Caribbean History articles
Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and The Great War Black Poppies an in-depth look at the very neglected subject of the Black British experience in the First World War. Published 4th August 2014, this £12.99 paperback original is lest we forget the ‘quiet storm’ of the forgotten black British voices of history. In 1914 there […]
The Drum Hosts Remembrance Day Service To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and as precursor to The Drum’s official Black History Month programme of events in October, The Drum is pleased to host a Remembrance Day Service in partnership with Recognize and the Why Are West Indians Project […]
The Other Georgian Story Glimpse into the parallel lives of black people living in the Caribbean, the Americas and Georgian Britain, ‘invisible’ to Kentian society against a backdrop of Enlightenment, the transatlantic slave trade, and the Industrial Revolution. View films; take part in a hands-on sugar campaign workshop with artist Jackie Mwanza; listen to historian […]
The 1983 massacre at Fort Rupert, Grenada, is explored in this extraordinary documentary. On 25 October 1983, Ronald Reagan sent 8,000 members of the US Armed Forces to invade Grenada, an island with a population of just over 100,000. They were responding to the execution of prime minister Maurice Bishop at Fort Rupert on 19 […]
12 Years A Slave is available to pre-order NOW and will release on Blu-ray and DVD on 12 May 2014 Steve McQueen’s universally acclaimed masterpiece portraying an unflinching account of slavery and the power of hope is the most important film this year. Having dazzled the critics and won an amazing 130 awards so far […]