How to Brainwash the Youth and make them..
How to Brainwash the Youth and make them act like Fools ! 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. Scary Movie, Predator,Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne,Futurama, Disney, 300, GTA, Pussycat dolls, Mariah Carey, Nelly, Etana,Lord of the Rings, Pirates of Caribbean, Manhunter all make an appearance
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The Black Image over the centuries..
A very revealing presentation and film which shows how the image of African people has been deliberately altered by Europeans to show negativity. In the 15th century African people were portrayed in European art as noble, sophisticated and intelligent. With the rise of Empire these images were thrown out and replaced with demeaning stereotypes which […]
African British Civil Rights Heroes 1596-2006
The bias in schools gives the impression that racism and civil rights was an American issue and totally ignores the struggles Black British people endured. This presentation will provide the names and achievements of those Black people born or resident here that fought against British racism over the last 400 years. Includes Thomas Peters, Ottobah Cuguano, Robert Wedderburn, Olaudah Equiano, Phyllis Wheatley, Learie Constantine, Bus Boycott 1963, Scrap Sus Campaign,
400 Years of Black Women Resistance Leaders
A three-hour comprehensive sample of African women who resisted invasion, slavery and racist policies. Includes Queen Nzinga,Yaa Asantewa, Claudia Jones, Rosa Parks, Josephine Baker, Doris Pilkington, Mende Nazer, Mavis Best, Dame Joceyln Barrow, Una Marson and many more. Covers UK, North and South America, the Caribbean and Africa
Superman The Black History Breakdown
Man of Steel was one of 2013’s biggest blockbusters but many are unaware of the themes. images and motifs within the whole Superman mythology that link directly into Black History. This two hour movie breakdown goes into The Origins of SupermanProduct PlacementThe concept of the ‘other’ in literatureHollywoods hidden history of discriminationMarvel vs DC Comics […]
How Black People Won World War 2
A detailed and extensive look at the African, Caribbean and Asian war effort with video clips and interviews with black Spitfire & bomber pilots, Nigerian and Somali troops fighting in Burma, black and asian women secret agents, u-boats in the Caribbean and the importance of Africa and India’s raw materials
Thank you so much for coming into our school on Friday. Your talk was really inspiring and so valuable to our students. It was great to see them so engaged’. Rebecca Howard, Canons High School, Queensbury
What were Black people doing in World War 1 ?
Above: packed house at the Imperial war Museum October 2015 An explanation of the crucial role Africa, Asia and the Caribbean played in WW1. Interviews with Jamaican WW1 veterans, West India Regiment in Palestine, black and asian fighter pilots, the Herero genocide, German colonies in Africa and how that affected geography and WW2 “I wanted […]
African Warrior Queen Nzingha. African Odysseys@BFI
Sat 4 July 2 to 5pm British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank Belvedere Road SE1 Tube:Waterloo African Odysseys@BFI Book tickets from BFI Southbank www.bfi.org.uk The African Odysseys film programme has screened rare African/Caribbean films at the British Film Institute on London’s South Bank for the last 8 years. The films are sourced and selected by the African Caribbean […]
The Birth and Legacy of Race Movies in the USA. African Odysseys@BFI
Sat 20 June 2 to 6pm British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank Belvedere Road SE1 Tube:Waterloo African Odysseys@BFI Book tickets from BFI Southbank www.bfi.org.uk The African Odysseys film programme has screened rare African/Caribbean films at the British Film Institute on London’s South Bank for the last 8 years. The films are sourced and selected by the African Caribbean […]
Looking for Love. African Odysseys@BFI
Sat May 23 2 to 5pm British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank Belvedere Road SE1 Tube:Waterloo African Odysseys@BFI Book tickets from BFI Southbank www.bfi.org.uk The African Odysseys film programme has screened rare African/Caribbean films at the British Film Institute on London’s South Bank for the last 8 years. The films are sourced and selected by the African Caribbean […]