For over 55 years, Elephant and Castle shopping centre has been a recognisable landmark of Lambeth. Before you get to the roundabout, you can always spot the pink elephant first. The pink elephant reminded me of the surrealist hallucinations that…
For the past week the hashtags, #endsars #endsarsbrutality has been trending. What does it mean? SARS is The Special Anti Robbery Squad; it was founded in 1984. It was put into place to protect civilians from armed robbers. However, they…
“Black History is torture porn” – Kanye West This quote was from my man Kanye West. But this was in his old testament phase as I like to call it, when he was producing tracks like All Falls Down, We…
These past few months have been crazy to say the least. Following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, there have been worldwide protests at the treatment of black people and the inequalities we face are also coming to…
Although Black unemployment was high around 1920, the UK authorities made it harder for blacks to gain employment. A measure was put in place that would later be manifested as the Immigration Acts of 1962, 1965, 1968 and 1971. The…
Do you remember the Italian FA’s campaign to combat racism? They launched this after a number of the black players in the league spoke out about the increasing number of racist taunts suffered when playing. I strongly believe that when…
It really grinds my gears when I hear people question if Britain is racist, or if there is ‘still’ racism in Britain? There has always been racism in Britain. Before I was alive and no doubt when I’m gone too.…
The sun never sets on the British Empire.John Wilson, Christopher North” Upon landing in America, Sir Francis Wyatt said “Our first work is expulsion of the savages to gain free range of the country”. The British coexisted with the Natives…
We’ll never understand the true nature of our country if we don’t know everything about it. I try to read as much on the British Empire so that I can truly understand the positives and the negatives. The fact of…
When is a slave not a slave? When they are considered an apprentice! Around the 1830s, Great Britain had finally heard the campaigners and sided with the abolitionists. The government passed the bill to abolish slavery. SUCCESS! Some Brits understood…
