The lyrics illustrate what it means to grow up young, black and deprived on the fortress like council estates of London.
Jessica Huntley and Angela Davis at the Keskidee Centre, London, (c.1975).
Courtesy of Michael McMillan/Huntley Archives at London Metropolitan Archives
Cricket was a significant bridge between England and ‘home’ in the Caribbean, making the sport an important part of the black Atlantic cultural exchange.
Unlike the Windrush, the SS Ormonde docked in Liverpool without ceremony or welcome.
National Archives
A paper trail, both typed and handwritten, documents Cummings’ dogged efforts to secure accommodations and resources for the Windrushers on a time crunch.
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.
Lovers Rock from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series explored the music and Blues party scene of London in the 1970s.
BBC/McQueen Limited/Parisa Taghizadeh
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.