The launch of Footprints, a book of poems by radical black poet Peter Blackman. Thursday 17 October 2013, 6.30pm Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS Speakers include: Chris Searle – Editor of the book Colin Prescod – IRR Chair Please RSVP to events@irr.or.uk. Related links Download a flyer for the event
Theme: Managed migration
Blackness in Britain
An interdisciplinary Black Studies conference. Thursday 12 September 2013, 9.30am Newman University, Bartley Green, Birmingham B32 3NT Confirmed keynote speakers: Dr Tracey Reynolds – London South Bank University Dr Robert Beckford – Canterbury Christ Church University Dr Anthony Reddie – Aston University RELATED LINKS Newman University
The Stuart Hall Project
A documentary on cultural theorist Stuart Hall. Friday 6 September 2013 – Thursday 31 October 2013 Multiple venues RELATED LINKS British Film Institute
The shameful ‘Go Home’ campaign
The rhetoric on migrants shows how politicians and the media have created, and embedded, racism in British politics. Recent controversy over the Home Office ’Go Home’ campaign on ‘illegal’ immigrants highlights the way in which politicians try to outdo each other to win over the ‘racist’ electorate in Britain – an electorate they and the
Dealing with the legacies of Dutch slavery
How, asks a Dutch anti-racist, is slavery dealt with in the Netherlands? 2013 marks 150 years since the abolition of slavery in the former Dutch colonies. It’s worth mentioning that the Dutch abolished slavery a while after the British (1833) and French (1848), and only after much resistance. One of the efforts to mark the
Anti-racist convoy
An anti-racist convoy of vans, cars, bikes and motorbikes travelling through London under the slogan of ‘One London Against Hate’. Sunday 1 September 2013, 12-4pm Meeting at Tower Hamlets, London E14 2BG
Pat Guerin: an anti-racist pioneer
On 13 June 2013 our comrade Irish anti-racist activist Pat Guerin died aged 56. Born in Dublin, Pat was second eldest in a family of four. Pat grew up in a caring family giving help and support to his mother who suffered with arthritis and who spent a lot of time in hospital during his
Graham Usher 1958-2013
The staff of the Institute of Race Relations were very saddened to learn of the death of Graham Usher on 8 August. He was, for two decades, one of the most stalwart of contributors to our quarterly journal, Race & Class, illuminating for our readers the struggle in Palestine and the machinations of the ‘peace
Responses to the government’s ‘go home’ campaign
Anti-racists are mobilising against the government’s ‘summer of attacks on immigrants’. The Home Office has ramped up enforcement measures against ’irregular’ migrants, with its ‘go home’ campaign and immigration spot checks at stations. It is also ‘consulting’ on access to healthcare, undocumented working and housing for migrants. In response, various organisations and groups are organising,
Nothing about us without us
Below we reproduce a call from the Edge Fund for people to join its Advisory Group to help make it truly representative. The Edge Fund was initiated by a group of philanthropists and activists in early 2012 to explore how funds could be distributed so as to devolve the power of donors and create real