Category Archives: Speeches

BG/P/17/1

File includes addresses as delivered by Bernie Grant in various forums such as the House of Commons and the African Reparations Movement. Includes speeches and associated notes relating to issues such as: Maastricht Treaty, Labour Party, education, left politics, youth affairs, trade unions, Iraq Gulf War, economics, local government and decentralisation, socialism, immigration, environment, ‘future of Black People in Britain’, ‘conditional return’, reparations, and racism.

BG/P/17/2

File consists of speeches delivered by Bernie Grant in his capacity as a Haringey Councillor and as a Member of Parliament for Tottenham. Includes speeches and associated notes relating to issues such as: Jamaica, racism, ‘the State of Black Children’s Education’, equality, democracy, urban regeneration, 1987 election public meeting, Tottenham, the media and the black community, Haringey, local elections May 1986. Also includes ‘Councillor Bernie Grant’s speech to a special meeting of the Haringey Council on Monday October 14th concerning the disturbances at Broadwater Farm on Oct 6th 1985’.

BG/P/17/3

Speeches delivered by Bernie Grant in various forums such as the House of Commons, the Standing Conference on Racial Equality in Europe and within a personal capacity. Includes speeches and associated notes such as: a House of Commons speech re voluntary resettlement in the Caribbean (Adjournment debate), funeral appreciation for Jah Bones [prominent Tottenham Rastafarian and Community Activist], famous speech entitled ‘Reparations or Bust’ delivered by Bernie Grant MP on 12th Nov 1993 at Birmingham Town Hall, House of Commons Adjournment debate re Iraq and the Gulf War, speech entitled ‘The New Europe: British Blacks, Racism and Xenophobia’ and a speech relating to the national launch of the Standing Conference on Racial Equality in Europe (SCORE).

The following is a link to a pdf of an edited version of the Birmingham speech.

Reparations or Bust Speech cover

Reparations or Bust Speech

BG/P/17/4

Speeches delivered by Bernie Grant in various forums and relating to issues such as the following: Black peoples and immigration, Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill 8 Dec 1992, race relations, international development, third world debt, racism, law, Tottenham, education, equal opportunity, youth unemployment, crime, health, civil rights, Haringey and Community Police Consultative Group, police community relations, police and Black peoples, Louis Farrakhan and Million Man March, opening of Communal Information Technology Centre in Welkom South Africa, black leadership dialogue. Includes speech delivered to the International Symposium of the Danish Board for Ethnic Equality, Copenhagen Denmark 8-10 May 1996 and papers re University of Maryland, Afro-American Studies Program ‘Dialogue for Global Leadership Week on: “Black Politics Across the Atlantic”, dated Oct 28th 1997.