An education revolution is about to begin – if we want it. Some of our brightest and best minds (and others with different agendas) have been tackling this issue for six decades. While they helped establish a formidable legacy of foundation schools (“Saturday” or “Supplementary” schools), the school system itself…

The largest ever FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) World Cup boasting a record forty-eight teams is well and truly under way in the USA, Canada and Mexico. But even before a ball was kicked, the biggest football event on the planet was rather less than the ‘World Cup for…

On Wednesday June 17th the Beyond Windrush: The Children Britain Misclassified will take place at Goldsmiths University. The event will “explore how thousands of children were mislabelled ‘educationally subnormal (ESN) in UK schools from the 1950s–1980… examines how and why this happened, and the lasting impact it has had on…

Grand Master Teacher Warrior Scholar Baba John Henrik Clarke famously declared: “Pan-Africanism or Perish.” This was the title of the last book he was working on before he joined the Ancestors. He asserted that: “Pan-Africanism or Perish is a program for the unity of African people throughout the world and…

Once again Notting Hill Carnival has gone through the humiliating ritual of begging for money in order to go ahead. (1) The only saving grace was that the embarrassing tap dance happened in March rather than the month before the event was scheduled to take place as was case last…