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For Black History Month 2022 Editions Media have made an online version of Jamaicans in Britain available for purchase in digital format. Lambeth Council purchase copies of Jamaicans in Britain: A Legacy of Leadership book for all the libraries in the borough! Published by Editions Media Limited, BLACK HISTORY MONTH and WINDRUSH LEGACY publications, […]
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Editions Media has learnt that the Windrush Foundation is the recipient of a major award to lead a variety of WINDRUSH 75 programmes in 2023, thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The substantial award of over £180,000 will go some way to funding a national project called ‘Celebrating Windrush Pioneers’ which will celebrate the […]
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By Joy Sigaud WINDRUSH DAY 2022 The National Monument unveiled at Waterloo Station London attended by HRH Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Members of the Windrush generation and their families joined HRH Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at London Waterloo Station today to witness the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument. Designed by renowned Jamaican […]
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Celebrating Windrush Day 2022 Print version available in selected supermarkets whilst stocks last.
Read MoreAs Windrush Day 2022 approaches, scores of events, shows, exhibitions and interactive projects are in the pipeline providing something for all to enjoy. The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUHC) have announced the names of those who have received funding from the Windrush Day Grant Scheme ’22 and commemorative events for Windrush […]
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JAMAICANS IN BRITAIN: A LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP Over 1,000 names, over 500 bios. Co-Author and Editor Joy Sigaud says: “When the project, which was initiated by H.E. Seth Ramocan High Commissioner of Jamaica in London, was handed over to me in 2020, I realised there was so much more to be said. They already […]
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From today community groups can bid for funds to celebrate the Windrush Generation and their contribution to British society. The government has funded more than 130 Windrush Day projects since 2019 and this year’s scheme encourages proposals that tell the Windrush story in unique and exciting ways Community projects celebrating the Windrush generation will be […]
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Jamaicans in Britain: A Legacy of Leadership Co- authored and curated by Joy Sigaud The long-awaited coffee table book Jamaicans in Britain: A Legacy of Leadership, published by Editions Media on behalf of the Jamaican High Commission, has finally come to fruition and will be officially launched in March 2022. The book gives a deep […]
Read MoreJamaican reggae music is on the Unesco World Heritage List. Inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, to great jubilation in 2018 after much campaigning and lobbying led by the Minister of Sports, Youth and Culture, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange. Borne and forged in the ghettos of Western Kingston Jamaica, the […]
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According to the organisers, hundreds of people are expected to gather in Windrush Square in Brixton, London, at the African & Caribbean War Memorial on Sunday November 14th for the fifth annual Remembrance Parade. The event will commemorate the two million African and Caribbean soldiers who served in World War I and World […]
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ALLAN CHARLES WILMOT (1925 – 2021) Allan volunteered first for the Royal Navy in 1941 when there was a call for volunteer servicemen from Jamaica. He saw an advertisement in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper when he was sixteen and a half years old and the advertisement stated that the British government needed recruits for the […]
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The Black Cultural Archives (BCA) have announced that Managing Director Arike Oke is to step down from 30th October 2021. During her tenure she has overseen the running of the BCA and has seen the organisation set on a firm footing establishing the 2030 Strategy with the board. The most recent feat is the Black […]
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Internationally renowned artist Basil Watson has been selected to design the National Windrush Monument, which will stand at London Waterloo station. The unveiling is expected to take place on Windrush Day, June 22nd 2022. The monument, which is backed by £1 million of government funding, will pay tribute to the dreams, ambition, courage and resilience of the Windrush […]
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Arthur Torrington co-founder of the Windrush Foundation argues that all Caribbean veterans who came for the war effort and remained in Britain should be officially included and recognised under the banner of the Windrush Generation. In 2018 the British government came up with a definition of the ‘Windrush Generation’ as “Caribbean people who arrived […]
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A new series examining three major events that took place in 1981 in the Black British Community UPRISING is the BBC’s New Series From Academy Award Winner Steve McQueen – a vivid and visceral three-part series for BBC One examining three events from 1981: – in January 1981 the New Cross Fire killed 13 black […]
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