Essays

Black Dynamite: Satirising Blaxploitation

I am no film critic; I do not know exactly what makes a good animated tv series nor am I an expert on the blaxploitation genre by any...

Misrepresenting Reparations: How the Straw Man Stifles Debate

Reparations is a discussion that combines a number of sensitive issues in the UK and is almost always met with the same overwhelming...

Poetry and Remembrance

‘Black Death’, the systematic murder of black people in the Western world, whatever you want to call it, has been at the forefront of...

Soundtracking the Movement

Say it Loud! (I’m black and I’m proud!): Soundtracking the movement It’s hard not to get emotive about soul. It is a genre, a movement, a...

'Revolutionary Suicide’: Huey Newton and the Black Panther Mantra

The Black Panthers had a very specific iconography in contemporary press coverage, one that has endured despite all the work which has...

Three Poets

‘recently a very close friend of mine declared it would take us another twenty years to be really independent. Was he right? I am afraid...

‘Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon’- On Violence in Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth

On the 7th June 2020 the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was spray painted, toppled and rolled into Bristol Harbour during public...