About Author: Tony Warner

Website: http://www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk/
Description: Tony Warner runs events on the black history of London with guided walks, talks and films detailing the African presence in London. He also works in schools and colleges to improve academic performance and behaviour using history, and has featured in BBC, Teachers TV and Radio 4 documentaries.

Posts by Tony Warner

Going the extra mile to support black films

Posted on September 23, 2011 | No Comments
It is well known that television channels have a habit of screening positive black films very late at night. Similarly cinemas...
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A most disturbing history of black mental health

Posted on September 10, 2011 | No Comments
Drapetomania was the name given to the ‘mental illness’ that numerous enslaved Africans demonstrated by running away from the European slave-masters...
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Captain America’s black history

Posted on August 4, 2011 | No Comments
Captain America’s movie origins involve being the subject of experiments by a kindly German doctor who escaped Nazi barbarism. It is...
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Why is Obama praising Reagan?

Posted on July 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
Obama is a black democrat, Reagan was a white republican so why is Obama praising his legacy and endorsing a statue...
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Why is Haiti so poor?

Posted on July 2, 2011 | 5 Comments
The notion taught in European institutions is that benevolent white men abolished slavery because it was a scar on their conscience. The facts are that enslaved Africans fought back at every opportunity and the
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The Afro Hair and Beauty Show promotes European standards of beauty

Posted on June 1, 2011 | 4 Comments
While people are lining up to lambast the LSE lecturer who stated that black women are rated the least attractive of all races, there is a peculiar silence
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Film Review: Is Attack the Block an attack on blacks?

Posted on May 23, 2011 | 7 Comments
It’s number three in the UK box office, after Thor and Fast Furious. It features a majority black British cast but...
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Lack of black characters in children’s films under the spotlight

Posted on February 18, 2011 | 1 Comment
After the hysteria that greeted Disney's Princess and the Frog, it is worth reviewing the presence and treatment of black characters in children’s’ films
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UNIYFPAD:Why knowing your history is important…

Posted on January 31, 2011 | No Comments
These are real examples taken from schools/colleges and PTA’s “Is that a real picture or is that special effects? ” 10 year old...
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UNIYFPAD: 400 Years of Black British Civil Rights

Posted on January 27, 2011 | No Comments
The black presence in England dates back at least 2000 years to the Roman invasion of Britain. Africans in Rome and...
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