Tag archives for Black Lives Matter
‘Mad Jack’ Fuller: Racist
Hastings’ Isobel Blackman Centre was standing room only as Black Lives Matter organiser Gary McFarlane and Sussex historian Mike Anderson spoke about the ‘Myth of Mad Jack Fuller’ to a…
Black History Month
Race or Racist Card? A St Leonards exhibition prompted Kent Barker to consider what progress race relations have made in Britain over the past half century. There have been, please…
New Arts Initiative Announced
Playing the Race Card is an innovative project to provide artists who identify as black with an opportunity to exhibit their work. Conceived by local resident and community activist, Claudine…
Caffeinated Communities
Thoughts on the radical potential of coffee shops Hastings and St Leonards are home to a large variety of cafés and coffee shops. Last issue (163), we featured a new…
Black History Month
Celebrating the local Black community in Hastings St Leonards and Hastings Alliance for Diverse Ethnicities (SHADE), Black Butterfly and Hastings Borough Council are joining in the celebration of Black History…
The Truth Behind Hastings Freedom Fighters
By Sue Layparvey There’s a new local group who call themselves the Hastings Freedom Fighters (HFF). They say that they are opposed to government restrictions imposed under coronavirus legislation. They…
Hastings residents welcome refugees
By Jo Turner On Channel 4 News this week Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye, was interviewed about her party’s policy on refugees and also her own personal poor…
Hastings Open 2020
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (HMAG) is back celebrating some of the South East’s best artistic talent, alongside national and international work, in the inaugural Hastings Open. The exhibition will…
People’s Opposition
We are seeing a rise in mass activism. Revolt is in the air, famers are driving their tractors through London, there are mass turnouts for Black Lives Matter and Extinction…
Bakers Against Racism
Hastings bakers joined a global bake sale, Bakers Against Racism, to raise money for charities supporting Black Lives ; At Home Ground Kitchen they raised more than £600 by two…
Does England’s Creative Coast Care About Racism?
The answer turned out to be an interesting balance of possibly and, well, no, not very much. I picked the organisation known as “England’s Creative Coast” as a sample rather…
COMMENT Black Lives Matter – Everywhere Including Hastings
Amber Smith is the founder of the Black Lives Matter – Sussex Facebook group which has grown to three thousand members in just one week, and is also involved in…
Born Black in Hastings
The Black Lives Matter protests have triggered a massive political movement in the USA, but have also found echoes right around the world. What has it got to do with…
Together We Stand
Photographs by Fizzel Castro Over 1,000 people attended the Hastings Rally Against Racism in Alexandra Park on the 7th June. The organisers held the socially distant event for the people…