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BLACK STUDIES W/LEILA HASSAN HOWE: life in Zanzibar, 60s Britain, IRR, New Cross, Black People's Day of Action + more - Make it Plain

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses a big survey (with "over 10,000 voices") out this week on the "Black British" experiences by the Black British Voices Project. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde talks with Leila Hassan Howe about her life in Zanzibar and coming back to Britain in the 60s, working for the Institute of Race Relations (IRR, directed by A. Sivanandan) and the journal Race Today Collective (edited by Darcus Howe), building independent Black institutions and alternatives to the British education system, New Cross Fire (1981) and the National Black People’s Day of Action (1981). Leila Hassan Howe is a veteran activist and organizer. In 1981 through the New Cross Massacre Action Committee she co-organized the famous Black People’s Day of Action march that followed the New Cross Fire. She was an active member of the Race Today Collective, edited its journal, joined the Black Unity and Freedom Party (BUFP), and was involved in all of its key struggles. - BLACK DIMENSIONS READING LIST Black Power: The Politics of Liberation Book by Charles V. Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael Soul on Ice Book by Eldridge Cleave The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks Book by Frantz Fanon The Souls of Black Folk Book by W. E. B. Du Bois Message to the Blackman in America Book by Elijah Muhammad Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism Book by Kwame Nkrumah The Black Jacobins Book by C. L. R. James - Black British Voices Project (BBVP): https://www.bbvp.org/ Black British Voices The Findings https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-british-voices-report (Interview by Kehinde Andrews) Leila Hassan Howe: "My life was made hell. You’d just hear a tirade against immigrants" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/08/leila-hassan-howe-black-power-london-revolution-black-lives-matter Guy Reid-Bailey: the man who sparked the Bristol bus boycott and then fought to desegregate housing https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/guy-reid-bailey-the-man-who-sparked-the-bristol-bus-boycott-and-then-fought-to-desegregate-housing THE ZANZIBAR REVOLUTION OF 1964 https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-zanzibar-revolution-of-1964/ How Olive Morris Fought for Black Women’s Rights in Britain https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/civil-rights-movement/how-olive-morris-fought-for-black-womens-rights-in-britain/ Race Today - archive chronicling lives of Black Britons to launch online https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/race-today-archive-chronicling-black-britons-lives-launches-online Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339757/here-to-stay-here-to-fight/ Ambalavaner Sivanandan (director of the IRR) obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/07/ambalavaner-sivanandan HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITYhttps://www.blackunity.org.uk/ - Guest: NA Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476