Tag: James Baldwin

  • Long Read: Counted As Warriors?

    50 Years of Gay Pride matched by 50 years of failure among movements for racial justice in the UK to see that none of us are free until we are all free

  • Event: I’m Not Your Negro Preview Screening 19/03

    Event: I’m Not Your Negro Preview Screening 19/03

    We’re massive fans of James Baldwin so are massively excited to announce a special preview screening of new documentary ‘I’m Not Your Negro’ on Sunday 19th March.

  • WATCH: #Speechless Series No.4 ‘No where are you really from?’

    WATCH: #Speechless Series No.4 ‘No where are you really from?’

    The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence. Here Rob Berkeley wishes that there was an easier answer to the ‘where are you from?’ question. “The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he has no mirror, no corroborations of…

  • WATCH: #Speechless Series No.3 My Liberation can Wait?

    WATCH: #Speechless Series No.3 My Liberation can Wait?

    The #SpeechlessSeries is a space for BlackoutUK contributors to provoke a conversation that challenges the silence. Here Rob Berkeley considers the challenge of progressive activism when your own liberation is seen as less important than that of others? “The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he…