Black History Walks, Talks & Films
13 Years of Education Through
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Black History is longer than a month..
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| Watch Legends of Ska Trailer |
Without Ska there would be no Reggae ! Legends of Ska starring Chris Rock, Prince Buster, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosario Dawson, Alton Ellis, Skatalites. Q &A with director and artistes Saturday 4 April, 2pm to 5.00pm £6.50 BFI Southbank, Waterloo
In the early 60s Ska introduced a unique sound that would transform popular music the world over. Its birthplace, history and rich cast of performers are presented in this feel-good documentary. Q and A with the film's director and a star-studded panel of music pioneers including Owen Gray, Rico Rodriguez and Freddie Notes. Book £6.50 tickets in advance from www.bfi.org.uk
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| Nubian Nights out at 400 Years of African Female Resistance leaders @BFI Southbank |
This event is another feature of the
African Odysseys film programme which for 8 years has screened rare African/Caribbean films at the British Film Institute on London's South Bank. The films are sourced and selected by the African Caribbean Consultative group which is comprised of grassroots organisations with a history of pro-active Black film screenings. The BFI is the only cinema in the country to offer monthly screenings of African/Caribbbean films. The films are often complemented with talks, workshops and Q and A's. Join the Black History Walks mail list HERE for regular updates.
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| How Jamaicans ended Slavery: Rebellion 1832 Saturday 18 April, 3pm to 6.00pm G.03, University of Westminster, Little Titchfield street Tube: Oxford Circus
Click HERE to book your free seat.
Event starts at 3pm, latecomers may not get a seat.400 people already booked. Donations accepted on the day. Sam 'Daddy' Sharpe is the man who inspired 60, 000 Africans to rise up against British slavemasters in Jamaica. At a time when Black people were killed just for learning to read,( forget phones and facebook) and not allowed to leave their plantation this achievement is incredible! How did he do it ? Who helped him. What was the effect ?
The rebellion started off in December 1831 as general strike but carried on into 1832 as an armed uprising. The very next year, the British rushed through legislation to end slavery. Was it for fear that..if freedom was not granted soon on British terms, then it would be taken on African terms as was done in Haiti...?
This audio-visual session by historian and author Paul Crooks will cover:
- Who was Sam Sharpe ?
- African genius and strategic planning
- African resistance under slavery
- Comparsions between Nelson Mandela and Sam Sharpe: Leadership, Motivation and Mobilisation while under oppression
- How is he and the rebellion remembered ?
- What can be learned from Sharpes organisation ?
Plus, Black History Walks will cover:
- White supremacy and its response to the Haitian revolution
- Wilberforce and his racism
- 15 ways in which Africans resisted slavery apart from armed uprisings Plus Q and A
Paul Crooks is the author of two books Ancestors and a Tree Without Roots (about tracing African-Caribbean family trees) A www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk production |
- Medical Apartheid : 400 Years of European Experiments on African Bodes
Friday 10th April 6.30pm Blue Room, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road SE1 Prompt start. £3.00 donation. Click HERE to book your seat
A review of the scientific experiments and research performed on Black
people to refine various drugs and medical treatments for use with white people. We also detail chemical and biological warfare. 
This presentation will draw on Harriet Washington's book of the same name, various documentation from World War 1 and 2, Aboriginal history, Vietnam, US Prisons and Porton Down.
It will cover:
*Piracy, Poisons and East Africa
*Radioactive People: North Africa and the Pacific
*Birth and Crowd Control: The South African Solution, Project Coast
*National Security Memorandum 200
*Vic Mackie and Congressional Inquiries
*The 'War on Drugs', Haiti, Jamaica, USA
*The Mau Mau, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan
Presented by www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk
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 Call of Duty: Advanced Mental Warfare, The Black History Breakdown Saturday 11th April 3pm to 6pm. Venue near Oxford Street tube. Click HERE to book
Computer games are making more money than some movies nowadays (C.O.D sales have topped $10 Billion so far, the Avengers movie made $1.5 billion) Producers and actors are increasingly selling stories to millions of eager consumers using this format but what sort of stories are being told ? We already know that film is an extremely powerful medium which often contains blatant and hidden messages. So how do these cinematic, high defintion, interactive video games relate to Black people and their history ? Are they a help or a hindrance ?
In this interactive presentation we will cover:
- The Military Industrial Complex. What it is and how it works
- Radicalisation via gaming: War as Culture and the Culture of War
- Propaganda and recruitment at the movies, then and now
- Brainwashing the youth: London, Somalia, Nigeria, Haiti
- Racism and Africa in the video gaming industry
- Examples of Real politics disguised as Fantasy
- Black Scientists and Inventors
This event will start at 3.00pm, latecomers will miss out. Those of you who have experienced our movie breakdowns will find this very revealing
Free entry if booked via Eventbrite, donations accepted on the day . Click
HERE to book
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| Back again by popular demand ! Professor Gus John in conversation with Margaret Busby Suday 11 April, 2pm to 5.00pm Phoenix Cinema,High Road Finchley 100 tickets already gone 150 left DO NOT DELAY book your tickets NOW HERE Professor Gus John on 50 years of African-British people fighting for equality in education, housing, employment, policing and criminal justice, performing arts, religion and political representation. The dialogue is richly illustrated with fantastic archive clips from film and television of Britain's untold Civil Rights struggle. Previously hosted at the BFI Southbank as part of its African Odysseys strand, this event comes to North London due to huge demand.
Archive footage includes coverage of: the Grenada Revolution, the Windrush generation and the fight for comprehensive Race Equality legislation in the 1960s, 70s and 2000s, Scrap Sus Campaign, Anti Apartheid movement and the New Cross Massacre. It also covers the campaign against labelling African/Caribbean children as Educationally Sub Normal and the disproportionate number of Black British boys being excluded from school. Those struggles are highlighted by modern interviews with veteran activists who led the various campaigns.
There will be a short introduction, followed by the archive screening and then the Q&A.
Born in Grenada, 11 March 1945, Gus John has been involved in education, schooling, community development and change management in Britain since the middle 1960s. He is an associate professor and honorary fellow at the UCL Institute of Education, Director of Gus John Consultancy Limited and of All Africa Advisors. A www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk production |
 How to brainwash the Youth and Make Them Act like Fools ! Friday 17th April 6pm to 9.30pm. Room B404,Cruciform Building,UCL, Gower Street,WC1E 6BT. £4.00 ticket entry Here to book
An in-your-face seminar aimed at young adults to illustrate how they are conditioned via Hollywood movies, music videos, computer games and advertising to act dumb and love it. This presentation uses popular and mainstream culture combined with a Black history perspective. White Saviours, Transformers, Call of Duty, Disney, Lil Wayne, Futurama, 300, GTA, Nikki Minaj, Mike Brown vs Chris Brown, Captain Phillips, Captain America, Pirates of Caribbean, all make an appearance
'I have been meaning to write you all week to thank you for the informative and thought-provoking session you held for ACD students last week. It was tremendous.What was really satisfying is that you held their attention throughout the 3 hour session even in the not ideal situation of being cramped into the foyer space due to the projector being taken by another organisation. Brenda King, African Caribbean Diversity Group
I'm a student who is part of the ACDiversity programme and you came in to talk to us about the issue of 'How to brainwash the youth and make them look like idiots' This was so so powerful and helped shape my view on what the media feeds me. I have a few friends around my age, I'm eighteen by the way, who I believe will truly benefit from this as I think it needs to be seen by A LOT more youth who are mature enough to take it in and understand. Peter Adefioye
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| Coming Soon..The Black History of Superman !. |
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African Sisters get ready to mash up the slavemasters !! Coming Soon...!!!
