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…

The consecutive nights of protest in France after the “execution” of Nahel Merzouk a 17-year-old of Maghrebi Algerian descent, are said to be dying down. (1) The killing in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on June 27th was said to be the lastest in a history of police violence against…

Britain finds itself in celebratory mode, marking 75 years (on June 22) since the HMT Empire Windrush. In addition to a reception hosted by the newly minted King at his official residence where ten commissioned portraits of the “very special generation” were unveiled, the Royal Mail has issued a series…