A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
Teacher, pioneering educational diversity activist, museum founder, BBC and BFI Governor, the first patron of the Black Cultural Archives, Jocelyn Barrow was the first Black woman ever awarded a DBE (equivalent to a knighthood).
Another member of the Black Panthers and the Mangrove Nine, Howe established the Race Today Collective and chaired the Notting Hill Carnival Development Committee for many years. During his twelve years as editor of Race Today, the magazine supported several …
Trinidadian physician and research scientist, Altheia Jones-LeCointe led the British Black Panther Movement, recruiting thousands from the 1960s onwards, including the late broadcaster and campaigner, Darcus Howe, as well as giving talks in schools and teaching classes in anti-colonialism. A staunch defender of women’s as well as racial rights, she developed procedures within the Black Panthers to investigate and punish men suspected of the abuse or exploitation of women.
