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Video-led presentations by history consultant Kwaku w guest speaker Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper highlighting history of police & African youths.
PLEASE NOTE: Date moved to THURSDAY SEP. 30 2021, 6-9pm!!!The edition of this event has Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper focusing on his book and speaking to his experience of police-and-African youth engagement of recent times. The Nov. 8 edition has Bro Cecil Gutzmore providing a historical analysis, based on his long experience of community work, since the late 1960s.
PLEASE NOTE: Date moved to THURSDAY SEP. 30 2021, 6-9pm!!!The edition of this event has Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper focusing on his book and speaking to his experience of police-and-African youth engagement of recent times. The Nov. 8 edition has Bro Cecil Gutzmore providing a historical analysis, based on his long experience of community work, since the late 1960s.You can book individually or get 30% off if you book the first 11 of the events in one go, by booking MondayXHS2021 1st 11 Events Discount Hub here. Plus 35% off discount by booking all 13 events in one go here.
PROGRAMME:Sep. 30 Police And The Criminalising Of British African Youths By Numbers. Guest presenter: Black Lives Matter activist and academic Dr Elliott-CooperThis event marks Mangrove Nine @ 51 and is in solidarity with all who were victims of the police's misuse of the sus law powers.
History consultant Kwaku leads with a video mash up presentation that highlights little-known and cause célèbre cases involving the police, the criminal justice system and groups of criminalised African youths, such as Tottenham Court Road Two, Stockwell Six, Oval Four, Mangrove Nine, Waterloo Four, Thornton Heath 15 and Bonfire Night 12.Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper, a young Black Lives Matter activist and academic whose research interests include policing and anti-racism, provides a summary of key points from the video. Dr Elliott-Cooper, who is a board member of The Monitoring Group, then speaks to his experience in dealing with youths and the police, and his book 'Black Resistance To British Policing'. Followed by a discussion moderated by community activist Nana Asante.In solidarity with all who have been victims of the police's misuse of the sus law.There are the other events and Sessions. Check https://AfricanHistoryPlus.eventbrite.com to book.
Each event is led by history consultant Kwaku with an exclusive mash up video, sometimes supported by ether a guest speaker and/or special guest(s), and moderated by political and community activist Nana Asante.
You can book individually or get 30% off if you book the first 11 of the events in one go, by booking MondayXHS2021 1st 11 Events Discount Hub here. Plus 35% off discount by booking all 13 events in one go here.
Sep. 30 Police And The Criminalising Of British African Youths By Numbers guest presenter: Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper
Oct. 4 THE Reggae Fun, History, Music, Quiz Prizes Event! guest presenter: Colin 'CeeBee' Brown
Oct. 11 Interrogating Language 4: Identity, Decolonising, Reparations; Araning Pan-Africanism: Should Africans Have African Names?
Oct. 18 London African History Through Representations In The Capital
Oct. 25 Today Brixton Is Locked Off: The Day Black Lives Matter Shut Down Brixton
Nov. 1 Where Would Reggae Be If It Were Not For Migration?
Nov. 8 Police And The Criminalising Of British African Youths By Numbers guest presenter: Bro Cecil Gutzmore
Nov. 15 1974: That Carib Club Story And Other Clubland Horror Histories
Nov. 22 Marking The Centenary Of 1921 Pan-African Congress In London
Nov. 29 The True History Of African/Black History Month In The UK
Dec 6 African History In Britain: Those Who Built The Foundation
Dec. 13 The Men With Ships And Preaching Back To Africa Before Marcus Garvey.
Dec. 20 UK African Women Self-Organising (Marking the 57th anniversary of the passing of Claudia Jones. Special female guests t.b.c)
Produced by BTWSC/African Histories Revisited in association with BBM/BMC (BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress), TAOBQ (The African Or Black Question), and Reggae Fraternity UK.