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Why did they have to rain on our party?
Share/Bookmark On Tuesday 23 April 2013, at about 3.00pm, serious youth violence in London claimed two lives, that of Derek Boateng who turned 16 that very day and of his 15 year old assailant (who cannot be named for legal reasons). Derek was stabbed to within an inch of his life on the 393 bus
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A tribute to Prince Joseph Lincoln Burke-Monerville
Share/BookmarkThe following address was delivered at Joseph Burke-Monerville‘s funeral. Condolences to John and Linda, Joseph’s parents and Jonathan and David, his brothers and all of the Burke-Monerville extended family. If I were to name you all, we’d be here till 6.00 o’clock… tomorrow morning. I have witnessed close at hand your pain, your hurt and
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Gus John joins Jayne Cortez celebration
Share/BookmarkIt was a huge honour to be invited to join Jayne Cortez’s friends and fellow poets, writers and performers at the celebration of her life in New York on Wednesday, 6 February 2013. The celebration took place in a most fitting venue, the Great Hall of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and
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Jayne Cortez: one last tribute
Share/BookmarkWe mourn our sister’s passing and give the Creator thanks for her purposeful and inspirational life that enriched us so very much and made us so much stronger and more resolute in struggle. She was in every sense a kindred spirit and a clarion voice, making the medium of poetry work in ways that many
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Jayne Cortez: A Star is Dimmed
Share/BookmarkIt is with profound sadness that I write about the passing of Jayne Cortez, globally renowned poet and cultural activist and a dear friend of the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books and its successor, the George Padmore Institute. I was a member of the Book Fair organizing committee and a
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