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15 micro audio cassette recordings; and one standard audio cassette recording

15 Micro Audio cassette recordings [and one standard size audio cassette with enclosed note] of Bernie Grant’s meetings, interviews and speeches dealing with a variety of local, national and international concerns. Includes key items such as Bernie Grant’s West Indian Centre Reparations speech; African National Congress tapes; Interview with the Haringey Advertiser; Interview with Turkish Post [dated 25 Mar 1992]; recording of Bernie Grant on the telephone with Minister Louis Farrakhan [Nation of Islam]; interview of Bernie Grant on the ‘black issues’ Australian Broadcasting Programme entitled ‘Awaye!’ [31 Aug 1996]; and tapes of the Hackney Reparations Rally [dated 20 Dec 1993]. Also includes associated annotations and notes.

Tags: Closed for 30 years from the date of the recording. Exceptions apply: Some recordings may be available for access. Please make application to the Bernie Grant Trust.

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BBC Open to Question

April 25, 2016 Webmaster 0 Comments 1 tag

Whole recording: Extract 1: (Question – “I live in Hackney which is a neighbouring borough to Tottenham. The general feeling among youth of my age of all racial backgrounds

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1994 Charles John Cobb Memorial Lecture by Bernie Grant MP on the rise of racism in Britain

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This is the complete lecture: The following are three extracts from this lecture with transcripts: “That war (the first Gulf War) wasn’t supported because a number of us felt

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Reparations Meeting Brixton. Bernie Grant MP and Dr Patrick Wilmott.

April 25, 2016 Webmaster 0 Comments 1 tag

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