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Sung by the Jamaican High Commission’s Children’s choir for Prime Minister Andrew Holness – average age 7. These children are the descendants today of Windrush Pioneers who came to England between 1948 and 1972. Lyrics: This is the 1940s The Journey has begun This is the 1940s The ship was so much fun. This is […]
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Windrush 2020 An excellent resource and teaching aid, authored by Kandace Chimbiri. Although written primarily for children, this well researched book has been lovingly prepared with illustrations and well chosen anecdotes from some of the Windrush passengers including the late Sam King, Allan Wilmot and Lord Kitchener. It is an easy read but lends itself […]
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Philip Stephen spent 15 years trying to secure British citizenship – despite arriving in the UK on a Commonwealth passport which stated he had the right to live and work in the country. Born in St Lucia, he travelled here with his seven-year-old sister in 1967, to join their parents in Huddersfield, where they had […]
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Black British people have enriched our national life beyond measure, and their contribution can be felt in every facet of society, including business and commerce, culture, the arts and sport. Black history in Britain is a story of resilience and ingenuity. It is the story of ordinary people overcoming extraordinary odds, time and again, to […]
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Joy Sigaud In support of the UN International Decade for People of African Descent, Borders Literature have created a children’s book club to be launched on 17th June 2020. A compilation of reading lists designed to educate and inspire children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old in the diasporas worldwide and cross […]
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Joy Sigaud. As a publisher and editor we have been highlighting the dreadful plight of the victims of the Windrush for some years. I commissioned this article, written by journalist Ciara Leeming for another publication in 2019. The story was first published in The Big Issue and yet we are still hearing the same stories. […]
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Scotland’s top university, St Andrews, established in 1413, has formally apologised to the BAME community in the wake of worldwide protests lead by the Black Lives Matter movement. The protests began as an outright condemnation of the murder of Black man George Floyd in Minneapolis last month and has since seen a tidal wave of […]
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A woman of many talents, award winning descendant of the first Windrush pioneers, Joyce Fraser is the founder of the charity Black Heroes Foundation. Here she speaks frankly to Joy Sigaud about some of her personal experiences as a child of the Windrush Generation and the making of the acclaimed film, The Story of Sam […]
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By Joy Sigaud In 2018 I interviewed architect of the Hostile Environment programme former PM Theresa May about the policies and problems affecting some of the Windrush Generation and their descendants. Who would have thought that in 2020 we would be facing the same problems and even worse in some instances. People have now died, […]
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Windrush 2020 By Joy Sigaud Inspired by one of the shocking stories from the Windrush Scandal. After 50 years in the UK, Anthony Bryan, played by Patrick Robinson is wrongfully detained by the Home Office and threatened with deportation. BBC One Monday 8th June 8.30pm The turmoil and heartache of the Windrush Scandal goes […]
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Five times French national champion, Canadian born pair skater Vanessa James and Morgan’s stunning performance to The Sound of Silence which was a hit song written by Simon and Garfunkel in 1964, performed here by Disturbed in 2017. Watch the film clip here By Sybil Kretzmer main photo courtesy CNW. Film clip you tube.
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By Joy Sigaud The Windrush Foundation was founded in 1996 by the late Sam B. King and Arthur Torrington CBE to honour the first wave of British subjects who arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and to promote good community relations. It has been pivotal in raising general awareness of the many contributions […]
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Ensuring Covid 19 Does Not Impact The Celebration of Black Talent Leading the way in so many arenas and following the devastating impact of Covid 19 on all sectors, not least the theatre and performing arts, Black British Theatre Awards, BBTA, are pressing ahead. Opening up no less than four new nomination categories, in addition […]
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By Baroness Floella Benjamin I’m now a Vice President of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), something I know my beloved mother would have been so proud of. I have been invited as a guest to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the last 30 years and I always took my mother with me when she […]
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Jamaican born and proud of it, Lady Colin Campbell, daughter of a prominent Jamaican merchant, has penned yet another book. Whether she is considered a royal humbug or self-appointed scribe for posterity, it cannot be denied that she continues to attract unprecedented attention and is frequently called upon by the national media for her insight […]
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