Tag: The Independent

  • Hanif Kureishi: ‘We’re all mixed-race now The Independent 2011-10-23 James Kidd Immigration, Islamism, multi-culturalism – as his new collected stories attests, the hottest topics of the day have long been the bedrock of Hanif Kureishi’s fiction. Just don’t get him started on the joys of ‘Big Brother’… Hanif Kureishi is, by some accounts, a hard…

  • Leading Aircraftwoman in the WAAF and one of the first black women to join the British Armed Forces The Independent 2015-04-06 Stephen Bourne Lilian Bader (1918-2015) Bader trained as an instrument repairer, became a Leading Aircraftwoman and soon gained the rank of Acting Corporal. I first met Lilian Bader at the Imperial War Museum in…

  • Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…

  • What is a White Man? The Independent Volume 41 (1889-05-30) pages 5-6 Source: The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive Charles W. Chesnutt, Esq. The fiat having gone forth from the wise men of the South that the “all-pervading, all-conquering Anglo-Saxon race” must continue forever to exercise exclusive control and direction of the government of this so-called…

  • Don’t consign Mary Seacole to history, Michael Gove is urged The Independent London, England 2013-01-04 Kevin Rawlinson Petition launched to prevent Crimean War nurse being written out of school textbooks Leading black Britons have united to urge the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to abandons his plan to remove the country’s most celebrated black historical figure…

  • Mixed race children and young people are individual nation states. They defy classification The Independent 2012-12-012 Shyama Perea This week we learned that the number of mixed race people in the UK has doubled to 1.2 million. I’m adding my children to the arsenal of weapons for change n the late 1940s, the Eurasian poet…

  • Ian Thomson: Jamaica was modern before Britain The Independent London, England 2012-10-04 Miguel Cullen To mark Black History Month the author of “Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica” talks to Miguel Cullen about the ways Jamaica is punching above its weight Jamaica is a country that exceeds its limitations. For example India’s GDP is 180…

  • French MP Harlem Désir set to become first black man to lead a major European political party The Independent London, England 2012-09-12 John Lichfield The French Euro MP Harlem Désir appears certain next month to become the first black man to lead a major European political party. After weeks of wrangling, Mr Désir, 52, was…

  • Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain The Independent 1999-03-04 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Lynchings, imprisonment and social exclusion will never stop individual s breaking racial barriers WE HAVE looked, for a good many days, at the poisonous worms of racism as the Lawrence inquiry team turned over the soil. The coverage of this event…

  • Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background