awareness acknowledgement acceptance action
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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
podcasts 9 episodes
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
video 4.41 mins
TV BBC Iplayer 63 mins
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TV BBC Iplayer 127 mins
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
Witness History
audio 9 mins
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witness history
audio 9 mins
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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
TV IPlayer 8 mins
A British lynching
The tragic story of a British lynching that took place during the 1919 race riots.
TV IPlayer 5.48 mins
Whitewashing
Looks at how many black subjects who fought in World War One had their stories white-washed out of the history books.
TV BBC Iplayer 6.22mins
A forgotten regiment
Historian Olivette Otele explores the untold story of a black regiment in World War One.
TV BBC Iplayer 7 mins
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.
TV BBC Iplayer 60 mins
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.
TV BBC Iplayer 58 mins
Witness History audio 9 mins
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Witness History audio 9 mins
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India and British colonialism
video 59 mins
video 59 mins
series one three episodes audio 29 mins
series four three episodes audio 28 mins
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video 3.28
video 48 sec
video 15.28 mins
audio 9.27 mins
World service people fixing the world
Getting rid of AI bias
audio 23 mins
Black and Blue
audio 28 mins
Training the police to patrol each other
audio 26 mins
