As we officially welcome the 25th annual Mosiah Season, established in 1998 by the Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement. The month long observance was launched at the Opening Ceremony on Mosiah 6th. The event featured readings from our young people raised in the Movement, a touching tribute to our fallen Warrior Elder

The 1st of Mosiah (Aug) is the tenth Pan-Afrikan Reparations Rebellion Groundings, taking place at Windrush Square, Brixton. Established in 2014 by Rastafari Movement (UK), it, along with the fledgling interim National Afrikan People’s Parliament (iNAPP) contributed to a palpable feeling of renaissance within the community around that time. (1)

Award-winning journalist Nadine White’s debut film, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind, a five-year labour of love, premiered last month in London to packed audiences. A national tour of the film will commence this summer. (1) The term barrel children was coined by Jamaican academic Dr Claudette Crawford-Brown in

Although the incendiary response to the police killing of 17-. year-old Moroccan Algerian youth Nahel Merzouk last month has cooled, anger about the perceived impunity over police killings remains, in spite of state attempts to quell it. (1) A prime example is the (ultimately failed) attempt to ban the annual

Dr Mutulu Shakur, renowned freedom fighter, holistic healer and noted political prisoner has passed away aged 72 six months after being released from 36 years of incareration. (1) He probably more known in popular circles as the step-father of legendary rapper Tupac Shakur and was married to Tupac’s mother Afeni