Black Panthers in London – talk by Carlus Hudson

The Black Panthers are one of the most pivotal organisations in the histories of radicalism and anti-racism in the United States, and their ideas have had an enormous impact on activists who have come after them. Far less famous, but by no means less significant, was the Black Panther Movement in Britain. Active in the late 60s and early 70s, its history touches on the fight within the anti-racist movement in Britain between its liberal and radical wings, and the internationalisation of struggles against colonialism, neo-colonialism and the Vietnam War. CRaB research student Carlus Hudson recently gave a talk on

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“Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth” – Public Lecture by Dr Ryan Hanley

As part of Black History Month 2016, the Citizenship ‘Race’ and Belonging Research Network hosted a public lecture on the history of Portsmouth’s black presence in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The talk, Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth by Dr Ryan Hanley, a Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford and was based in part on Ryan’s PhD research as well as new research using local archives and national databases such as the Legacies of British Slave Ownership database (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/). Ryan and I joined Mason Jordan on Express FM’s ‘Portsmouth Breakfast’ show on Monday morning to

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