It is well known that television channels have a habit of screening positive black films very late at night. Similarly cinemas have a habit of only screening such films very seldomly or not at all. Given these realities, what can be done to support black films and encourage the accurate portrayal of people of African…
Drapetomania was the name given to the ‘mental illness’ that numerous enslaved Africans demonstrated by running away from the European slave-masters who were abusing them. As far as white doctors in the 1860’s were concerned, human beings were mentally ill if, when physically abused and tortured, they chose to escape. If this concept is hard…
Captain America's movie origins involve being the subject of experiments by a kindly German doctor who escaped Nazi barbarism. It is a well-known fact that the Nazis performed atrocious experiments on human beings (injecting people's eyes to turn them blue or freezing them to death to see how long it took). But it is less…
Obama is a black democrat, Reagan was a white republican so why is Obama praising his legacy and endorsing a statue in Grosvenor square? What is Reagan’s history with regard to black people in America and around the world? He opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1970, stating…
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
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
It’s number three in the UK box office, after Thor and Fast Furious. It features a majority black British cast but how does the film Attack the Block portray black people and what impressions will audiences walk away with? The main characters in film are a gang of five muggers. They are black or mixed…