Black History Month - Rich Mix

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RICH MIX is celebrating Black History Month with two guest speakers – Colin Prescod and Kwame Kwei-Armah.

Film plus Q&A with Colin Prescod: Struggles for Black Community – Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 4pm.

Colin Prescod, Chair of the Institute of Race Relations presents two seminal documentaries that focus on an aspect of contemporary black history:

A Town Under Siege (NC)
Director: Colin Prescod/2008/UK/38 minutes

Focusing on Southall from 1976-1981, this insightful documentary charts the area’s resistance to racist and fascist attacks. Initiated by the community organisations of the 1950s, these groups combated racism in the workplace and discrimination in the community.

Set against the rise of state racism with severe controls on immigration and police harassment, we witness how a community fashioned and forged new weapons to cope with the struggle. Indeed it was during one of these clashes that teacher and anti-racist, Blair Peach was killed in 1979, sparking one of the London’s most infamous riots.

From You Were Black, You Were Out
Director: Colin Prescod/2008/UK/38 minutes

Set in Notting Hill in the 1950s, we follow the ‘founders’ of the Ladbroke Grove community as they describe their experience of life at that time. With decaying housing, slum landlords and brutal racism, the local community were forced to defend themselves; something that developed into a more general community resistance.

From the emergence of local ‘Black Power’ groups to the arrival of the area’s carnival, the film is a fitting testament to the tenacity and strength of a community.



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