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Malcolm X: By any means necessary
Malcolm X, the Black nationalist revolutionary, was reviled by white America during the Civil Rights era. After his assassination in 1965, many viewed him as a prophetic revolutionary. For the centenary of his birth, WritersMosaic explores Malcolm X's global legacy as a resistance leader.
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Michael McMillan’s cultural highlights
Michael McMillan on Biyi Bandele's Burma Boy, the exhibitions There is Light Somewhere and The 80s: Photographing Britain, Oliver Samuels' Lucky Money and Edson Jean's film, Ludi.
What We Leave We Carry
Andrea Antonieta Schroeder
Andrea Antonieta Schroeder left Chile and moved to the UK with a broken heart to try to forget a man with whom she was in love.
Guest Edition
Borderliner
Edited by Hannah Lowe
“This guest edition deploys and renews the term borderliner (an obsolete and racist epithet for people of mixed heritage) as a catalyst for multiple, innovative discussions of issues of identity, race, ethnicity and language.”
Going for Gold
Lisa Lintott's play inspired by the story of the boxer Frankie Lucas
Dahomey
Mati Diop's documentary on the return of looted royal treasures to Benin
There Is Light Somewhere
Tavares Strachan's exhibiton with images of Elizabeth II, African masks and outer space
Looking for Cazabon
Lawrence Scott’s debut poetry collection focuses on the Trinidadian painter Michel-Jean Cazabon
Bookselling is not now a crime
The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem remains a beacon of light
My Missing Tongue
Realising a dream of writing in Urdu
Events
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Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood
At Trinidad's Bocas Literary Festival's recent event at the British Library, Monique Roffey, Safiya Sinclair and Kevin Jared Hosein reflected on how the most intimate relations are shaped by conflicts in the Caribbean.
InSight
Walking in the Wake
A black-and-white film after Christine Sharpe’s In the Wake On Blackness and Being (2016), Walking in the Wake was produced for the Estuary Festival (2021) in collaboration between the founding WritersMosaic board member Michael McMillan, Elsa James and Dubmorphology (Gary Stewart and Trevor Mathison).McMillan’s voiceover commentary meditates on the ebb and flow of the River Thames and the black presence in the English countryside, as we follow twelve black pilgrims walking along the Estuary passing sites of Empire.
Alford Dalrymple Gardner: remembered
Alford Dalrymple Gardner, a Windrush generation pioneer, died last week. In 2023, he visited the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his memoir, Finding Home, with his son, Howard, Lisa Williams and Colin Grant. This film is courtesy of the EIBF archive.
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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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