Going the extra mile to support black films
It is well known that television channels have a habit of screening positive black films very late at night. Similarly cinemas have a habit of only screening such... Read more.
A most disturbing history of black mental health
Drapetomania was the name given to the ‘mental illness’ that numerous enslaved Africans demonstrated by running away from the European slave-masters who were... Read more.
Captain America’s black history
Captain America’s movie origins involve being the subject of experiments by a kindly German doctor who escaped Nazi barbarism. It is a well-known fact that... Read more.
Why is Haiti so poor?
The notion taught in European institutions is that benevolent white men abolished slavery because it was a scar on their conscience. The facts are that enslaved... Read more.
The Afro Hair and Beauty Show promotes European standards of beauty
While people are lining up to lambast the LSE lecturer who stated that black women are rated the least attractive of all races, there is a peculiar silence... Read more.
Film Review: Is Attack the Block an attack on blacks?
It’s number three in the UK box office, after Thor and Fast Furious. It features a majority black British cast but how does the film Attack the Block portray black... Read more.
Lack of black characters in children’s films under the spotlight
After the hysteria that greeted Disney's Princess and the Frog, it is worth reviewing the presence and treatment of black characters in children’s’ films... Read more.
400 Years of Black British Civil Rights
The black presence in England dates back at least 2000 years to the Roman invasion of Britain. Africans in Rome and subjects of the North African colonies were present... Read more.