This  walk  recognises 70 years since the SS Windrush arrived  from the Caribbean.This tour starts with  the 1950’s and goes right up to the  21st century.

We will cover:

• Black music history soul, reggage, rave and acid: the legendary 4 Aces
• Hackneys black activism and its pioneering role in housing equality
• Sus and Operation Jackpot, the Freeway Rick Ross  Los Angeles connection
• Black British Civil Rights : Hackney Black Peoples Defence Association, Colin Roach and others
• Revolution via reading: Black bookshops, Maarifa, Centerprise
• Gentrification and social cleansing
• Education and the Black child, from grassroots campaigns to national change
• Race Relations 1965, 1968,1976  the reasons, the impact, the legacies
• The rise of the black church