This impressive installation is a showcase of the roots and routes within the development of Black British music and is a must-see for all lovers of music.
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In an era when mainstream radio and major record labels often ignored Black music, these stores provided a crucial alternative.
The Missing Thread is a careful and honest curation of black identity and displacement.
The lyrics illustrate what it means to grow up young, black and deprived on the fortress like council estates of London.
Community-produced newsletters informed newcomers of the local shops, clubs and bars that were most welcoming to Caribbean migrants.
Cricket was a significant bridge between England and ‘home’ in the Caribbean, making the sport an important part of the black Atlantic cultural exchange.
Hundreds of Caribbean migrants arrived on the Ormonde and Almanzora, yet their historic importance is often overlooked.
A paper trail, both typed and handwritten, documents Cummings’ dogged efforts to secure accommodations and resources for the Windrushers on a time crunch.
There were around 5,000 black Georgians and more black Victorians so black Dickens characters are historically feasible.
Black British women have been staging plays in recent years about Britain’s role in slavery, a history the country is too eager to forget.
The lie of the land: Britain’s hidden legacies of slavery in Eugene Palmer’s paintings.
Abolition in the UK tends to focus on the work of Yorkshireman William Wilberforce but there were many Black abolitionists whose tireless work has been forgotten.
Centred around a Blues Party in London, the second film from the Small Axe anthology captured the excitement of setting up a party but missed things about sound system culture in the UK.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Creative Industries, University of East London
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Deputy Director of The Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University
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Reader in Creative Writing College of Business, Arts & Social Sciences, Brunel University of London
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Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Manchester
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Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
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Associate Professor of Media Sociology, Lehman College, CUNY
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Lecturer in Contemporary Art, SOAS, University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Music Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, University of Westminster
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Professor of Black Theatre and Performance, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of History, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound, University of Greenwich
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Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge