As we gear up for the annual Omowale Malcolm X Observance taking place on Sunday 23rd February at Chestnuts Community Centre featuring international guest speakers Mama Marimba Ani and Mwalimu Bomani Baruti (https://alkebulan.org/omxobservance/), we highlight one of the most enduring aspects of his legacy, his manhood. Indeed, generations of brothers…

After introducing the Omowale Malcolm X season in his centenary year in our previous show, we highlight that 6265 (2025) is also one hundred years since the birth of Patrice Lumumba (as well as Franz Fanon and Medger Evers). We don’t know the extent to which the Congolese freedom fighter…

Black leaders have found themselves in the headlines decades after their deaths, amid a flurry of American presidential activity. Days after outgoing president Joe Biden pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey his successor Donald Trump ordered the release of the FBI files on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as well those…

The year had barely started when the news broke that fourteen year-old Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed to death, having endured twenty-seven wounds at the hands of two knife-weilding teenagers in Woolwich, south-east London. The attack happened almost six years to the day that another fourteen year-old, Jaden Moodie died having…

Memorial events for the New Cross Massacre took place between the 17th and 19th January. Lewisham council have ostensibly assumed stewardship of the event and some attendees attested that the service and reception that took place on Saturday 18 January at All Saint’s Church and Community Centre was one of…