Bernie Grant Trust

A Short Biography of Bernie Grant MP 1944 - 2000. berniegrantarchive.org.uk/wp-content/upl… #berniegrant #MP #Tottenham #Haringey #Leadership #LabourParty #Politician #BlackBritain #Legacy #Activist #BlackPoliticalLeader #Councillor

🔥 JUST ANNOUNCED 🔥 Linton Kwesi Johnson joins #WoWFEST26 for Desert Island Dissent. An evening exploring the music, poetry & politics that shaped his life — and art as resistance. 📍 British Music Experience 📅 28 May | 7pm 🎟️ £12 writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/linto… #NewWorldDisorder

Mr Bernie Grant was a prominent trade unionist and local councillor who went on to make history as one of four black politicians elected to parliament in 1987. He was a history maker, a legacy builder and a community fortifier. May he continue to rest in peace.

This day 8th April 2000, iconic black MP Bernie Grant joined the ancestors

This is in the police bus that hauled us off when we were arrested. We sang. And laughed. And refused to let the weariness and violence overwhelm us. Joy is an act of resistance. [With handcuffs on, I managed to get my phone out of my pocket and record this little video inside the bus. My pal Ben Cohen (co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s) was also arrested, and was pretty impressed by my Houdini-style maneuver.] Keep singing. Keep laughing. Keep shining in the darkness. Death will not have the final word. Love wins.

Miles Davis beaten up by the NYPD outside the Birdland Jazz Club for walking a white girl to a cab and having a cigarette, 1959.

Parliamentary petition urges apology for Britain’s role in slavery and colonialism The petition calls on the House of Commons to push for a state apology on behalf of the government and the monarchy for Britain’s role in slavery By @S_Fleary1 voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2…

UN Delegates just voted to recognise the Transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. Britain abstained. This refusal to support this motion only places our government more at odds with the global majority. The call for reparatory justice is only getting louder.

UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' bbc.in/3PnDIe6

Just arrived! A huge new resource by Asher & Martin Hoyle ⁦from Hansib publications

— katherine dunham’s ballet nègre (negro ballet) — her own ballet company & one of the first ballet companies in the u.s. — performing on stage at thèâtre des champs-élysées in paris, 1948. 🩰🦢🪘

“Program director, I heard you say that if you are not a Jackson you can only speak for two minutes but I have traveled 14,000 kilometers which is 9,000 miles, over 24 hours and Jesse Jackson's story and relationship with South Africa can never be told in two minutes” President Cyril Ramaphosa Pays Tribute to the late Rev jesse jackson

I am thankful to the Voice Newspaper's Richard Sudan for this feature in March's edition focusing on women for #InternationalWomensDay2026. Today my thoughts are with women being bombed by evil men, victims of male abuse & violence, & all those who continue to face inequality.

Michael Manley’s love for Jamaica, and his friendship with Castro, is why the CIA destabilized Jamaica. They did it by sending in an “economic hitman” (there’s a documentary about it on YouTube) and by arming inner-city youths with guns, which helped spark a bloody political election. Before that, there were no guns in Jamaica, and the Jamaican dollar was equal in value to the U.S. dollar. That eventually cascaded into a CIA-backed drug trade involving Jamaican gangsters who were given visas to New York. This later fueled the “Posse Wars” between Black American drug lords and rival Jamaican factions (Shower Posse and Spranglers Posse). There’s also an episode on the show American Gangsters on this. Shower Posse alone were responsible for 1500 murders in NY and Miami in the 80s during the height of the drug trade. Some of those same factions were also involved in the attempted assassination of Bob Marley, shooting him several times (Jim Brown is the culprit. Long story on him, who the government ended up double-crossing and killing). Bob Marley was pushing unity and peace in the midst of the CIA orchestrated political violence. Right as he planned a peace concert between the two warring political factions, he was shot the day before the concert. A plot to silence a respected voice who the people would listen to. The violence and destabilization of so many Third World countries isn’t accidental. It’s often a system engineered to create dependence on the United States, steal their resources and keep people focused inward, fighting each other, which ultimately weakens both the population and the country itself.

Stevie Wonder performs "As" at the homegoing memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson today. He got Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson up on his feet clapping in the background! 🥰

Brilliant turnout for London Stop bombing Iran demo…

#MISSING | Have you seen Lawson, 76? Last seen in Brixton town centre on Sunday, 1 March. Wearing a blue knitted hat, white shirt and carrying a white coat. If you have any info please call 101, quoting 3801/01MAR26.

#MISSING Police are concerned about 12-year-old Malakai from Brent. Last seen in the Dollis Hill area on Thursday, 26 Feb. Malakai has been seen in Paddington and Brent Cross, and has links across NW London.

Gorton and Denton is majority white, and interestingly, majority Christian!

At the National Black Police Association Conference last year, POC officers raised serious concerns about AI facial recognition tools. This is why: Liberty “[Stats show] You are more likely to be mis-identified if you are young..a woman..black..or asian. You’re 250 times more likely to be misidentified if you are a black woman.” @andygeorgeni @TheNBPA

And how quickly the media have lapped it up…