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
Emperor Selassie: Lion of Judah Sat 13.3.10
Twilight Revelations: Episodes in the Life & Times of Emperor Selassie Saturday 13 March 2pm -5.00pm BFI SouthBank Belvedere Road SE1 Tube: Waterloo. www.bfi.org.uk Ethiopia’s last emperor Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975) is to this day revered by the million-strong Rastafarian community. Yemane I Demissie’s documentary shows us the man behind the myth. Mixed with archive […]
Interview with a Veteran, Sat 12 March
Interview with a Veteran Training Room 3 Imperial War Museum 11am-2pm Lambeth Road SE1 Tube: Lambeth North Entry Free: first come first served www.iwm.org.uk The general public are invited to view Saturday School pupils interview 84 year old Jamaican war veterans about their service in World War 2. The event will be filmed […]
Interview with a Veteran, Sat 2 April
Interview with a Veteran Training Room 3 Imperial War Museum 11am-1pm Lambeth Road SE1 Tube: Lambeth North Entry Free: first come first served www.iwm.org.uk The general public are invited to view Saturday School pupils interview 84 year old Jamaican war veterans about their service in World War 2. The event will be filmed […]
Black British Footballers 1890-1990, 23 May
Saturday 23 May 1pm-4.30pm Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1.Tube: Lambeth North. Free entry: First come,first served www.iwm.org.uk Premiere of the new Walter Tull movie plus Q and A with BAFTA award winning director Alrick Riley who also directed Spooks, Hustle and Hotel Babylon. Walter Tull was one of the first black footballers.He was also […]
Mau Mau & History of Kenya, 24 February
Plus Q & A with Kenyans Sunday 24 February 2pm-5.30pmImperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1Tube: Lambeth North.Free entry: First come,first served www.iwm.org.uk Much of the geographic and ethnic divisions currently seen in Kenya were established and encouraged during British colonialism. In February the Kenyan people will sue the British government for human rights abuses commited by […]