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remember your responsibilities as a citizen for the conduct of local national and international affairs. Do not shrink from the time effort your involvement may demand.
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How to be Anti racist by Ibram x. Kendi
Layla Saad talks about her book
Akala talks about his book
Reni Edo Lodge talks about her book Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
reni edo lodge
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Quakers were totally immersed in the slave trade not just as abolitionists. They were ship owners, captains, merchants and investors in ports in London and Bristol.
Edwina pert Quakers Diversity and Inclusion Officer
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On Easter Sunday 1967 the Reverend Albert Cleage renamed his church in Detroit the Shrine of the Black Madonna. He preached that if man was made in God’s image there was little chance that Jesus was white as most of the world’s population is non-white World Service witness history
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Small Axe is a British Anthology film series by Steve McQueen. Consists of five dramatised films which tell distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from 1960-1980.
“If you are a big tree, we are a small axe.” Bob Marley
Lee Lawrence was 11 years old when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot during a police raid on their family home in Brixton, south London.The shooting sparked an uprising in Brixton – where tensions were already high between the many black residents and the overwhelmingly white police – and the event became known as the 1985 Brixton Riots. His mother was left paralysed from the waist down and Lee became her carer for the next 26 years. After Cherry died in 2011, he continued to fight for justice for her. World service Outlook
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An almost forgotten history of the British Black power movement from those who fought it. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the history of the nation. BBC Iplayer TV 89 mins
The untold story of the years when Black Power came to Britain and forever left its mark – the coming together, political ideas, leaders and legacy. Inspired by the American Black Panther Party, the British Black Panthers were founded in London’s Notting Hill in 1968 – the first Panther organisation outside the United States. Their mission was to change the terms of engagement about race in Britain, promote self-determination and challenge the British state.BBC sounds archive on 4
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In April 1968 a politician put race at the centre of British politics. Enoch Powell’s inflamed racist speech
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Rivers of Blood In April 1968, Enoch Powell made one of the most incendiary speeches in modern British politics. Ian McDiarmid reads the Rivers of Blood speech in its entirety – the first time it has been broadcast complete on British radio. BBC sounds archive on 4
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Taking the speech section by section, he BBC’s Media Editor Amol Rajan and a range of contributors reflect on the enduring influence and significance of the speech, which was delivered to local Conservative Party members in Birmingham just a few days ahead of the crucial second reading of the 1968 Race Relations Bill. David Lammy MP talks about the fear that the speech created amongst his family at the time, becoming part of the wallpaper of his childhood.BBC sounds archive on 4
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Witness History
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The fire killed 13 people on the night in 1981 and was believed by some to be a racist attack. Amidst frustration at the political and media indifference shown towards the loss of 13 young black lives, political activist Leila Hassan Howe helped organise The Black People’s Day of Action – marking a significant point in Black British history. world service witness history
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Black and British a Forgotten History
David Olusoga Historian explores the enduring relationship between Britain and people whose origins lie in Africa.
TV BBC Iplayer 48 mins
David explores the business of slavery and remembers the black sailors who fought for Britain at Trafalgar,
a Georgian boxing superstar and the men and women who crossed continents in pursuit of freedom.
TV BBC Iplayer 59 mins
David explores the Victorian moral crusade against slavery. He finds out how Queen Victoria came to have a black god-daughter, why the mill workers of Rochdale stood in solidarity with enslaved Africans in the American South, and remembers the victims of a tragedy in Jamaica.
TV BBC IPlayer 59 mins
David concludes his series with the three African kings who stood up to empire, an irresistible crooner, race riots in Liverpool and the shaping of black British identity in the 20th century.
TV Iplayer 59 mins
Black British the history we are not taught in schools
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A British lynching
The tragic story of a British lynching that took place during the 1919 race riots.
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Whitewashing
Looks at how many black subjects who fought in World War One had their stories white-washed out of the history books.
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A forgotten regiment
Historian Olivette Otele explores the untold story of a black regiment in World War One.
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Profit and Loss
What has been largely forgotten is that abolition came at a price. The government of the day took the extraordinary step of compensating the slave owners for loss of their ‘property’, as Britain’s slave owners were paid £17bn in today’s money, whilst the slaves received nothing.
TV BBC Iplayer 56 mins
The price of freedom
Of the 46,000 names in the 1834 compensation records, 3,000 lived in Britain, yet they owned half of the slaves across the empire and pocketed half of the compensation money. These include members of the clergy and of the House of Lords. The records also show that at the point of abolition, more than 40 per cent of all the slave owners were women.
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How black immigrants who made Britain their home came face to face with the government’s ‘hostile environment’. David Olusoga exposes the secret files behind the Windrush scandal.
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India and British colonialism
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Norwell Roberts joined the Metropolitan police in 1967. He was put forward as a symbol of progressive policing amid ongoing tensions between the police and ethnic minorities in the capital. But behind the scenes, he endured years of racist abuse from colleagues within the force. Norwell Roberts speaks about growing up in Britain and his determination to be a pioneer in the police force. World service witness history audio 9 mins
Black and Blue
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Training the police to patrol each other
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Yvonne Conolly was made headteacher of Ringcross Primary school in North London in 1969. She had moved to the UK from Jamaica just a few years earlier and quickly worked her way up the teaching profession. She faced racist threats when she first took up the post but refused to allow them to define her relationship with the children she taught. World service witness history
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In November 1978, Viv Anderson became the first black footballer to play a full England international. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Anderson had to endure racial abuse from opposing fans to achieve his dream of reaching the very top of the professional game. He went on to win the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest and to become Sir Alex Ferguson’s first signing at Manchester United. World service witness history
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In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament. The daughter of first generation immigrants she was one of only four black MPs elected that day.
World service witness history
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Forty years ago this month, Viv Anderson made his debut for England against Czechoslovakia – the first black player to play for his country. Former footballer Clark Carlisle looks back at the challenges black players faced at a time when racist abuse from the terraces – often from their own fans – and insults within the dressing room were a regular occurrence. Some, like Cyrille Regis, chose to respond by ignoring the insults and death threats and by “putting the ball in the back of the net”. But should he and others have done more to stand up against the abuse?
Through archive and new interviews with those who lived through it – including former players like Garth Crooks, Paul Davis, Paul Mortimer and Paul Canoville – as well as his own personal experiences, Clark Carlisle examines the difficult choices black players faced and asks whether the issue of racism in football is really a thing of the past.
From the courts to the jobs market, AI is influencing decisions that have a big impact on people’s lives. Researchers now believe that not all people are treated equally by some algorithms. They’ve found potential bias – influenced by race, class and gender – can have an impact on the decisions that computers make. Some programmers, computer scientists and entrepreneurs hope to fight this bias, using the technology that created it in the first place.
World service people fixing the world
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Instead of pointing fingers and tearing each other down, what if we discovered how to create a world that is better for all of us? Justin Michael Williams is focused on how we can heal our social divides by engaging in thorny, messy, but very necessary conversations. The key lies in calling each other forward, rather than just calling out.
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Three people who’ve witnessed the rise of Sinophobia first hand and seen it damage not only their livelihoods, but also their families. They explain why they’re not prepared to stay silent, as was often the case for previous generations, and how they plan to use food in the fight against racism and ignorance. world service the food chain
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During World War Two, thousands of Chinese sailors and engineers served in the British Merchant Navy, keeping supplies flowing into the port of Liverpool and risking their lives in crossings of the Atlantic. Many settled in the port city and started families with local women but, after fighting ended in 1945, the British authorities began forcing them to leave. Simon Watts talks to Yvonne Foley, whose Chinese father was pressured to return to Shanghai, never to be seen again. World Service witness history
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one step in tackling racism
In a step towards becoming an actively anti-racist church, Quakers will cease to name a room in their London offices after William Penn.
Quakers were totally immersed in the slave trade – both as owners and abolitionists – and are working today to understand how early Quakers like Penn reconciled their values with benefitting from the barbaric trade… read the article here
#DecolonizeConservation:
survival international
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Who will suffer if 30% of Earth is “protected”? It won’t be those who have overwhelmingly caused the climate crisis, but rather indigenous and other local people in the Global South who play little or no part in the environment’s destruction. Kicking them off their land to create Protected Areas won’t help the climate:
Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the natural world and an essential part of human diversity that is a key to protecting biodiversity. At the next Convention on Biological Diversity summit, world leaders plan to agree turning 30% of the Earth into “Protected Areas” by 2030
Excavates the Commonwealth of Nation’s 19th Century origins in the British Empire and its formal institution in 1949 as a post-colonial worldwide network of states ‘free and equal’ within the organisation. Some have joked that the long shadow of its colonial origins has made it the ‘after-care service of Empire’. And with Her Majesty the Queen as its Head, the Commonwealth in the 1980s and 1990s became a powerful tool in the pursuit of majority rule in Zimbabwe and South Africa. But since then it has struggled to clearly define itself for the closely interconnected 21st Century. Whose common wealth and for who? World service the documentary
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Prof. Corinne Fowler: Colonial Countryside History learning activities
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Black Tudors
Until now the story of the Africans who lived and died in sixteenth-century England has remained untold…
Corrine Fowler unpacking the colonial countryside
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Thinking in colour: Passing is a term that originally referred to light skinned African Americans who decided to live their lives as white people. In a strictly segregated society, life on the other side of the colour line could be easier. But it came at a price. Here, Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University, explores stories of racial passing through the prism of one of his favourite books, Passing, by Nella Larsen. The 1929 novella brought the concept into the mainstream. It tells the story of two friends; both African-American though one ‘passes’ for white. It’s one of Gary Younge’s, favourite books, for all that it reveals about race, class and privilege. Hear three extraordinary personal accounts, each a journey towards understanding racial identity, and belonging.
