Live: Black British Rebels - Black History Month event

🎥 Live online Black History Month event discussing Black British Rebels with:

• Hassan Mahamdallie, playwright and author of Black British Rebels
• Brian Richardson, author of Say It Loud: Marxism & the Fight Against Racism
• Elizabeth Adofo, anti-racist activist
• Moyra Samuels, Grenfell justice campaigner
• Zak Cochrane, anti-racist activist with Love Music Hate Racism
• Talat Ahmed, lecturer in South Asian history

This event will be broadcast live on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram

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The Black Lives Matter movement has put the issues of decolonisation and recognition of Black history to the fore, and rightly so. There is a hidden but unbroken thread that runs through the history of the British working class, stretching back and forward over 300 years—the black radicals that led British workers into the struggle for freedom, justice and a better world.

Olaudah Equiano, William Cuffay, Claudia Jones, Jayaben Desai - at key moments in the British working class struggle for rights and freedom black leaders have emerged.

At a time when the racism and brutality of system has been laid bare, these Black British rebels remind us of the radical struggles that changed things in the past.

This #BlackHistoryMonth event will be discussing the legacy of each of these figures, and why we should them today.