John Hawkins effectively set the pattern that became known as the English slave trade triangle.
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February 13, 2021
VIDEO: THE RACIAL CONSEQUENCES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK
When fighting insurgents in Sudan in his early career, Mr Churchill boasted of killing three “savages.”
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February 11, 2021
CLIP: White views of immigrants to the UK, 1964
The report includes a secret recording of an Indian man refused a hair cut from a local barber.
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February 9, 2021
UK: COLOURED WORKERS – MINISTRY OF LABOUR STAFF ASSOCIATION MEMORANDUM TO THE TUC (TRADES UNION CONGRESS), 1954
“It should be remembered that what they would accept as good living conditions are those which might well be much below a satisfactory standard for white people.”
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February 7, 2021
KELSO COCHRANE MURDER & THE AFTERMATH, 1959
Kelso Cochrane moved to London from Antigua in 1954, where he settled in Notting Hill and worked as a carpenter. He planned to study law and was saving money earned from his work to pay for his tuition fees.
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February 7, 2021
THE NOTTING HILL UPRISING, 1958
Crowds of white youths, reportedly numbering 400, chased the Caribbean population in the area. Petrol bombs and milk bottles were launched as missiles, and some rioters armed themselves with iron bars and butcher’s knives. There were counter-attacks by Black youths similarly armed in self defense.
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February 7, 2021
CLIP: NOTTING HILL UPRISING, UK, 1958
Tensions between members of the white working class and the new African Caribbean residents broke into open violence in 1958 and 1959 with attacks by white youths (‘Teddy Boys’) on Caribbean people and properties, followed by counter-attacks by members of the Caribbean population.
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February 7, 2021
BURMA ROAD UPRISING, BAHAMAS, 1942
As importantly, they joined with a growing number of political activists to demand independence from Great Britain. That independence finally came thirty- one years later on July 10, 1973.
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January 17, 2021
New Cross Fire: Forty years on from the New Cross fire, what has changed for black Britons?
New Cross is fundamental because it contains all the features of racism that Black people in Britain have long suffered: the racial violence, police abuse, neglect by the state; in turn, it tells us of the community’s resistance. Forty years on, recalling the events seems vital, especially in this moment of renewed optimism after the Black Lives Matter protests, because the legacies of New Cross still resonate.
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January 10, 2021
Barbara Blake-Hannah: how Britain’s first black female TV reporter was forced off our screens
Her own place in that history is being reclaimed. This year, the annual British Journalism awards awarded the inaugural Barbara Blake-Hannah prize to the Independent’s Kuba Shand-Baptiste. The award for up-and-coming minority ethnic journalist also had the coolest prize – to fly out to Jamaica to meet Blake-Hannah.