Destroy This Temple On March 2, 1970, roughly one hundred people protested outside the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, in support of the U.S. Black Panther founder Bobby Seale, who was on trial for murder in New Haven, Connecticut. They chanted “Free Bobby!” and carried posters proclaiming “Free, Free Bobby Seale” and “You Can Kill a Revolutionary but Not a Revolution.” Demonstrator Tony Thomas waved a large red and yellow flag emblazoned with a Black Panther symbol. Claiming that “their joint actions amounted to a general threat to passers by,” London police arrested sixteen of the protestors that day. Police charged these three women and thirteen men with threatening and assaulting police officers, distributing a flier enti- tled “The Definition of Black Power,” intending to incite a breach of the peace, and willful damage to a police raincoat. At trial, the judge dropped the raincoat charge and found five of the accused, named as “Black Panther Defendants,” guilty of the remaining charges.1 Radical History Review Issue 103 (Winter 2009) d o i 10.1215/01636545-2008-030 © 2009 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 17 18 Radical History Review Here, the symbols, chants, and demands of the U.S. Black Panther Party (USBPP) crossed the Atlantic, stimulating shared racial and class identifications across national borders and intersecting with these Afro-Britons who identified themselves as the British Black Power Movement from 1967 to 1968 and as the Brit- ish Black Panther Movement (BBPM) from 1968 to 1972.
    [Show full text]
  • An Anthology Zine
    An Anthology Zine Featuring Q&A with the Director Steve McQueen Literary Works From Dr. Samantha Rennalls Shenequa A. Golding Stephanie Smith-Strickland Alex Wheatle Evette Dionne Julian Mitchell Edited By Ivie Ani Designed By Chindo Nkenke-Smith Special Thanks To Paula Woods John Boyega as Leroy Logan in Red, White And Blue. Photo Credit: Will Robson Scott / Amazon Prime Video. Letitia Wright as Altheia Jones – LeCointe in Mangrove. Photo Credit: Des Willie / Amazon Prime Video. Kenyah Sandy as Kingsley Smith in Education. Photo Credit: Will Micheal Ward as Franklyn in Lovers Rock. Photo Credit: Parisa Taghizedeh / Amazon Prime Video. Robson Scott / Amazon Prime Video. Q&A with Stevec Sheryi Cole as Alex Wheatle (left) and Khali Best as Badger (right) in Alex Wheatle. Photo Credit: Will Robson Scott / Amazon Prime Video. M Queen What inspired you to develop this as an anthology series? These are true stories that needed to be told. Stories that shaped the landscape of Britain. Stories that had been Steve McQueen with John Boyega on set of Red, White And Blue. ignored for generations and even unknown to many Black Brits. At first, I conceivedSmall Axe as a TV series, but as Photo Credit: Will Robson-Scott / Amazon Prime Video. time went on things evolved. As I, my co-writers Courttia Newland and Alastair Siddons, along with researcher Helen Bart, dug deeper into the research and personal stories behind these pivotal moments in British history, it became that total, absolute lack of inhibition. It was very liberating and so much fun to make. It was great working with costume clear that each one deserved and needed to be a standalone film.
    [Show full text]