We have not forgotten ‘ … at the present time blacks are really very much inside British society … no longer on the periphery’ – John La Rose, 2003. The most significant date in the history of the black experience in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century is the year 1981….
Month: August 2011
Short Speech Given At The Unveiling of UNIA Blue Plaque
UNIA Blue Plaque Unveiling on Marcus Garvey’s 124th birthday At 2 Beaumont Crescent, West Kensington on 17 August 2011 The re- interment of Marcus Garvey’s body in Jamaica in 1964 by Jamaica’s first independent government, and his elevation as Jamaica’s first national hero was, and remains of profound significance for the majority of Jamaicans at…