Frank Crichlow (1932 - 2010) was a community activist and civil rights campaigner. He founded the Mangrove restaurant which became the centre for Black civil rights activism in Britain which led to the infamous Mangrove Nine trials of 1970 and the first admission of institutional racism within the Metropolitan Police force.
Video smuggled out of Israel that captures the Israeli Navy threatening to open fire on a boat containing human rights activists who were delivering aid, following the massacres in Gaza under Operation Cast Lead 2008/2009 during which over 1,400 people were killed and over 50,000 people displaced.
With the US's political landscape under more scrutiny than ever before, citizens of the US are rapidly calling for change.
Will history ever stop repeating itself? A statement on the illegalities of war and the actions which should be taken to stop the outbreak of war.
Robin Miller looks at some of the propaganda tactics used by the mainstream media to help shape public opinion and perceptions about the Israel/Palestine conflict.
With gas prices at an all-time high, oil conglomerates are, now more than ever, looking to Africa for its relatively untapped resources.
Zimbabwean political analyst George Shire talks to Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr. about the recent elections in his country, the cause of the crisis and the impact of Western interference on the democratic process of change in Zimbabwe.
A quarter of a century after the Soweto Uprising, the linguistic and social divides which underly the upheaval are still a pressing issue.
Pat Dodson, winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize, talks to Ishmahil Blagrove, Jr. about the plight of Australia's indigenous people, the recent government apology and the opportunities for black and white Australians to resolve their differences.
With religious intolerance now at the ugly centre of many of the world's major conflicts, it is important to look at the concepts of spirituality and the clashes of conformity within the contexts of organized religion.
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Fidel Castro has retired after forty-nine years as President and Commander-in-Chief of the larger-than-life revolutionary island of Cuba. After almost two years as acting President, Raul Castro was elected his successor and is now the custodian of the world’s most famous revolution.
With another year drawn to a close, many of the serious calamities and disasters that the world faced entering 2007 still remain.
Both the government and monarchy fail to acknowledge any hypocrisy in Britain’s masquerade as a champion of human rights and democracy while simultaneously playing host to one of the world’s most corrupt and infamous abusers of human rights: the dictator and ruler of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah.
The western media’s coverage of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United Nations was disgraceful and the worst type of media propaganda imaginable. It is this type of shameful news reporting that epitomizes the biased stance of many news agencies that claim to uphold balanced and ethical values in broadcasting.
Youth violence is again at the top of the news agenda as the result of the recent murder of Rhys Jones, an eleven-year-old boy from Liverpool. His callous slaying at such a tender age has shocked the nation and sparked a series of public and media debates about the phenomenon of youth violence and its root causes.
By all accounts, there is untold suffering and serious human rights abuses taking place, with reports of rape, amputations, and destruction to civilian life and property. But these terrible acts are a general symptom of war, so should the events that have been taking place in Darfur over the past few years be described as a 'genocide'?
Why, or more importantly, how has the disappearance of a four-year-old girl sparked such a frenzy amongst the world's media and in particular, the British public? We’ve entered the age of entertainment news - an age where the importance of a news story is not determined by the public value of its content but rather by its ability to mesmerise and sustain its viewers.
Bayonets can now be removed, as the hand-to-hand combat that was widely predicted within the Labour Party has truly been averted; Gordon Brown is the “new” Labour Prime Minister.
Channel 4’s Celebrity Big Brother sparked a public debate into race and class that dwarfed all previous public discussions on the subject and eclipsed all domestic and international news.
