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Fifty years after the American Civil War, blacks in the southern states still could not vote or sit on juries, and lynch mobs enforced white rule. Asks why the emancipation from slavery led to another, even...
Shows how black communities have been fighting in the streets and in the courts for the basic human right to live without fear of racial attack. Focuses on several cases of self-defence including the...
Harry Aponte of the Family Therapy Training Program of Philaldelphia demonstrates a structural approach to family therapy. Shows the first interview with a black family, focusing on issues of boundaries and...
A performance by the a cappella group Black Voices, taking as its subject the high incidence of mental illness in Britain’s Afro-Caribbean community.
Brother Niyi and Zena Edwards are two young black poets whose work is directly confrontational in that it confirms the relevance of poetry in black popular culture today.
Looks at the results of a study in Nottingham, which claims that British Afro-Caribbeans are ten times more likely to develop schizophrenia than the rest of the population. Black critics claim that...
Part of a series documenting key artists, issues and debates within the black arts sector in Britain, commissioned between 1988 and 1995. Places the story of ‘Little Black Sambo’ in a contemporary urban...
A survey of Caribbean literature in Britain from the late 1940s to the present day, responding to the issues of colonialism, immigration, morality and language.
A lyrical drama about a black woman who was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to England. She has just died and her children are gathered around her. As they argue about their lives and discuss their...
A history of black settlers in Britain. Traces the arrival of black people from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean over four centuries, focusing on the continual struggle against poverty, opprression and racism...
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