GARVEY LIVES! MOSIAH LIVES! Welcome to the first show of the Mosiah season 6259 (2019). Ninety-nine years ago, through its Declaration of Rights of Negro Peoples of the World, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) declared: “Our children are forced to attend inferior separate schools for…

We conclude this current series on domestic abuse in the Afrikan community by continuing the discussion started in the previous show. Some of the things we have established during the series  include: African-Caribbean communities suffer gender-based violence “more greatly than other ethnic groups.” (1) NSPCC “research established that abuse was…

After two shows looking the incidence of domestic abuse in the Afrikan community, exploring its impact and legacy, while trying to give voice to the survivors, we now turn our attention to the perpetrators.  To set the context we frame it in the words of one survivor: “Instead of asking…

We continue our “difficult conversation” about domestic abuse in the Afrikan community. Although statistics can provide a context for what is going on, it was accurately affirmed in the previous show that official statistics, being conducted by external agencies tend not to capture the nuances of certain experiences within the…

We cannot fail to have been moved by the tragic case of young Sis. Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, who at eight months pregnant was brutally stabbed and murdered in her Thornton Heath home in the early hours of the 29th June and whose unborn child succumbed to the injuries sustained four…