Gerry was a life-long campaigner for children’s education rights and an unwavering supporter of all our struggles. Having been a former headteacher and Principal Education Officer at the Community Relations Commission/Commission for Race Equality, he helped to establish the Working Group Against Racism in Children’s Resources and thirteen years ago invited me and a couple
To celebrate the fact that the late Manning Marable has been awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history for his ground-breaking book, Malcolm X – a life of reinvention, Race & Class makes available for free the seminal articles that Professor Marable wrote on the politics of the black working class in the US. Manning
The Institute of Race Relations is releasing a free download of A. Sivanandan’s landmark essay, ‘From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain’, first published in Race & Class in 1981. Detailing the resistance of black communities to the discrimination of the British state, Sivanandan reminds us throughout that acts of resistance are
A book on black British strugglers opens up new vistas. The other week I wandered down to Paradise Square, a vestige of Victorian Sheffield where the Chartists held their tempestuous meetings over a century and a half ago. There, on those cobbles, the black revolutionary William Cuffay, his parents from St. Kitts but he himself
A new resource on Gypsies and Travellers written by young children. Gypsy and Traveller children living at Waterside Park in Worcester have produced their own book, A Kushtie Place to Live – don’t judge us until you know us. Their photos and captions illustrate where and how they live, what they like to do and
A lecture on racial and religious prejudice in twelfth and thirteenth century European writing. Tuesday 13 March 2012, 6-7.30pm Senate House third floor, room S349, Russell Square, London WC1E 7HU Speaking: Tessa Hosking – author of Medieval Britain Related links See more Black and Asian Studies Seminars
Launch of the Action for ESOL Manifesto. Saturday 3 March 2012, 12pm UCU head office, Carlow Street, London NW1 7LH Related links Action for ESOL
The seventh annual Huntley conference will explore the use of the arts as a form of cultural resistance. Saturday 18 February 2012, 10-4.30pm London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB Speakers include: Colin Prescod – Institute of Race Relations Winston Trew Roshini Kempadoo – Fowokan George Kelly Jean Joseph
A seminar by Miranda Kaufmann. Tuesday 13 December 2011, 6-7.30pm University of London Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN Speaker: Miranda Kaufmann Related links Black and Asian Studies Association Institute of Commonwealth Studies
A blue plaque will be placed for community activist Frank Crichlow at the former site of the Mangrove restaurant. Sunday 4 December 2011, 1pm 8 All Saints Road, London W11 1HH The unveiling will include past friends and colleagues including the Crichlow Family, His Excellency Garvin Nicholas, Dr Gus John, Darcus Howe, Mayor Julie Mills,
