Hello from Britain‪!‬ Hello from Britain

Thank you so much for learning along with me, @Seunspeakss, over the past year! Hello From Britain! will be back with Season 2 soon. 



Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello



Summer Reads:

Jordanna Bailkin, The Afterlife of Empire

Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock, eds., Here To Stay Here To Fight: A ‘Race Today’ Anthology

Jean Toomer, Cane

Touré, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?

Richard Wright, Native Son



Online Archive to check out:

Warwick Digital Collection on Britain, Empire and Migration: https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/bem 

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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about how Pan-African political thought developed in late 20th century Britain.

Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello

Further resources:

6th Pan African Congress: https://snccdigital.org/events/6th-pan-african-congress/

BLF: https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/listings/region/online-event/the-black-liberation-front-qa/

Linda Bellos interview: https://www.rainbowjews.com/equality-champion-linda-bellos-proud-to-be-an-african-jewish-lesbian-feminist/

Organisation of African Unity: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/organisation-african-unity-oau, https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/organization-african-unity-1963-2002/

Resolutions of the 7th Pan-African Congress: https://d.lib.msu.edu/ajps/13

UK ARM Repossession Order: https://i2.wp.com/berniegrantarchive.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ephemera_repossession_large.jpg

UNESCO, African women, Pan-Africanism and African renaissance: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000235230

W.E.B. Du Bois' Appeal To The World!: https://www.aclu.org/appeal-world

Young Historian's Project on the BLF:

https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/blf-exhibition

https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/blf-film-we-are-our-own-liberators

Music Recommendation:

Grand Kalle, Independance Cha-Cha

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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about how Pan-African political thought developed in early 20th century Britain. 

Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello

Further resources:

Archive of W.E.B. Du Bois documents: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/mums312

Horrible Histories Video on Sons of Africa: https://fb.watch/esaGWASaib/

Short documentary on Amy Ashwood Garvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4SqjgGWNc

W.E.B. Du Bois 1900 speech: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1900-w-e-b-du-bois-nations-world/

Frances Willard, Jane Addams, Jesse Daniel Ames, ‘White Women and the Campaign against Lynching’, Counterpoints: The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America: Lynching, Prison Rape, & The Crisis of Masculinity (2001)

Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism: A History (Bloomsbury 2018)

Marika Sherwood Lecture on the 1945 Pan-African Congress for Manchester Metropolitan University- https://mmutube.mmu.ac.uk/media/1_fpebqm06

People’s History Museum on the 1945 Pan-African Congress- https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/africa-speaks-in-manchester-pan-africanism-manchester-and-a-collection-gem/

Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (Pluto Press 2018)

RM Burroughs, ‘Savage times come again’: Morel, Wells, and the African Soldier, c.1885-1920’, English Studies in Africa: a journal of the humanities (2016) -https://bit.ly/3ztSohm



Music Recommendation:

Miriam Makeba- A Piece of Ground

In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in Britain and the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (1978-1982).

Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello

Further resources:

Marius Turda, Maria Sophia Quine, Historicising Race (2018)



Beverley Bryan, Suzanne Scafe, and Stella Dadzie The Heart of the Race (1985)



Antony Appiah, 'The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race' Critical Inquiry (1985)



Tariq Modood, ‘Political Blackness And British Asians’ Sociology (1994)



Lola Young, ‘What is Black British Feminism?’ Women: a cultural review (2000)



Overview of OWAAD and FOWAAD:

https://feminismandthemedia.co.uk/stories/fowaad-speak-out/ 



British Library Interview with OWAAD co-founders Stella Dadzie:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/stella-dadzie-owaad



OWAAD Draft Constitution:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/xgHiqAbfrKfOTg?childAssetId=zQFO0itCXex7hA&hl=en



Combahee River Collective Statement:

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/



Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on identity politics and the Combahee River Collective:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaNJ7ktIqA



An example of a contemporary supplementary school:

https://www.phoenixagendaschool.com/saturdayschool



Anti-Apartheid movement newsletters and photos featuring women:

https://www.aamarchives.org/who-was-involved/women-s-groups.html#click-here-to-read-the-anti-apartheid-women-s-newsletter



Film recommendation:

Bhaji on the Beach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNr2FlU8l1Y

Music recommendation:

The Specials-Nelson Mandela

In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about the Brixton Black Women's Group, which formed in 1973 and disbanded around 1985. 



Further resources:

Overview of the UK Women's Liberation Movement:

https://www.bl.uk/sisterhood/articles/womens-liberation-a-national-movement



On Gerlin Bean:

https://theblackcurriculum.com/blog/black-women-activists-in-british-history-womens-history-month-2022



On Shrew magazine:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/shrew-magazine-1976



On Olive Morris:

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/my-heart-will-always-be-in-brixton-olive-morris-black-cultural-archives/XwWReH6wADe8xA?hl=en



On Beverley Bryan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aL2mV66uCBU&app=desktop



On Liz Obi:

https://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/121-railton-road/

https://boroughphotos.org/lambeth/olive-morris-squatters-handbook/



On Zainab Abbas:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tj50/black-power-a-british-story-of-resistance



On the Brixton Black Women's Group:

https://www.bl.uk/womens-rights/articles/black-women-activists-in-britain#footnote6

https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/spotlight-on-londons-radical-herstory-the-brixton-black-womens-group/



On virginity testing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuWNi20xGhc

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/uk/virginity-testing-hymenoplasty-ban-uk-asequals-intl-cmd/index.html

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1979-02-19/debates/8b08facc-47af-41eb-b071-cce935bbda0b/ImmigrationProcedures



“Speak Out” Issues 1-4:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/8wGd1OOMcK7W-w?childAssetId=_QGRGCwfYMh0mA&hl=en



Film Recommendations:

Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam (2020, BBC)

Misbehaviour (2020, Pathé, BFI and BBC Films) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Keira Knightley

Cedar Wood & Silk- https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-cedar-wood-silk-1995-online



Music Recommendation:

The Women’s Liberation Music Archive

Matumbi- Empire Road

In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in Britain and Black Power in the mid-late 20th-century. 

Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello(@BritainHello)

Further resources:

Anne-Marie Angelo, 'The Black Panthers in London, 1967-72: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Atlantic' (2009) Radical History Review

Robin Bunce and Paul Field, 'Obi B. Egbuna, C.L.R. James and the Birth of Black Power in Britain: Black Radicalism in Britain 1967-72' (2011) Twentieth Century British History

Kate Quinn, Black Power in the Caribbean (University Press of Florida 2014)

Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain (Verso 2018)

Black Panther Party 10-Point Program: https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/25139/the-black-panther-partys-ten-point-program/

A 1966 Stokely Carmichael speech on Black Power: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1966-stokely-carmichael-black-power/

Recent Altheia Jones-Lecointe Interview: https://organisedyouth.tumblr.com/tagged/audio 

A Guardian Long-Read on Altheia Jones-Lecointe and the British Black Panther Movement: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/09/altheia-jones-lecointe-the-black-panther-who-became-a-mangrove-nine-hero

Sewell Commission Report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-report-of-the-commission-on-race-and-ethnic-disparities

Macpherson Inquiry: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-stephen-lawrence-inquiry

Film Recommendation: Judas and the Black Messiah, Small Axe

Music Recommendation: Stevie Wonder- Black Man