A year after the Windrush scandal broke, Lara Choksey writes that we should be looking at the deportations and violence in the context of decades of state definition of who deserves care As Brexit turns the screw on a national consciousness split over who should fall under its remit of care, history is asking for… Read More
There is a War on Black People in Britain
Media Diversified founder Samantha Asumadu reflects on today’s news of the deportation of Black British people to Jamaica, the Stansted 15 case and after last year’s Windrush scandal, what seems like an escalating war on Black British people that the media must do more to challenge Last year Media Diversified published a series on the Windrush generation’s… Read More
Opinion: Why Ms Dynamite should have said Thank U, No to the MBE | DIASPORA TALES
MOBO and Brit award-winning musician Ms. Dynamite was at Buckingham Palace yesterday to accept her MBE. She defended her decision as honouring her Windrush generation grandparents, but with the Windrush scandal still ongoing, author Vanessa Walters asks whether now is the time for nostalgia. The decision to accept or reject an MBE is personal and… Read More
We must have a fair compensation scheme for the Windrush generation
Patrick Vernon OBE launches a new petition to demand that compensation for victims of the Windrush scandal be fair and without caps Read More
Windrush and migration stories must become part of a national narrative of Britain | Windrush 70th Anniversary series
Patrick Vernon describes the need to include Windrush stories in our public imagination of how modern Britain was built in the third article in a series curated for Windrush Day by Kiri Kankhwende Read More
Caribbean food and cultural spaces rebuilt parts of the UK that had been neglected | Windrush 70th Anniversary series
Riaz Phillips explains how Windrush migrants created new social spaces that British society thrived upon in the second article of a series for Windrush Day curated by Kiri Kankhwende Read More
How much hostility is enough? | Windrush 70th Anniversary series
Satbir Singh discusses how the Windrush scandal is symptomatic of an inaccessible immigration system in the first article of a series curated for Windrush Day by Kiri Kankhwende Read More
The Windrush generation: British citizenship and mobility control
Sundeep Lidher reflects on how stories of colonial and Commonwealth arrivals must be re-framed to recognise the Windrush generation’s status as citizen-migrants Read More
The “hostile environment” that puts grandparents behind bars
The dehumanising treatment of the Windrush generation by the Home Office needs to be challenged writes, Marcus Stow Read More
Politics & Calypso: Lord Kitchener, the Windrush-era musician who sang stories
‘Kitch’ should be celebrated as one of the great black British musicians of the 20th century according to Nathan Holder Read More
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