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Sep 3, 2020
5 min

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

Fahad Al-Amoudi

Jul 30, 2020
7 min

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...

Fahad Al-Amoudi

Jul 16, 2020
4 min

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...

Fahad Al-Amoudi

Jul 9, 2020
3 min

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

Fahad Al-Amoudi

Jun 22, 2020
3 min

'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...

Fahad Al-Amoudi

Jun 17, 2020
6 min

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

Fahad Al-Amoudi

Jun 15, 2020
6 min

‘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...

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