April 2019 represents fifty years since the killing of David Oluwale, for many the start of the roll call of deaths in police custody in the modern era. (1)  In terms of judicial outcome, it is also one of the more successful cases in that the convictions of two police…

April 21st marks the 53rd anniversary of Grounation Day, when His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, landed in Jamaica as part of his Caribbean tour that also took in Barbados, Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago.  The…

The issue of youth violence never seems to be far from the headlines with almost daily accounts of a new homicide even though fewer people are actually being injured in violent attacks. (1)   There is also a tendency to frame the deaths as some form of internecine conflict among Afrikan…

Community activist and founder of the Black Child Agenda Cheryl Phoenix has recently launched a petition calling for an “independent inquiry into exclusions of Black children from school,” and action to stop disproportionate and discriminatory exclusions of Black children. citing the startling statistic that “some Black boys are 168x’s more…

Deaths in custody have become a regrettable fact of life for too many Afrikan families in the UK.  The cases are often shrouded in intransigence, obstruction and misdirection from the state.  The state play book is invariably to draw out any investigative process, for years or even decades if necessary,…