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#BLM ‘a good breedin’ ‘oman sho did fetch de money,’ by Aisha Djelid
On the 10th January 1859 a court in Charleston, South Carolina, advertised the sale of Betty, a twenty-five-year-old enslaved woman. Betty was a ‘breeding woman,’ meaning that slaveholders valued Betty for being young, strong, healthy and, crucially, fertile. Advertised as a … Continue reading
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#BHM ‘Beyond the Reggae Bassline’ by Professor Matt Worley
For Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee, whose death was announced as I wrote this blog (1941–2020) I first heard Reggae as a child, the rhythms sending me to sleep as a I lay on a camp-bed in Nottingham. My Grandma lived on … Continue reading
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Tagged Backs Records, Beyond the Reggae Bassline, Big Youth, Bunny Lee, Bunny Striker Lee, Burning Spear, Carl Tracey, Grime, Jachimiak, June Ried, Junior Murvin, Kenny Monrose, Les Back, Lucy Robinson, lynda Rosenior-Patten, Martyn Glynn, Matt Worley, Melissa Cheman, MPLA, Paul Gilroy, Peter Hughes, Police and Theices, Pressure Drop, Professor Matt Worley, Ranking Miss P, Reggae, Robert Beckford, Roxy Club, Satta Massagana, Selecter, Smiley Culture, Stan's side, The Specials, The Sysytem is Sound: Narratives from Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline, Their Satanic Majesteys, Toots
#BLM Finding ‘sanctuary’ with the US Army, by Liz Barnes
Edwin Forbes, ‘The sanctuary,’ ca. 1876, Morgan collection of Civil War drawings, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC. https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.20773/ During the American Civil War (1861-1865), hundreds of thousands of enslaved men, women, and children fled farms and plantations … Continue reading
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#BHM ‘The different meaning of HMT Empire Windrush’ by Dr Daniel Renshaw
On a rainy June morning in the summer of 1948 a British troopship, itself requisitioned from the German navy during the Second World War, arrived at Tilbury docks in Essex, carrying a number of Polish ex-soldiers, some Jamaican pilots who … Continue reading
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Tagged #BHM, #BlackHistoryMonth, #Windrush, BHM, black history, black history month, HMT Empire Windrush, Repatriation
#BHM ‘the backbone of Mau Mau’: Women’s Contributions in Conflict, Kenya by Beth Rebisz
(Photograph taken by author) On 12th September 2015, a memorial in honour of Kenya’s freedom fighters was unveiled in Uhuru Park, Nairobi. The memorial was part of an out-of-court settlement reached between the British government and a group of Kenyans who … Continue reading
