RIP Darcus Howe
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Is.And a nice reminder how brilliant LKJ was/is.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Yeah, I know he's still going. Just meant his 70s/80s stuff was great - not very well put.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I found myself sat next to the great man the other week at the Stuart Hall book-launch over at UEL, I went a bit 'star-struck' but was going to speak when I realised how intently engrossed he was in the proceedings.
e2a: ...and I say "is" because I was lucky enough to hear his 'lecture'/performance at UCL's "Cities Imaginaries" Lecture a year ago. He was mesmerising.
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Not sure he'd like to have been blessed by god. But hey!
toblerone3
Grrrrr
The story behind that song (an altercation at the ticket barriers at Notting Hill tube station is told in the following book extract.
Darcus Howe
Treacle Toes
Time
Special Brixton Event Will Honour Darcus Howe’s Life
Black Cultural Archives will host tribute speeches and an outdoor screening of his best known documentaries on April 9
Written by Vic Motune
04/04/2017 10:16 PM
BRIXTON TRIBUTE: Darcus Howe
A SPECIAL free event to honour the life and work of Darcus Howe is set to take place this week at Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives (BCA).
The revered campaigner, broadcaster, writer and former Voice columnist died unexpectedly last week. He was 74.
The BCA will host an outdoor screening this Sunday (April 9) of two of Howe’s best known documentaries, Mangrove 9 and Travels With My Camera: Is This My Country? and are inviting the community to come together to celebrate the man often referred to as “a champion of equal rights and justice”.
The event, which is open to the public, will start at 7pm at the BCA in Windrush Square, Brixton. Tributes will be paid from 7.30 pm and the screenings will begin at 8 pm and are due to end around 9.30 pm.
Dawn Hill, Chair of Black Cultural Archives said: “Darcus Howe, highly intellectual, undeterred activist against racial injustice in Britain, will live on in the DNA of those of us living through the 1960s in London. We should always remember this. Thank you Darcus, you made a difference for all of us.”
And speaking to The Voice, Howe’s widow Leila Hassan expressed gratitude for the thousands of messages of support that the family had received since news of Howe’s passing was made public.
She said: “The overwhelming kindness and support that we’ve been shown has really helped to ease our pain. It has made us incredibly proud to see all the tweets and messages on Facebook and social media from as far afield as America, Canada and all over the Caribbean.”
For further details please visit www.bcaheritage.org.uk
Black Cultural Archives will host tribute speeches and an outdoor screening of his best known documentaries on April 9
Written by Vic Motune
04/04/2017 10:16 PM
BRIXTON TRIBUTE: Darcus Howe
A SPECIAL free event to honour the life and work of Darcus Howe is set to take place this week at Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives (BCA).
The revered campaigner, broadcaster, writer and former Voice columnist died unexpectedly last week. He was 74.
The BCA will host an outdoor screening this Sunday (April 9) of two of Howe’s best known documentaries, Mangrove 9 and Travels With My Camera: Is This My Country? and are inviting the community to come together to celebrate the man often referred to as “a champion of equal rights and justice”.
The event, which is open to the public, will start at 7pm at the BCA in Windrush Square, Brixton. Tributes will be paid from 7.30 pm and the screenings will begin at 8 pm and are due to end around 9.30 pm.
Dawn Hill, Chair of Black Cultural Archives said: “Darcus Howe, highly intellectual, undeterred activist against racial injustice in Britain, will live on in the DNA of those of us living through the 1960s in London. We should always remember this. Thank you Darcus, you made a difference for all of us.”
And speaking to The Voice, Howe’s widow Leila Hassan expressed gratitude for the thousands of messages of support that the family had received since news of Howe’s passing was made public.
She said: “The overwhelming kindness and support that we’ve been shown has really helped to ease our pain. It has made us incredibly proud to see all the tweets and messages on Facebook and social media from as far afield as America, Canada and all over the Caribbean.”
For further details please visit www.bcaheritage.org.uk
GarveyLives
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The funeral arrangements for Darcus Howe on Thursday 20 April 2017 are as follows:
10.00am: Cortege leaves home in Norbury
10.30am: Stops at 165 Railton Road, SE24 0LU, for wreath-laying
11.30am: Funeral Service at All Saints Church, Clydesdale Rd, Notting Hill, London W11 1JE
2.30pm: Brief stop at former site of the Mangrove Restaurant on All Saints Road, London W11
3.00pm: Interment at West London Crematorium, Kensal Green, London NW10 5JS
10.00am: Cortege leaves home in Norbury
10.30am: Stops at 165 Railton Road, SE24 0LU, for wreath-laying
11.30am: Funeral Service at All Saints Church, Clydesdale Rd, Notting Hill, London W11 1JE
2.30pm: Brief stop at former site of the Mangrove Restaurant on All Saints Road, London W11
3.00pm: Interment at West London Crematorium, Kensal Green, London NW10 5JS
coley
Well-Known Member
Did he succeed, and if he did was it painful?He wanted to blow up my block
RIP Darcus
ETA, seems he was a decent bloke, RIP.
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tony.c
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There was an obituary on Radio 4's Last Word. It's the first item:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kylwp
RIP Darcus.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kylwp
RIP Darcus.
Treacle Toes
Time
FB Ablum
The Funeral of Darcus Howe
The Funeral of Darcus Howe
GarveyLives
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Although it was not possible to discuss the work of Brixton-based Marxist-Leninst Political Activitst, Writer and Broadcaster Darcus Howe within the context of the Brixton discussion forum ... it is possible to discuss it in Brixton !:
'Here to Stay, Here to Fight' launch event at the Tate Library, Brixton, hosted by Lambeth Libraries, Friday 25 October 2019, 7.00 p.m., Brixton Library, London (UK), Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JQ
"From 1974 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Brixton based Race Today Collective, was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured contributions from some of the leading voices of the time: C. L. R. James, Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Rodney, Bobby Sands, Farrukh Dhondy and Mala Sen and many more.
Join members of the Race Today Collective past contributors and those today who take inspiration from Race Today, to launch the first book-length anthology of articles – Here to Stay, Here to Fight.
Organised by the Darcus Howe Legacy Group in collaboration with Lambeth Libraries."
'Here to Stay, Here to Fight' launch event at the Tate Library, Brixton, hosted by Lambeth Libraries, Friday 25 October 2019, 7.00 p.m., Brixton Library, London (UK), Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JQ
"From 1974 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Brixton based Race Today Collective, was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured contributions from some of the leading voices of the time: C. L. R. James, Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Rodney, Bobby Sands, Farrukh Dhondy and Mala Sen and many more.
Join members of the Race Today Collective past contributors and those today who take inspiration from Race Today, to launch the first book-length anthology of articles – Here to Stay, Here to Fight.
Organised by the Darcus Howe Legacy Group in collaboration with Lambeth Libraries."
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
what does it have in it by bobby sands?Although it was not possible to discuss the work of Brixton-based Marxist-Leninst Political Activitst, Writer and Broadcaster Darcus Howe within the context of the Brixton discussion forum ... it is possible to discuss it in Brixton !:
'Here to Stay, Here to Fight' launch event at the Tate Library, Brixton, hosted by Lambeth Libraries, Friday 25 October 2019, 7.00 p.m., Brixton Library, London (UK), Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JQ
"From 1974 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Brixton based Race Today Collective, was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured contributions from some of the leading voices of the time: C. L. R. James, Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Rodney, Bobby Sands, Farrukh Dhondy and Mala Sen and many more.
Join members of the Race Today Collective past contributors and those today who take inspiration from Race Today, to launch the first book-length anthology of articles – Here to Stay, Here to Fight.
Organised by the Darcus Howe Legacy Group in collaboration with Lambeth Libraries."
brixtonscot
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If I remember correctly , it was a short story that Bobby Sands submitted to Race Today while he was in Long Kesh , which RT published around time he was on hunger strike, 1981
I remember Gerry Adams going to visit Darcus Howe at Race Today office around 1983
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
Although it was not possible to discuss the work of Brixton-based Marxist-Leninst Political Activitst, Writer and Broadcaster Darcus Howe within the context of the Brixton discussion forum ... it is possible to discuss it in Brixton !:
'Here to Stay, Here to Fight' launch event at the Tate Library, Brixton, hosted by Lambeth Libraries, Friday 25 October 2019, 7.00 p.m., Brixton Library, London (UK), Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JQ
"From 1974 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Brixton based Race Today Collective, was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured contributions from some of the leading voices of the time: C. L. R. James, Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Rodney, Bobby Sands, Farrukh Dhondy and Mala Sen and many more.
Join members of the Race Today Collective past contributors and those today who take inspiration from Race Today, to launch the first book-length anthology of articles – Here to Stay, Here to Fight.
Organised by the Darcus Howe Legacy Group in collaboration with Lambeth Libraries."
Blue plaque for Darcus Howe on Brixton’s Railton Road
ska invita
back on the other side
i was on Railton Road the other day by the adventure playground....there are lots of good text boards up on that fenced wall giving info about railton road residents past including lots of Darcus and the history of Race Today - worth taking the time to read them all - takes a good 10 minutes or so Id say,
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because my memory seems to pull up whether people are alive or dead a couple of seconds before remembering who they are (were).GarveyLives
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The biographers of the late Darcus Howe say that following "a ten-year search", they have now found "never-before-heard" audio of his closing speech at the 1971 Mangrove Nine trial:
Darcus Howe’s historic Mangrove Nine trial speech unearthed after 50 Years
It is unclear whether, and if so, when anyone else will hear it.
Darcus Howe’s historic Mangrove Nine trial speech unearthed after 50 Years
It is unclear whether, and if so, when anyone else will hear it.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
I somehow missed this thread at the time, but a belated RIP. As posted on Small Axe (Steve McQueen mini-series) it was a privilege to get to meet him at anarchist bookfair some years ago now. I seem to recall @TopCat in quite deep discussion with him over a pint!
