The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword by Enrico A Stennett One of the problems for black people residing in the United Kingdom is that they are faced with a News Media who use the printed word in the process of mis-education, not only of the masses but the black people themselves. The printed word […]
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Breaking the Chains Exhibition
Exhibition about Britain and the slave trade ‘Breaking the Chains’, a major exhibition about Britain and the slave trade opened in Bristol on the 23rd April 2007. The exhibition coincided with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, and it will act as the centrepiece of the former major slave-trading port’s commemoration […]
Water Out Of Number Six Please
Water Out Of Number Six Please It was 1947, I arrived at Southampton Docks from my journey from Jamaica, on the ship ‘The Windrush’ I had not been in England long. I had been sleeping rough in bombed houses, because no one would give me a room to rent and I was beginning to smell. […]
Westminster Bicentenary Exhibition
Westminster marks 200th anniversary of abolition of the slave trade Westminster’s Lord Mayor marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade with an exhibition that examines the links between the city and the transatlantic slave trade – including a tribute to a former Westminster resident. Oladuah Equiano became the best known and […]
Will There Ever be a World Where We are Colour Blind?
Racism in the European countries seems to differ from that of the United States and South Africa. England practises the most acute and subtle kind of racism. In other countries victims of racism know where they stand, and how to fight back against the portrayer of one of the most obscene and despicable ideologies any […]